NEWLY RESTORED TREASURES FROM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ARCHIVES presented by Seth B. Winner

The New York Chapter of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections presents their November 2018 program: NEWLY RESTORED TREASURES FROM THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ARCHIVES Presented by Seth B. Winner The following video presentation is about the second recently completed GRAMMY Foundation Grant project to digitize and preserve 52 hours from fragile glass-based and aluminum-based lacquer coated discs documenting 36 unique live radio broadcasts from 1937 to 1951. We will discuss the project challenges and successes, talk about the significance of these broadcasts, and listen to excerpts from this newly accessible cache of recordings not heard since their original broadcast over the CBS network six to eight decades ago. The discs, which hold the only surviving audio records of these particular concerts, were carefully conserved, digitized and restored by Seth B. Winner Studios. After remaining untouched and thought lost for several decades, these recordings will now available to the public to listen to via the Philharmonic Archives and the New York Public Library for Performing Arts. Among the artists to be heard are pianists Vladimir Horowitz, Artur Rubinstein and Lucas Foss; violinist Nathan Milstein; conductors John Barbirolli, Artur Rodzinski, Dmitri Mitropoulos, Leonard Bernstein, Bruno Walter and Victor deSabata. SETH B. WINNER has earned three Grammy Nominations and two honorable mentions from NARAS for remastering projects for the New York Philharmonic and two Duke Ellington compilations that appeared on MCA/GRP and BMG. Remastering clients include the Minnesota Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera, Sony Music, Pavilion Records, Ltd., Bridge, Crystal, Sheffield Labs and Universal Records. He founded Seth B. Winner Sound Studios in 1990. From 1996-2004, he was co-chair with Gary Galo of ARSC's Technical Committee and contributor to the CLIR Technical Report concerning analogue identification, conservation and preservation. As a sound engineer for over 30 years at the New York Public Library, he has supervised the preservation of many collections, for example, the Voice of America, the National Orchestral Association, the Little Orchestra Society, Roberta Peters, Henry Cowell, Vincent Persichetti, Otto Luening and Eubie Blake. Since 1988, Mr. Winner has also been the engineer responsible for initially preserving the Toscanini Collection, and as a result, was one of the engineers responsible for the release of the Maestro’s nearly complete commercial discography on BMG in 1992. In 2015 he gave a presentation at the NY AES Chapter concerning the discovery, digital preservation and restoration of an original set of lacquers made during the historic 1938 Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall Concert. He has been a member of the NY ARSC’s Steering Committee since its inception in 2008. Thanks to Barbara Haws, former Archivist and Gabryel Smith, Archives Manager of the New York Philharmonic for making this project possible, as well as hosting ARSC for this special meeting. THE ASSOCIATION FOR RECORDED SOUND COLLECTIONS (https://arsc-audio.org) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and study of sound recordings, in all genres of music and speech, in all formats, and from all periods. ARSC is unique in bringing together private individuals and institutional professionals—everyone with a serious interest in recorded sound. Videographer: Joseph Patrych; http://www.patrych.com/index.html Editor: James Wu; http://video.jameswu.nyc/