The following message has been posted by the Outreach Committee of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC).
---- 2008 ARSC PRESERVATION GRANTS AWARD ---- The ARSC Preservation Grants Committee is pleased to announce the recipient of the Grants for Preservation of Classical Music Historical Recordings. The program for these grants was founded in 2004 by Al Schlachtmeyer and the ARSC Board of Directors, to encourage and support the preservation of historically significant sound recordings of Western Art Music by individuals and organizations. -- The Cleveland Orchestra -- The Cleveland Orchestra was awarded $10,000 for its Archival Restoration Project. The project preserves the current sound archives of the orchestra, consisting of recordings of the Cleveland Orchestra subscription concerts, from 1965 through the present. These include the last five years of George Szell's tenure as Music Director, and the periods of leadership of Pierre Boulez, Lorin Maazel, Christoph von Dohnanyi, and Franz Welser-Most, the present director. Recordings made under guest conductors, such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Sir Colin Davis, Antal Dorati, Rafael Kubelik, Yehudi Menuhin, Andre Previn, Leopold Stokowski, and Klaus Tennstedt, are also part of the archives. For more information about the Grants for Preservation of Classical Music Historical Recordings, visit http://www.arsc-audio.org/preservationgrants.html. The deadline for receipt of applications for the next grant cycle is December 15, 2008.
