Past meetings of the Society
July 2013

July 2013 Meeting

NOTE TIME, DATE AND LOCATION
Date: Monday, July 22, 2013
Time: Punctually at 4:00 - 6:30 PM
Place: Symphony Hall Boston, 301 Massachusetts Ave., Boston,MA

Featured Guest: Bridget P. Carr, Senior Archivist - Boston Symphony Orchestra
Topic: A Tour of the BSO's Archives
SPACE IS RESTRICTED. ONE RESERVATION/BAS MEMBER. PLEASE RSVP BY E-MAIL TO:
robertl_miller@yahoo.com

In your e-mail let me know if you have a favorite BSO performance. Given enough lead time, it may be
possible to play your selection prior to the tour. Confirmation of your RSVP will include instructions where to enter Symphony Hall.

About the Archives: (from BSO.org)

The Boston Symphony Orchestra Archives houses printed programs, press clippings, posters, photographs (and other memorabilia), administrative files, and an extensive collection of radio broadcast tapes of concerts and commercial recordings.

The audio/visual collection makes up about one-third of the Archives' entire holdings and contains commercial recordings and radio broadcast master tapes of the BSO, the Pops, and the Boston Symphony Chamber Players. Also included are recordings of Tanglewood Music Center student concerts dating back to the mid-1970s and a collection of nearly 100 oral history interviews with retired orchestra members or their surviving family members. The Archives also houses a collection of films and broadcast-quality videotapes dating back to the 1940s.

Special Note about the directions that follow:
Be aware the tour is taking place during the afternoon commute and just prior to a Red Sox game at 7PM that evening. Expect traffic to be awful with parking expensive and difficult to find. Public Transport (with the exception of the Mass. Ave (#1) bus) is the better option. For those who must come by auto, car-pooling would be the cost-beneficial alternative.


 

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