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Please keep an eye on your mailboxes for the Fontes Artis Musicae Special Topics issue for 2014: When Music Goes Digital. It’s mailing now!
Seventy years ago today, Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp. From our colleagues at info-netz-musik we would like to tell you about an event today and present three books that bring music in Auschwitz in dialog with each other...
Es sah alles nach einem Desaster aus: Ein übernächtigter, schlechtgelaunter Pianist trifft bei der Probe im Konzertsaal (Kölner Oper) auf ein schrottreifes Instrument - doch dank des Klavierstimmers und des Einsatzes der erst 18jährigen Veranstalterin Vera Brandes, die den Star-Musiker nach Köln geholt hatte, findet das Konzert letztlich statt.
Last week, the British Library announced a startling fact that probably rings true for many people who work with sound recordings:
“Professional consensus is that we have approximately 15 years in which to save the UK’s sound collections before they become unplayable and are effectively lost. The solution is to digitally preserve them, but the scale of the task required is considerable and time is running out.”
A map of 350 Spanish public institutions (archives, libraries, and documentation centres) that hold fonds and heritage collections related to music (musical manuscripts, sound recordings and instrument collections).
