In Tuesday’s (7/9) Atlanta Journal-Constitution (subscription required), Bo Emerson writes that the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra “is busting at the seams with documents, recordings, photographs, film canisters, old videotapes, all threatening to explode out of the 300-square-foot closet in the Woodruff Arts center where the material is stored. … To keep this library of information from being lost to history, the symphony has begun a Kickstarter campaign to digitize some of the most vulnerable items. The modest $5,000 campaign would pay for studio time at a production facility that would, for example, transfer two recordings from archaic 1-inch videotape to a digital medium. … The archives include more than 800 audiovisual recordings on various formats, 500 audiotapes, 150 scrapbooks of clippings and old programs, thousands of photographs and slides, boxes of old artists contracts, minutes of board meetings, and other material. … ‘This is only the beginning of an extensive project to grow the ASO’s archives and celebrate the rich history of one of the nation’s finest orchestras,’ said Stanley E. Romanstein, president and CEO of the orchestra.”
Posted July 9, 2013
