Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Hugh Fowell Great Performances Collection
- Dates:
- 1980s-1990s
- Abstract:
- Home-recorded videocassettes of television broadcasts of opera from the Great Performances series.
- Extent:
- 2 boxes : 25 videocassettes
- Language:
- Multiple languages
- Preferred citation:
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Hugh Fowell Great Performances Collection, ARS-0100. Courtesy of the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Twenty-five VHS videocassettes of opera taped from the Great Performances television series, primarily of the Metropolitan Opera and largely of works by Mozart, Verdi, and Wagner. All were recorded off-air by Hugh Fowell.
- Acquisition information:
- The Hugh Fowell Great Performances Collection was donated to the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound by Rosemary Fowell in 1999.
- Processing information:
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This finding aid was produced with generous financial support from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
- Rules or conventions:
- Prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 2011
- Date Encoded:
- Produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2011-05-18T11:09-0700
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research; material must be requested at least two business days in advance of intended use. Contact the Archive for assistance.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights reside with repository. Publication and reproduction rights reside with the creators or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Head Librarian of the Archive of Recorded Sound.
- Preferred citation:
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Hugh Fowell Great Performances Collection, ARS-0100. Courtesy of the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
- Location of this collection:
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Braun Music Center, 541 Lasuen MallStanford, CA 94305-3076, US
- Contact:
- (650) 723-9312