Recordings of radio broadcast performances of jazz music of the 1950s and 60s by artists such as Earl Hines, Louis Armstrong, Muggsy Spanier, Jack Teagarden, Harry James, Cal Tjader, and George Shearing at venues such as the Club Hangover in...
The Ambassador Auditorium Collection contains the files of the various organizational departments of the Ambassador Auditorium as well as audio and video recordings. The materials cover the entire time period of April 1974 through May 1995 when the Ambassador Auditorium...
Tape recordings of works by composer William Ames.
Various smaller collections related to the Ampex Corporation, the development of magnetic recording on tape, and stereophonic sound.
The Mario Ancona collection (8 linear feet; 17 boxes) includes photographs, memorabilia, sound recordings and miscellaneous documents related to the baritone's career, and to the performing arts and artists around the turn of the 20th century.
Bob Arnold was a popular music historian and collector. His collection consists of his research and correspondence, and includes scrapbooks, program notes, interviews on cassette, and compilations on open reel tape drawn from his music collection.
Miscellaneous tape recordings, mostly small donations, that span the history of the Archive of Recorded Sound.
Transfers and copies on optical media, radio programs, research materials, transcripts, scrapbooks, and other miscellany from the shelves of the Archive of Recorded Sound.
The collection consists of performing artist and other celebrity portraits compiled from numerous donations during the first 60 years of the Archive of Recorded Sound (1958-2018). The majority of photographs in this collection were removed from the ARS Subject File...
Legacy collection of concert programs, news clippings, correspondence, promotional materials, reports, academic papers, and miscellaneous ephemera compiled during the first 60 years of the Archive of Recorded Sound (1958-2018). Materials in this collection were compiled for internal reference by the...
The W.H. Auden Collection of Sound Recordings consists of vinyl LPs once owned by poet W. H. Auden and his partner Chester Kallman. Included are copies of The Rake's Progress (Auden and Kallman wrote the libretto), Auden reading four poems...
37 off-air recordings, primarily of the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra in the 1950s.
The Burt Bales Collection consists of unpublished recordings on audiocassettes, open reel tapes, and transcription discs featuring the jazz pianist, Burt Bales (1917-1989). Also included are correspondence, photographs, festival and concert programs, logbooks, and newspaper clippings pertaining to Burt Bales...
This collection contains material amassed by Erik Bauersfeld relating to his work with the Bay Area Radio Drama (BARD) organization dating from 1961-2016. Included are organizational records, reseach materials, correspondence, scripts and sound and moving image recordings of various BARD...
This collection contains photographs and ephemera amassed by photographer Lynn Beldner pertaining to the Punk and New Wave music scenes in the San Francisco area, dating from 1980-1984. Comprised primarily of music perfomances, artists covered include Iggy Pop, Dead Kennedys,...
Material related to two 1979 Bell Telephone Laboratories albums titled "Early Hi-Fi ; Wide Range and Stereo Recordings Made by Bell Telephone Laboratories in the 1930s - Leopold Stokowski Conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra, 1931-1932."
This collection contains material amassed by American flautist Frances Blaisdell dating from 1843-2005. Included are music scores, sound recordings, scrapbooks and personal books pertaining the life and musical career of Blaisdell....
Open reel tapes containing off-air recordings from the late 1940s through the mid-50s, particularly of Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra.
The collection consists of Bonelli's letters, documents, photographs, programs, publications, scores, scrapbooks, audiovisual materials, posters and newspaper clippings.
This collection contains material by musician Steve Briscoe relating to his Punk bands Clown Alley, The Pseudos and The Bruces, dating from 1979-1983.
The Nate Brown Western Sound Archive Collection consists of unpublished recordings on open reel tape of orchestral music from the 1940s through 1960s, with an emphasis on conductorship.
The collection's 210 tapes are recordings of the yearly Carmel summer concerts conducted by Sandor Salgo. The concerts' repertoire consist primarily of Johann Sebastian Bach's music and his contemporaries, and secondarily of Renaissance, Romantic and 20th century music....
Open reel tape recordings produced in a study on speech sound production in children.
Fifteen open reel tapes produced by the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade in 1964 containing lectures and panel discussions from a workshop held in Washington, D.C.
In 1857, immigrants coming from the Dalmatian Coast to the San Francisco Bay Area formed the Slavonic Illyric Mutual and Benevolent Society in San Francisco. After a few changes in the name of the organization over the years, it moved...
Materials documenting virtually every stage of Crooks career.
The Happy Jazz Band was formed in 1962 by Jim Cullum with his son, Jim Cullum, Jr. in San Antonio, Texas. Devoted to jazz from between the World Wars, the Happy Jazz Band was perhaps the foremost exponent of Dixieland...
This collection consists of Duo-Art piano rolls once curated by Josef Hofmann, pianist and director of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, from 1926 to 1938. His performances of Beethoven, Chopin, and his own compositions are included. Other notable...
The Charles Daniels Sheet Music Collection principally contains sheet music of works either composed by Daniels, published under his given name or one of his pseudonyms, notably Neil Moret, or works published by one of the many publishers Daniels was...
The John and Lois Davies Collection of Monterey Jazz Festival Posters consists of four (4) dry mounted Monterey Jazz Festival posters dating from 1980, 1982, 1983, and 1987 from the estate of John (Jack) and Lois Davies.
In 1983 Susie Davis hosted a radio program titled, "Sudden Exposure" on KTIM-FM. The radio show featured unsigned San Francisco Bay Area bands. This collection is comprised of recordings of her radio show and demo recordings and/or small run independent...
Unpublished live performances of opera on open reel tape, from the collection of Luryier Diamond.
The Duvall Hecht Books on Tape Collection features print materials related to the operation of Books on Tape Incorporated (1975-2001). These materials include extensive correspondence from Duvall Hecht to partners, competitors, journalists, publishers, and aspiring narrators. Also featured are marketing...
The Dorothy Eisler Collection consists of live recordings of classical music from approximately 1964 to 1970.
This collection is comprised of Jazz interviews and features compiled by Reese Erlich dating from 1994-2017....
Fagan's collection consists primarily of reel to reel tapes (1033). The rest of the materials are music memorabilia, Fagan's own writings and documents concerning the United Nations.
Opera and classical music performances on open reel tape, all recorded from radio broadcasts by Robert A. Fantus.
The Alan Farley Collection consists primarily of recordings made for the radio program Book Talk recorded on audio cassette tapes, digital audio tapes and compact discs. Book Talk airs on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco, California, though some of...
This collection consists of commercially-released audio recordings created by the independent record company Fidelity Sound Recordings (FSR) based in Redwood City, California. The predominant musical genre featured is marching band music performed by university bands, bands affiliated with the Salvation...
Open reel tapes recorded by Richard Finnie, including Bechtel Corporation film soundtrack material featuring traditional music and sound effects from Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere, and broadcasts and live performances of classical music, jazz, folk, and other types of...
Collection contains recordings of Kirsten Flagstad and Waldemar Alme in performances and interviews.
Home-recorded videocassettes of television broadcasts of opera from the Great Performances series.
The Fragale collection consists primarily of scores and recordings, and secondarily of programs, photographs, articles and materials on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?s libretto.
The Girard-Farwig Collection consists unpublished recordings of opera, vocal and orchestral music from the collection of Victor Girard and Stan Farwig.
This collection is comprised of material amassed by jazz author and San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation co-founder Jim Goggin dating from 1960-2010. It contains reserach files, recorded sound, correspondence, clippings and other ephemera amassed by Jim Goggin in relation to...
Open reel tape recordings of the "Annals of Jazz" radio program produced and hosted by historian and educator Richard Hadlock, broadcast on KCSM, San Mateo between 1982 and 1991. The interviews in the collection feature many Jazz luminaries at the...
The 23 posters in this collection are official hand screen printed Monterey Jazz Festival Posters created by Earl Newman and purchased at the festival respective to each poster year. The poster titles were sourced from the Earl Newman Prints company...
This collection contains the master reel-to-reel audio tapes from the personal collection of composer John Haussermann. They capture live performances of his compositions during his lifetime and include performances by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, conductors Eugene Goossens and Eugene Ormandy,...
The collection contains primarily sound recordings of performances of Jascha Heifetz, but it also includes recordings of other artists, some of whom were collaborators with Heifetz, as well as one recording of his teacher, Leopold Auer. There are 924 recordings...
Tapes and digitally transferred files from the early years of American tape recording. Transfers were done by engineer and researcher Richard L. Hess. Digital files are only available at Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound.
Includes correspondence and research notes related to Hickling's discography of Lehmann performances; documemts and articles; and various sound recordings.
Recordings of jazz, swing, and popular music of the 1940's on audiocassette, including many obscure or hard-to-find performances and interviews.
A small collection of science-related recordings donated by Stanford biologist Richard Holm. Includes tapes from the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Dallas, Texas, and broadcasts from the Pacifica Tape Archive.
The Howe Collection of Musical Instrument Literature documents the development of the music industry, mainly in the United States. The largest known collection of its kind, it contains material about the manufacture of pianos, organs, and mechanical musical instruments. The...
The Herbert Humphrey Collection consists of 43 open reel tapes, the majority of which bear copies of commercially-released jazz and popular music. However, at least thirteen reels are of unusual broadcast material, including a series of San Francisco performances by...
The Issei Oral History Project in Watsonville was created by historian Kazuko Nakane in preparation for the book Nothing Left in my Hands : The Issei of a Rural California Town, 1900-1942. Interviews were conducted by Nakane from 1978 to...
The Arnold Jacobsen Collection consists of open reel tapes of 78-era popular vocal music and accompanying documentation from the collection of record dealer and store owner Arnold Jacobsen.
Seventy linear feet of magnetic and optical sound recordings on 35mm film stock, featuring production music and sound effects produced by the Jam Handy Organization of Detroit, Michigan for industrial, educational and promotional films.
The Kibler-Morgan collection contains their annotated scores, photographs, programs, scrapbooks, correspondence, newspaper clippings, books and recordings.
The Don Kinch Collection consists of 26 open reel audio recordings of jazz musician Don Kinch.
232 open reel tapes of radio advertisments played on San Francisco radio in late 1986.
Piano music on open reel tape.
The KSFO collection consists of audiovisual material and ephemera from this San Francisco radio station's years owned by Golden West Broadcasting, 1956-1983. KSFO was known for their news and sports coverage, as well as the voice talents of such personalities...
The KZSU Collection consists of recordings of a Stanford faculty lecture series sponsored by Century 21 realtors in 1968, originally broadcast on student radio station KZSU.
Four framed records originally presented to Anna Lexmond for selling RCA Special Products compilations.
Open reel tape recordings from approximately 1952 through 1980, including various performances from Stanford University, as well as pipe organ music, live jazz and big band music, the Monterey Jazz Festival, the Carmel Bach Festival, and a steel drum band...
Off-air radio and television recordings of classical music, jazz, and dramatic programs, as well as Love family home recordings.
The Jack Lund Collection contains personal papers of Jack Lund as well as numerous newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, and music books. It also contains Lund's collection of classical music on 78 rpm discs, mostly in albums, 33 1/3 rpm...
The William C. Lynch Dennis Brain Collection consists of commercial and unpublished orchestral and solo recordings on audiocassette, compact disc, 33rpm long play and 78rpm records, VHS video cassette, and DVD, all featuring the world renowned British horn player, Dennis...
Includes correspondence dealing with the Metropolitan Opera Regional Auditions; personal papers which consist of promotional documents, and biographical and/or pedagogical writings; newspaper and magazine clippings; 22 annotated scores; 7 programs; opera snakes; about 350 photographs; 12 scrapbooks; 285 transcription discs,...
The Hall Martin Collection consists of open reel tapes associated with Stanford's Speech and Drama Department, and features recordings of iconic speeches from 20th century political and historical figures, as well as proceedings from the 1961 Northwest Drama Conference held...
Interviews with avant-garde composers by musicologist Olivia Mattis.
Open reel tapes by electronic music composer Richard Maxfield containing some of his most well-known works.
The James Meagher Collection consists of eleven 10.5" open reel audiotape recordings. The recordings include 1960s recordings of the Oscar Peterson Trio (Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, and Ed Thigpen), a KPFA recording of Count Ory, and The Skybirds.
The collection contains primarily sound recordings of performances of Yehudi Menuhin as violin soloist, with piano accompaniment by Hephzibah Menuhin, or with orchestral accompaniment. Most of the recordings are test pressings made between 1938 and 1950. The first box also...
The Meridian Gallery Collection documents the activities of the Meridian Gallery, a non-profit exhibition and perrformance space, which was founded in San Francisco by Anne Brodzky and Anthony Williams. The collection consists of audio and visual recordings, photographs, slides, negatives,...
Unpublished opera productions on videocassette, from the collection of Greg Merrill Fe de Montreve.
Various metal parts used in the production of phonograph records, including masters, mothers and stampers from multiple donors. Primarily parts for records issued by Music Library Recordings and the Sir Thomas Beecham Society.
Originally a set of circulating open reel tapes available at Stanford University's J. Henry Meyer Memorial Library. The tapes contain a variety of non-musical material and include lectures by Stanford faculty and class audio reserves (including commercially distributed tapes) of...
Two hundred eighty-nine (289) open-reel tape recordings of performances from the Midsummer Mozart Festival, together with programs and tape logs, from 1975 to 1995.
The collection contains the archives of the Monterey Jazz Festival from 1958 to the present. It primarily consists of unpublished recordings and videos of festival concerts, interviews and panel discussions in various formats, including sound tape reels, sound cassettes, videotapes,...
Rare recordings on custom vinyl pressings of opera and Western art music, donated by collector and researcher William Moran.
The collection focuses on the compositions and other documents created by Dexter Morrill during his career as a musician and composer. Items include correspedonce; manuscript scores; published scores, sketches and documentation for computer compositions; concert programs; concert tour documents; project...
Recorded works from American academic electronic music studios, originally submitted to the New Arts Forum series of concerts at San Francisco State University and elsewhere. The Forum was produced by Herbert Bielawa and D. Gareth Loy in 1972.
The Archive of Recorded Sound's Non-Commercial Disc Collections consist of over 10,000 disc recordings from a variety of donors, the majority of which are either broadcast transcriptions or instantaneous recordings. None were ever available for sale to the general public,...
Evangelical sermons, prayers, and hymnal recordings on Compact Disc, originally broadcast from 1937 to 1968 on the radio program Old Fashioned Revival Hour.
The Nancy Packer Collection consists of two sets of recordings: an interview with Herbert Packer, and lectures by Leon Lipson. Both were taped at Stanford University in 1969.
Polish language radio broadcasts on open reel tape, produced by Polskie Radio i Telewizja and distributed to the Polish Arts and Culture Foundation in the United States. Programs include interviews with Polish scholars, filmmakers and artists, and discussions of Polish...
Preservation master transfers on tape from a variety of sources.
Materials related to the pianist's career.
The Roy Pryor Collection consists of off-air recordings of local and network radio in Menlo Park, California between 1937 and 1949. Pryor used a home recording machine to make aluminum and lacquer discs of broadcasts, mostly capturing war-related news and...
Rare opera and vocal recordings on open reel tape, from the collection of Irwin Rabinov.
The collection pertains to Dave Radlauer, Bob Mielke, Dick Oxtot, Earl Scheelar and other musicians involved in the San Francisco Bay Area jazz music scene from the 1940s to the 2000s. The materials are composed primarily of sound recordings, video...
The Record Catalog Collection consists of published catalogs and other advertising materials issued by a wide variety of recording companies from around the world. In addition to catalogs, the materials include catalogs, booklets, pamphlets, magazines, and loose sheets published between...
The Ragtime Machine was a weekly one-hour radio program about ragtime music, produced and hosted by David Reffkin and broadcast on the University of San Francisco's station KUSF. The collection contains all programs from 1981 to 2007, as well as...
Files and recordings on audiotape from Howard Rhines, a composer, announcer and program director at Los Angeles classical radio station KFAC.
Computer tapes containing data from the Rigler and Deutsch Index of Recorded Sound (RDI), a union catalog of 78-rpm disc holdings from several major research libraries, including the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound.
Since 1989, educates and entertains public radio listeners with a program devoted to celebrating traditional jazz and popular music of the pre-war era, featuring performances from the Jim Cullum Jazz Band and guests. This collection contains copies of all the...
The Judith Rosen Collection consists of unpublished recordings on audiotape featuring performances, lectures, and radio programs concerning classical music, with a particular focus on twentieth century composition, as well as women musicians and composers.
The Doug Russell Collection Of Ambassador Recitals consists of recordings from the the public radio program "In Recital at Ambassador," produced by KUSC in Los Angeles. The program featured live performances of principally classical music from the Ambassador Auditorium in...
The collection consists of 2018 slides of jazz musicians; jazz documentaries and interviews with famous jazz musicians on audio tapes; a well-written and entertaining autobiography; course syllabi; two articles and miscellaneous typescripts by Sales; and writings about him....
Papers and recordings from American conductor and composer Gerhard Samuel (1924-2008), particularly from his years conducting the Oakland Symphony, Minneapolis Symphony, and University of Cincinnati.
The collection comprehensively covers the career of Turk Murphy and was assembled primarily by Jim Goggin and other members of the San Francisco Traditional Jazz Foundation. Similar sub-collections of materials about other traditional jazz musicians were added to this core...
Sound recordings from Stanford University professor and choral director Harold C. Schmidt (1910-1993), including performances from the Stanford University Chorus, Choir, and Chamber Chorale.
The James Schwabacher Collection consists of sound recordings, correspondence, scores, scrapbooks, clippings, programs, teaching material and other papers from San Francisco philanthropist and lyric tenor James Schwabacher.
The Hank Schwager Collection consists of off-air recordings of Martin Williams' "Art of Jazz" radio program and an informal interview with Andre Previn from 1959. Both were recorded by Hank Schwager.
Off-air recordings of opera performances, mostly from the San Francisco Opera, from 1973 to 1975.
Lecture recordings and transcripts from the S.O.S. Program, a pioneering divorce therapy group founded in Palo Alto, California in 1963 by Sally Spray (now Sally Moltzen).
The Soviet All-Union Radio Committee Collection consists of excerpts of classical music, opera, and folk music on tape, all by Russian composers and performed by Russian musicians, from the late 1940s and early 50s. The tapes were used in radio...
Collection includes typed and handwritten correspondence, signed photographs from persons prominent in the classical music world, a typed script for a speech on Toscanini, and a limited-edition copy of Arthur Schnabel's "Reflections on Music," signed by the author. Audio tapes...
Tape recordings of the Stanford Fleet Street Singers, an all-male a capella group founded at Stanford University in 1981.
Studio master recordings from the Stanford Jazz Orchestra.
Master tapes for three albums from the Stanford Marching Band, as well as a live recording and one 45 rpm 7" EP from 1967.
The Stanford Music Broadcast Tapes Collection consists of 172 open reel tapes of off-air recordings from 1951 to 1969, the majority of which are of broadcast performances by the NBC Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra,...
The Stanford Program for Recordings in Sound was a project begun by English Department graduate student Mike Stillman that sponsored readings by poets and novelists either in residence or visiting Stanford. These readings were professionally recorded, and a series of...
The Stanford Speech Collection consists of audio recordings on open reel tape of speeches, lectures, and panel discussions at or sponsored by Stanford University from the 1950s through the 70s.
Historic music and speech recordings on open reel tape, made on the campus of Stanford University.
The Strong Museum Collection contains piano, organ, player piano, and player organ patents in bound volumes from the Aeolian, Amphion, and Mason & Hamlin companies. These date from circa 1825 to 1926 and are organized by dates and alphabetical indexes....
Open reel tape recordings of KZSU radio broadcasts and musical performances by Stanford University performing groups recorded by Robert Suffel while a student at Stanford and News Director at KZSU in the early to mid 1960's. Of interest is a...
Recordings of interviews with prominent figures in the audio and sound recording industry conducted by John Sunier for his radio program Audiophile Audition.
Audio tapes of spoken word and musical performances, largely related to Bertolt Brecht and radical theater of the 1960s.
The Blanche Thebom Collection has three major components. The first is scores, correspondence, publicity, production notes, and media from her post-Met career as teacher and director. Secondly, there are published and unpublished sound recordings of Thebom. Lastly, the collection also...
The collection contains primarily sound recordings of performances of Lawrence Tibbett from recording sessions that occurred between 1929 and 1945. Some of the recordings are 12" vinyl 33 1/3 rpm microgroove discs, but most are 78 rpm shellac discs and...
The University Of California, Santa Cruz Contemporary Classical Collection consists of live performances of classical music, mostly by twentieth century composers, on open reel tape. For the most part, recordings date from the 1960s and 70s, and include rehearsals, radio...
The items that comprise this collection are interviews that Richie Unterberger conducted in support of his many books, articles, and liner notes. The interviews primarily cover rock music of the 1960s and 1970s.
Music manuscripts, programs, correspondence, documents, recordings, and ephemera related to Marty Walker's career as a professional clarinet and bass clarinet player with the California E.A.R. Unit, the Robin Cox Ensemble, and as a soloist....
The Ed Wilkinson Collection consists of classical and opera performance broadcasts of the 1930s and 40s on open reel tape, the majority of which from the Standard Symphony Hour series.
Field recordings of environmental sounds from around the world, captured by hobbyist Jack Wolf.
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Collection contains oral history interviews on audiocassettes and reel-to-reel tapes, transcripts (full and excerpts), photographs, and supplemental materials and related monographs.
This collection contains recorded sound, photographs, music scores, promotional material, awards and other materials relating to the career of American jazz and blues singer Pat Yankee dating from 1953-2016.