Recordings of Concerts
The music files are in MP3 format. Just click on the [MP3] link following the title and your system will (hopefully) offer you the option of storing the file on your hard disk or opening it directly in a multi-media player. Please allow time for the file to load. Please don't expect High-Fidelity: most of these recordings were made with normal portable cassette players.
If you have any recordings at home, please contact us so we can share them here on the website (ask for some help from the site creators: just click here [link]). If you just happen to be a sound engineer or at least have some decent software and, unlike me, know what you're doing, PLEASE yell.
If anyone has any information about the whereabouts of Pop Schuler's ASMC tapes, maybe something could be done about getting some of them online ...
• W.S. Gilbert/Arthur Sullivan, Trial by Jury
[MP3]
Opera Workshop, 2nd session 1973, Elisabeth and Gregory Goida (Dir.),
cast/ensemble:
[Program pages 1/4]
[Program pages 2/3]
(recording: simple portable cassette player with a hand held
microphone from seat in audience – recording courtesy of David Urrows)
• Leonard G. Ratner, The Necklace (»A chamber opera buffa«)
[MP3]
Opera Workshop, 2nd session 1973, Elisabeth and Gregory Goida (Dir.),
cast/ensemble:
[Program pages 1/4]
[Program pages 2/3]
(recording: simple portable cassette player with a hand held
microphone from seat in audience – recording courtesy of David Urrows)
• L. v. Beethoven, Creatures of Prometheus (op. 43), Overture
[MP3]
Orchestra concert, 1st session(?) 1975, Murry Glass (cond.).
(recording: simple portable cassette player with a hand held
microphone from seat in audience)
• L. v. Beethoven, Symphony #2 (op. 36)
2nd mov. [MP3]
4th mov. [MP3]
Orchestra concert, 2nd session(?) 1975, Murry Glass (cond.).
(recording: simple portable cassette player with a hand held
microphone from seat in audience)
• Johannes Brahms, Symphony #2 (op. 73), D major
3rd mov. [MP3]
4th mov. [MP3]
Orchestra concert, 1st session(?) 1975, Murry Glass (cond.).
(recording: simple portable cassette player with a hand held
microphone from seat in audience)
• R. Schumann, Piano concerto (op. 43), a minor (1st mov.)
This is the live version, not the version from »The Amherst Sound for '75«
[MP3]
Orchestra concert, 2nd session(?) 1975, Andy Litton, piano, Murry Glass (cond.).
(recording: simple portable cassette player with a hand held
microphone from seat in audience)
• W. A. Mozart, Concerto for Bassoon (KV 191), B♭ major (1st mov.)
[MP3]Orchestra concert, 1st session(?) 1975, Fred Phillips, bassoon, Murry Glass (cond.). (recording: simple portable cassette player with a hand held microphone from seat in audience)
• J. Strauss, Die Fledermaus (op. 362), overture
[MP3]
Orchestra concert, 2nd session 1975, Murry Glass (cond.).
(recording: simple portable cassette player with a hand held
microphone from seat in audience)
• J. S. Bach, Magnificat (BWV 243)
Magnificat anima meum dominum [MP3]
Et exultavit spiritus meus (soprano: ??) [MP3]
Quia respexit humilitatem ancillae suae (soprano: ??) / Omnes generationes [MP3]
Quia fecit mihi magna (bass: Denis Markell) [MP3]
Fecit potentiam in brachio suo [MP3]
Sucepit Israel puerum suum [MP3]
Sicut locutus est ad patres nostros [MP3]
Gloria patri [MP3]
Chorale concert, 2nd session 1975, Ellen Barefield Johnston (cond.).
(recording: simple portable cassette player with a hand held
microphone from seat in audience, extreme hum filtered)
• Ch. Gounod, Marche funèbre d'une marionnette, (1872/79)
[MP3]
Orchestra concert, 2nd session 1975, Murry Glass (cond.).
(recording: simple portable cassette player with a hand held
microphone from seat in audience)
• Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky, Ouverture Solennelle, L'Année 1812, (op. 49)
This is the live version, not the version from »The Amherst Sound for '75«
[MP3]
Band concert, 2nd session 1975, Morton Gold (cond.).
(recording: simple portable cassette player with a hand held
microphone from seat in audience)
• Carl Maria von Weber, Concertino for clarinette, E♭ major (op. 26)
[MP3]
Band concert, 1st session(?) 1975, Morton Gold (cond.), Bela Schwartz (clarinette).
(recording: simple portable cassette player with a hand held
microphone from seat in audience)
• Richard Wagner, American Centennial March (1876)
[MP3]
Band concert, 1st session(?) 1975, Morton Gold (cond.).
(recording: simple portable cassette player with a hand held
microphone from seat in audience)