The New York Philharmonic today launched its Digital Archives, which include thousands of conducting scores, printed programs and some business records covering the period 1943 to 1970. This is the first stage of a project to digitise their entire archives, and is free to search and inspect on their website.
Daniel J.Wakin of the New York Times explored the resources.
Here's just one - the image above shows Leonard Bernstein’s marked-up scores of Mahler’s Ninth and Shostakovich’s Seventh, both in the archives. It's fascinating to see how Bernstein's mind worked - the latter (remember it's about the German invasion of the Soviet Union) is helpfully marked "tempo of prelude to Carmen."
Business records that long?
Woah, i never knew the New York Philharmonic had kept business records in the 1900's. Thats amazing, thanks for writing the article my friend. I learnt something today hehe.
Posted by: Pain | 05 February 2011 at 08:20 PM