to the Organ Library of the Boston Chapter, American Guild of Organists, located at the School of Theology on the campus of Boston University. The Organ Library is a repository of music written or transcribed for the pipe organ, as well as books pertaining to the history of organ music and organ performance. It includes the archives and papers of notable concert organists.
Boston AGO Radio Broadcasts, page 2
Following is the same list twice, first sorted by Performer, then by Composer. The lists are available as pdf files, or as excel files if you want to download them and be able to search them. Once you find the performer or composer and piece to which you want to listen, note the corresponding number in the left-most column. This number indicates the position of that recording within the long scroll of recordings below the lists – on the left above each “play bar”, in “[ ]”.
Before the numbered broadcasts is a narrative by Biggs, followed by two interviews of him, done by Doug Cooper for another radio broadcast (Iona College Conversations, in New Rochelle, NY).
The next items [currently items 1-4] in this list are broadcasts made by E. Power Biggs from Adolphus Busch Hall at Harvard University on the Aeolian-Skinner that was there at the time. They were originally recorded on 78 rpm discs, and then put on cassettes by the Library of Congress. These cassettes are now being digitized, and the files uploaded to this site. Editing to “knit together” the sides of the records, and to reduce noise has not yet been accomplished, but we hope to do so as time allows. These recordings are the sole property of the AGO Organ Library, and may not be recorded or used without permission, other than for private listening from our site.
The remaining items [starting with #5] are Radio Broadcasts that were aired on WCRB. There are 50 years of these broadcasts, in five different recording formats, to be digitized and put up to the site. A small sample is below, more will be added as time and staffing permits.
NOTICE: These recordings are the property of the Boston Chapter AGO and are for listening only; they may not be copied or disseminated in any format.
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George Lamphere – Methuen Memorial Music Hall, Methuen, MA