FROM THE INTERNATIONAL PIANO ARCHIVES: DELIGHTS AND DISASTERS presented by Donald Manildi

Описание: The New York Chapter of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections presents its December 2018 program:

FROM THE INTERNATIONAL PIANO ARCHIVES: DELIGHTS AND DISASTERS
Presented by Donald Manildi, Curator, International Piano Archives at Maryland (https://www.lib.umd.edu/ipam)

IPAM Curator Donald Manildi offers a personal selection of rare, unusual, intriguing, and eccentric piano recordings, along with insightful commentary.

DONALD MANILDI has been Curator of the International Piano Archives at Maryland (IPAM) since 1993. He holds degrees in piano performance from the University of Washington (Seattle) and the Cleveland Institute of Music. He has made many appearances as a pianist in a broad repertoire of over 200 works. His CD, “Pianists as Composers” was issued on the Elan label in 1999 to critical acclaim. He has published nearly 700 reviews, articles, and discographies in International Piano, International Record Review, American Record Guide, ARSC Journal, Music Library Association NOTES, Musical America, and elsewhere. He edited for publication by IPAM the essays of the late pianist/musicologist Jan Holcman (“Pianists: On and Off the Record”),in addition to compiling the discographies of Arthur Rubinstein, Shura Cherkassky, and Earl Wild that appear in their published biographies. He is also the producer of over 30 CD reissues of historic piano recordings, on the APR, Marston, IPAM, and Pearl labels. At IPAM his responsibilities include the development and preservation of existing collections, obtaining significant new materials, attending to visits and inquiries of pianists and scholars from around the world, and serving as guest lecturer for various University of Maryland music classes.

THE ASSOCIATION FOR RECORDED SOUND COLLECTIONS (https://arsc-audio.org) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and study of sound recordings, in all genres of music and speech, in all formats, and from all periods. ARSC is unique in bringing together private individuals and institutional professionals—everyone with a serious interest in recorded sound.

Videographer: Joseph Patrych; http://www.patrych.com/index.html
Editor: James Wu; http://video.jameswu.nyc/