The Sound of the Past, Present, and Future
On December 16, 1976, the musicians of the Cleveland Orchestra received a memo from the team at Advent Recording Company regarding an upcoming recording session. “A unique recording process will be used during these sessions,” wrote producer Robert Woods, “which …
Ohio music teacher Jack Renner began recording ensembles on as a hobby shortly after the start of his teaching career in Geneva, Ohio. In 1963, he left teaching to record full-time. Jack became one of about sixty franchisees of the …
On April 4, 1978 at Cleveland’s storied Severance Hall, pioneering wind ensemble conductor Frederick Fennell gave the downbeat for the first-ever digital recording session of a classical ensemble in the United States. The founders of Telarc Records, engineer Jack Renner …
The Cleveland Orchestra released their first commercial recording in 1924. It’s a fitting part of the orchestra’s distinguished history. As a tangent to our History of Telarc project, we’d like to share this gem of a timeline from the Cleveland …
Spoiler alert: they’re not all 78 RPM.
Michael Bishop, recording engineer for Five/Four Productions and formerly with Telarc, passed away March 29, 2021…
From two of the original masters of the field, a digital archive of field recordings from around the world. Browse by place, by instrument, by culture, and more. https://archive.culturalequity.org/
