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« Reply #15 on: 11:51:07, 22-08-2007 » |
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If you possibly can, I'd go with the "keep them" advice too. I'm a ridiculous hoarder of all this sort of stuff - it seems like ephemera now, but researching (as I do) music from 30-40 years ago old programme booklets, concert listings etc are really valuable (in an intellectual sense). I wish I could offer some space of my own, but I can't...
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Ian Pace
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« Reply #16 on: 11:56:50, 22-08-2007 » |
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If there was something equivalent to a New Notes for Vienna for the 1870s-1890s, and all the issues could be accessed, it would greatly facilitate areas of my own work.
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'These acts of keeping politics out of music, however, do not prevent musicology from being a political act . . .they assure that every apolitical act assumes a greater political immediacy' - Philip Bohlman, 'Musicology as a Political Act'
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« Reply #17 on: 16:37:07, 22-08-2007 » |
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Speaking as a hoarder from an early age, whoever said the words "just in case" sum me up absolutely. I hate to think what would happen in a fire with so much paper in my house but there are certain types of things I can't throw away - personal mail (even postcards and Christmas cards...), certainly concert programmes, documentation that seems somehow significant, plus the compulsive CD/ score buying and so much else... Good insulation though  |
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« Reply #18 on: 21:46:31, 22-08-2007 » |
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rm, you and the rest of you hoarders are a fire disaster waiting to happen to your neighbours. And your pets, probably. Get yourselves life-spring clean!  (I know I haven't.  ) |
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Ian Pace
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« Reply #19 on: 21:50:48, 22-08-2007 » |
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By those standards, martle, I think libraries would be seriously dangerous places.
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« Reply #20 on: 21:51:59, 22-08-2007 » |
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They are, Ian! Just ask Alkan. (The answer may be rather muffled.)
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« Reply #21 on: 21:59:05, 22-08-2007 » |
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They are, Ian! Just ask Alkan. (The answer may be rather muffled.)
The story is that he was reaching for the Talmud - but if you were crushed by a bookcase, don't you think you would be likely to drop the book you were holding, and it would get mixed up with all the other books thundering to the floor? |
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« Reply #22 on: 00:38:29, 23-08-2007 » |
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I understood the Alkan story had been discredited?
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« Reply #23 on: 08:18:26, 23-08-2007 » |
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As far as reaching for the Talmud is concerned, it certainly has.
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Milly Jones
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« Reply #25 on: 10:28:25, 23-08-2007 » |
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I've kept the programmes to every single concert I've ever been to in my whole life. (And that's one hell of a lot!) (For one hell of a long time!)  I keep them all in one cupboard specially designated for the purpose and hopefully they might be an interesting archive for my family when I'm gone. Failing that, they'll just sling them all in a tip....however I've never been able to part with them and because they're tucked away they're not intrusive. I'd hang on to them if I were you. |
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« Reply #26 on: 13:09:58, 23-08-2007 » |
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I'd keep all the programmes as well - I do!
I'm gradually being cured of my more extreme hoarding by my wife who managed to get me to throw out my old university notes earlier this year as well as hundreds of cassettes of radio recordings dating from the late 1980s up till 2004 (after I'd transferred everything to mp3 on the computer, obviously) - before anyone asks I did offer them to the local University music department but they never got back to me with an answer.
Of course, I'll never chuck out a shell unless it's totally broken and of no interest whatsoever!
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« Reply #27 on: 13:43:25, 23-08-2007 » |
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I've kept the programmes to every single concert I've ever been to in my whole life. (And that's one hell of a lot!) (For one hell of a long time!) I keep them all in one cupboard specially designated for the purpose ... ONE cupboard? You're not trying hard enough! Or is it a very very big cupboard? The hallway of my flat (one bedroom and no built-in storage) is lined with shelves on which I store my programmes (concert and opera) in chronological order. There are currently about 1200 of them and I've only been collecting since the latter part of the 1990's I add to them at the rate of about one shelf-ful a year - during Proms season alone I can fill a third of a shelf I keep meaning to archive them off electronically and then get rid of all except those which are signed or otherwise of sentimental value - I even bought a scanner for the purpose, but never got around to it. Somebody suggested that I start archiving them as they come in, then gradually work through the backlog. On the other hand,. perhaps I'm not so bad after all. I don't have many CDs - the vast majority of my listening is done at live concerts or the radio - and when I moved into my flat I did get rid of all my back copies of Opera magazine (and haven't regretted it). |
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« Reply #28 on: 14:58:54, 23-08-2007 » |
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ONE cupboard? You're not trying hard enough! Or is it a very very big cupboard? The hallway of my flat (one bedroom and no built-in storage) is lined with shelves on which I store my programmes (concert and opera) in chronological order. There are currently about 1200 of them and I've only been collecting since the latter part of the 1990's I add to them at the rate of about one shelf-ful a year - during Proms season alone I can fill a third of a shelf I keep meaning to archive them off electronically and then get rid of all except those which are signed or otherwise of sentimental value - I even bought a scanner for the purpose, but never got around to it. Somebody suggested that I start archiving them as they come in, then gradually work through the backlog. On the other hand,. perhaps I'm not so bad after all. I don't have many CDs - the vast majority of my listening is done at live concerts or the radio - and when I moved into my flat I did get rid of all my back copies of Opera magazine (and haven't regretted it). Oh my! What a collection that sounds! BTW, anyone who is considering divesting themselves of a large quantity of concert programmes may want to consider getting in touch with the Centre for Performance History at the RCM - http://www.cph.rcm.ac.uk/ - they might be able to find a good home for them. |
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Milly Jones
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« Reply #29 on: 16:26:22, 23-08-2007 » |
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I've kept the programmes to every single concert I've ever been to in my whole life. (And that's one hell of a lot!) (For one hell of a long time!) I keep them all in one cupboard specially designated for the purpose ... ONE cupboard? You're not trying hard enough! Or is it a very very big cupboard? It is a floor-to-ceiling cupboard and it is crammed full - tidily crammed but crammed nevertheless. I've actually just spilled out into the display cupboard in the lounge which currently houses my New Grove encyclopaedias and the bottom three cupboards are set to receive the next batch of programmes. |
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