School of Music Audio Department Sound Recordings, 1945-2018 | The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music

Title: School of Music Audio Department Sound Recordings, 1945-2018

Series Number: 12/5/64

Acquired: 03/07/2013. Originally obtained from the Music and Performing Arts Library on March 7, 2013. A second set of recordings, Series 9, was found within the Music and Performing Arts library in 2014 and were transferred to the Sousa Archives on August 9, 2015 and December 7, 2015. Additional reel-to-reel recordings of the 1970 and 1971 performances of the University of Illinois Opera Group and 1971 performances of the John Wustman studio were transferred to the Sousa Archives from the Library's Audio Preservation Unit on August 18, 2016. Recordings of the University wind band and men's glee club tapes were transferred from the the University Press Building on September 26, 2017, and a third addition of reel-to-reel tapes from the Music and Performing Arts Library was transferred to the Center on May 1, 2018. The CD-R and DVD sound recordings were transferred to the Sousa Archives from the School of Music Audio Department on October 26, 2023. Additional CD-Rs and 1/4" reel-to-reel tapes were transferred to the Sousa Archives from the Department on November 14, 2023.

Volume: 334.25 cubic feet

Arrangement

Organized in thirteen series:

Series 1) University of Illinois Ensembles is arranged by call numbers as originally assigned by the Music and Performing Arts Library, which begin with a MO number or Music Archive Tape number. All items included within this series that do not have identifying numbers are arranged chronologically at the end.

Series 2) Faculty Recitals is arranged by call numbers as originally assigned by the Music and Performing Arts Library, which begin with a MO number or Music Archive Tape number. All items included within this series that do not have identifying numbers are arranged chronologically at the end.

Series 3) Student Recitals is arranged by call numbers as originally assigned by the Music and Performing Arts Library, which begin with a MO number or Music Archive Tape number. All items included within this series that do not have identifying numbers are arranged chronologically at the end.

Series 4) Festival of Contemporary Arts, 1953-1978 is arranged chronologically.

Series 5) Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra is arranged by call numbers as originally assigned by the Music and Performing Arts Library, which begin with a MO number or Music Archive Tape number. All items included within this series that do not have identifying numbers are arranged chronologically at the end.

Series 6) Convocations, Symposia, Forums and Guest Recitals is arranged by call numbers as originally assigned by the Music and Performing Arts Library, which begin with a MO number or Music Archive Tape number. All items included within this series that do not have identifying numbers are arranged chronologically at the end.

Series 7) Special Requests and Donations is arranged chronologically, materials at the end of the series are arranged by call number beginning with the letter "R".

Series 8) Card Catalogs is arranged by call numbers as originally assigned by the Music and Performing Arts Library, which begin with a MO number or Music Archive Tape number. All items included within these series that do not have identifying numbers are arranged chronologically at the end of the series. Note: Cards include all extant cards from the Music and Performing Arts Library that correspond to the recordings; cards marked "Withdrawn" indicate tapes that were deaccessioned based on their being duplicates or on other appraisal decisions.

Series 9) Transcription Discs has been arranged chronologically rather than by record label number because several of the original label numbers duplicate, many are missing, many appear out of order, and the record labels changed in early 1949 from a four digit label (ex. 5000/5001) to a single digit label (ex. 1/2).

Series 10) DAT Sound Recordings is arranged chronologically.

Series 11) F1 Audio and Betamax Video Recordings is arranged chronologically.

Series 12) CD-R and DVD Sound Recordings, 1951-2009 is arranged by item number as originally assigned by the School of Music Audio Department, and is largely, though not consistently, chronological by recording date. Some cases include duplicate recordings of concerts, each assigned a unique item number despite sharing the same archival number. Some recordings dated prior to 2000 are noted as either remastered copies, reel-to-reel transfers, and DAT to CD-R transfers.

and Series 13) Rex Anderson Master Recordings, 1977-1991 is arranged alphabetically by the performer's surname.

Creator(s)

Administrative History of Creating Unit

The School of Music purchased its first recording equipment in 1948 (University of Illinois, 1948). Since then, the School of Music Audio Department has provided recording services for student, faculty, and guest performers at University venues including Smith Music Hall, the Krannert Center for Performing Arts, and the Music Building Recording Studios (University of Illinois School of Music, 2013). Past Directors of the Audio Department include Jim Campbell, Carl Volkers (ca. 1950s-1976), Jeff Whimsatt (1976-78), and Rex Anderson (1978-2010). Following Anderson's retirement in 2010, audio engineers Frank Horger and Bill Demkov jointly managed the department until Demkov left the position in 2015. Horger then solely oversaw the recordings until 2020, when the management of the recordings was transferred to Graham Duncan. Duncan worked for the Audio Department as a part-time employee from 2002-2005 and 2007-2021, at which point he was appointed the full-time audio director.

The Festival of Contemporary Arts, first organized in 1948, included as part of its programming dance, theater, landscape architecture, music and an Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture. The Festival's music events included a variety of concerts, lectures, and workshops that were produced by University faculty and student ensembles, and guest composers and performers. The styles of new music performance incorporated into these festivals encompassed everything from contemporary orchestral, jazz, opera, and choral music to new forms of performance art. Initially held annually, the five- to six-week festival of performing and studio arts became a biennial event after 1953. Budgetary concerns led to the effective end of the festival after 1971, however, a related Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts was held in 1978.

Sources:

University of Illinois. (May 22, 1948). Transactions of the Board of Trustees, p. 1121.

University of Illinois School of Music. "Audio and Video Services", http://music.illinois.edu/resources/audio-and-video-services, accessed June 27 2013.

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