Some of the first-ever live recordings of music were under a recliner for years. Now, over a century after their creation, they’ve found a new home as part of the New York Public Library collection.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Lionel Mapleson, then the librarian at New York's Metropolitan Opera, did something new: He took an Edison"Home" model phonograph and recorded operas with an orchestra as they were being sung on stage.
"The Mapleson Cylinders, at least in terms of sound recording, are definitely among the most important sound documents of the 20th century," said Bob Kosovsky, a librarian in the music division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and an expert on early opera recordings."It recorded live performances at a time when people didn't think it was possible," he said.Some of the Mapleson Cylinders donated to the New York Public Library by the Mapleson family.
But then, last spring, the library bought an Endpoint Cylinder and Dictabelt Machine, invented by Nicholas Bergh.in April last year focused on how the machine worked, saying that it could digitize even broken cylinders with more clarity. And it mentioned how the library was excited to try to re-digitize the Mapleson Cylinders it owned to see if they could make them less noisy.
He also, said Wood, recorded"the day when Arturo Toscanini and Puccini came to his hotel room in the evening because they decided that act one of the operaThe librarians have been through about 20 of the journals so far, and there's not a lot about the recordings, though Kosovsky said it's clear that a lot of them were captured, not for posterity, but so his friends could hear themselves sing; many of them would never have heard their recorded voices otherwise.
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