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- Title
Found, and Lost: The Recorded Legacy of J. Walter DeVaux, Masonic Music Master.
- Authors
LEWIS, DAVID N.
- Abstract
This story is part discographical essay and part confession, as this essay documents 'one that got away'," the remarkable collection once belonging to, and created by, Cincinnati composer, organist and choir leader J. Walter De Vaux (1892-1952). It came to light at the end of the twentieth century and was gone by the end of the first decade of the twenty- first. That the discs are no longer with us, and what ultimately happened to them, is an object lesson in some of the vicissitudes in audio preservation and raises some questions: what is worth preserving, and who decides? Where does an outsider go with a valuable collection, and what happens to collections that are insufficiently valued? Some persons mentioned in the course of this article are disguised by pseudonyms as it is not my desire to embarrass anyone, though I cannot conceal my own embarrassment as to how the fate of the DeVaux collection ultimately played out.
- Subjects
DEVAUX, J. Walter; PRESERVATION of sound recordings; SOUND recording libraries; AMERICAN composers; ORGANISTS
- Publication
ARSC Journal, 2014, Vol 45, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2151-4402
- Publication type
Essay