[Dixielandjazz] Re: Pre-midnight lucubration

[gwilliamoakley@earthlink.net]

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"Just pre-midnight lucubrations and nattering on...."

Dan:
My mother always said nattering on was fine but no pre-midnight lucubrations. 
It would stunt my growth at the very least.
Regards,
Bill

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 08:45:35 -0600 Dan Augustine
<ds.augustine@mail.utexas.edu> wrote:

> Rebecca and others--
>     Good idea about the Tulane Jazz Museum. 
> But what about donating my recordings (etc.) to
> either the Library of Congress or the
> Smithsonian?  Do they accept donations like
> that?  They'd (eventually) make the materials
> accessible to the public, wouldn't they?  Would
> they accept everything, or pick and choose?
> 
>     Dan
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >From: "Rebecca Thompson" 
> >To: "'Dan Augustine'" ,
> >	"DJML" 
> >Subject: RE: [Dixielandjazz] Who to leave my
> recordings to?
> >Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 07:40:58 -0600
> >
> >I have wondered about the recordings that Jim
> and I have collected.  Our
> >kids, although they say they like it, would
> probably just throw them
> >out, or give to Goodwill, who in turn, would
> probably throw them out!  I
> >will be interested in the comments from the
> list.
> >WHAT A GREAT IDEA OF A "TRADITIONAL MUSIC
> LIBRARY"!  (Dixieland is a
> >location).  Perhaps the City of New Orleans'
> French Quarter would be a
> >place to start since they are a National Park!
> The Jazz Museum there is
> >moving to a larger location in Louis Armstrong
> Park.  They might be
> >interested in expanding their collection to
> include books, recordings,
> >etc. 
> >OR Tulane University already has a large
> collection of oral, written and
> >recorded history.  They might accept the
> donation.
> >Thanks Dan, for your late-night pondering.
> >Rebecca Thompson
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 11:26 PM
> >Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Who to leave my
> recordings to?
> >Folks--
> >     Intimations of mortality: just wondering
> what i'm going to do
> >with all my recordings when i die (hopefully
> not for a couple of
> >decades yet).  I don't have very many,
> compared with some/most of
> >you, but still. Guess i could just will them
> to my brother's kids
> >(i'm single), but they don't know anything
> about this kind of music,
> >probably don't like it.
> >     The other option is to give them to a
> university music school--in
> >my case, either University of Nevada at Reno,
> or here at UT Austin.
> >     But wouldn't it be nice with there were
> other options?  What
> >about giving my collection to an American
> Dixieland Library (not yet
> >created), along with other folks' collections,
> so that a great
> >incredible history of recorded OKOM would be
> available for fans,
> >kids, scholars, musicians.  Digitize them for
> posterity.
> >     Or, if that's not possible, how about
> donating them somewhere,
> >but then creating a world-wide database of
> dixieland collections at
> >libraries and such from all over the world. 
> That might be even
> >better.
> >     I just hate to see libraries and music
> schools get these great
> >recordings and not care about them and not use
> them and make them
> >available, nor have any way for fans and
> scholars to know they're
> >available.
> >     Just pre-midnight lucubrations and
> nattering on....
> >Dan
> 
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