There's a lot to digest in these two shows, but they make wonderfully refreshing additions to the treasures available to us every day in New York City.
I, for one, wholeheartedly support foreign labels such as Arkadia, Naxos, Myto, Melodram and Gebhardt that make these treasures available to a wider audience.
The video treasures available make clear what many disks don't — that he was a great live performer, whose famous renunciation of the stage was a terrible loss for the world of music.
H. Richard Dietrich Jr., a philanthropist and collector of early American decorative and fine arts who often made his treasures available for public viewing, died Aug. 30 at his home in Chester Springs, Pa.
The video treasures available make clear what many disks don't that he was a great live performer, whose famous renunciation of the stage was a terrible loss for the world of music.
Eric Schmidt, the chief executive of Google, had just made a presentation inside the museum, announcing that his company would create a virtual copy of the museum's collections at its own expense, and make images of four millenniums of archaeological treasures available online, free, by early next year.
The museum's executive director Julia Marciari-Alexander said in a statement that participation in the World Digital Library "is a terrific way to make some of our most significant treasures available alongside those of other great museums, libraries, and archives around the world". .
"As someone who crossed over from a typical American middle-class upbringing to someone who embraced the principles of dharma and reincarnation, I wanted to find a means to make those same treasures available to people from my own background," Das told HuffPost last year. .
This impersonal tribute is intended simply to show how much musical treasure is available to us thanks to the taste and the exertion of this one man (he died in 1985).
ANY extended survey of classical recordings these days has to begin with a lament for the treasures not available.
