Organ & choral LP giveaways from the Roberta Bitgood professional collections
Two groups of (mostly) 33¹/³ LP recordings from Roberta Bitgood’s professional collections were offered to interested parties at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Americal Guild of Organists, New London County Chapter, held on 6 June 2010.
The first group is comprised of recordings from the organ literature (and one organ workshop) as performed by a number of organ luminaries of the 20th century, and a few of the less well-known artists and professionals, many of whom Roberta counted as personal friends. Performers include: Mildred Andrews, E. Power Biggs, David Craighead, Catherine Crozier, Marcel Dupré, Maurice and Marie-Madeleine Duruflé, Lynwood Farnam, Virgil Fox, Howard Kelsey, Max Miller, Thomas Murray, Robert Noehren, Calvert Shenk, Albert Schweitzer, Carl Staplin, Carl Weinrich, William Whitehead, and Alec Wyton.
A few items from this group were claimed by AGO members in attendance on June 6: “Virgil Fox at Symphony Hall,” E. Power Biggs’ album entitled “Stars and Stripes Forever,” an organ workshop by Alec Wyton, and the two recordings made by William Whitehead (including one featuring the organ of the Philadelphia Academy of Music).
The remainder of the above group (41 items) remains available for you to claim: a list of the collection is available here. If you are interested in any of these, please give me a call.
The second group of recordings features choral works, both important and little-known, as performed and conducted by groups and conductors that were of interest to Roberta. A list is not available at this time, but if you would like to kno