A multi-copy set of well-used copies of the Bitgood cantata for junior choirs, Let There Be Light (published in 1965, Sacred Music Press), is available to be claimed by anyone interested. There are 35 copies in the box. Please let me know (gwiersma [at] mit [dot] edu) if you would like these and I will arrange to get them to you. If you have the phone number, feel free to call.
This is a new installation of the WordPress blogging software, and also a new version release (2.5.1, which we are still getting used to). One purpose of RB News & Notes is to provide a virtual space where friends of the Roberta Bitgood Commons and others interested in my mother’s life and career may learn more about newly available information and materials uncovered in processing her professional collections. When new materials are added to the Roberta Bitgood Commons site, whether they be previously unpublished reminiscences, newly scanned documents, images, or other media, a notice will be posted here.
RB News & Notes is not intended to be a “blog about blogging” (so we will keep documentation and discussion of technical matters to a minimum). Neither is it a blog for denizens of the “blogosphere” (there are plenty of those elsewhere). The main idea is to provide a convenient yet dynamic resource for sharing new Bitgood information, such that the community of interest can be reached, and the task of disposing of the Bitgood collections can be facilitated. In short, RB News & Notes is designed more as a virtual bulletin board than as a blog.
In general, we do not plan to allow user comments, in hopes of keeping the maintenance of RB News & Notes to a minimum. Instead, if users find information here which they wish to pursue (for example, if they wish to claim a multiple set of choir parts that has been offered), they may send e-mail to the address provided in the relevant post (or get in touch by phone) to arrange transmittal of the materials they would like to claim. Comments generally turn out to be spam, sorry!
A rough assessment of Roberta Bitgood’s unprocessed papers in terms of what is where, with reference to physical locations in her home, and the extent and content of the materials, is the starting point of my evaluation process. I hope that an overall survey of materials in each location at the Bitgood home can provide the basis for further analysis and processing, such that the unprocessed Bitgood collection can soon begin to be compared with its companion archive at Connecticut College. Four main locations need to be surveyed:
(1) the second floor studio
(2) the ground floor bedroom
(3) the basement
(4) the ground floor passageway
As of June 1, I am working in the basement. In this location alone, I have uncovered materials fitting all 7 categories listed in the previous post. To review, these are:
(I) Clippings (II) Printed programs (III) Correspondence (IV) Notebooks (V) Music formats (VI) Books and pamphlets (VII) Periodicals
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