36th Annual ARSC Conference, Santa Barbara California
Preliminary Program (as of Feb. 28, 2002)

Wednesday, May 8

Thursday, May 9

8:00am - 5:00pm	Exhibits	The Gazebo
8:00am - 5:00pm	Silent Auction	El Cabrillo Room
8:00am - 5:00pm	Registration	El Cabrillo Room Foyer
8:00am - 8:30am	Welcome and ARSC Business meeting	El Cabrillo Room
8:30am - 9:10am 9:10am - 9:40am 9:40am - 10:30am	Morning Sessions American "Exhibition" Recordings of 1888-1889: Prologue to the Recording Industry. Patrick Feaster, Indiana University. The Earliest Hawaiian Recordings, Facts & Myths. Malcolm Rockwell, Kula, Hawaii. The Rise of the Hit Record and Jazz at Edison, 1917-1923. Jerry Fabris, Edison National Historic Site.
10:30am - 10:45am	Coffee Break
10:45am - 11:30am	Morning Sessions, continued Understanding Beecham: The Post-War Contract Negotiations with Columbia Records and EMI. David Patmore, University of Sheffield
11:30am - 12:30pm	Confessions of Stan Cornyn, author of Exploding: The Highs, Hits, Hype, Heroes, and Hustlers of the Warner Music Group. Stan Cornyn, Santa Barbara, California.
12:30pm - 2:00pm	Lunch	On your own
2:00pm - 3:00pm	Afternoon Sessions National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences presentation: Preserving the Pop Masters. Ralph Sutton, Wonderland Recording Studios, and Al Schmitt.	El Cabrillo Room
3:00pm - 3:15pm	Coffee Break, Sponsored by the Otari Corporation
3:15pm - 4:00pm 4:00pm - 5:00pm	Afternoon Sessions, continued Lalo Guerrero, The Father of Chicano Music. Salvador Güereña, Univeristy of California, Santa Barbara and Dan Guerrero, Hollywood, California. Preservation and Accessibility through Digitizing the Arhoolie Foundation’s Frontera Collection. Chris Strachwitz and Tom Diamant, The Arhoolie Foundation.
7:30pm - 9:00pm	Evening Session Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra: The Complete Concert of February 15, 1941. Seth Winner, Seth Winner Sound Studios, New York.	TBA

Friday, May 10

8:00am - 5:00pm	Exhibits	The Gazebo
8:00am - 5:00pm	Registration	El Cabrillo Room Foyer
8:00am - 12:30pm	Silent Auction	El Cabrillo Room
8:00am - 8:30am 8:30am - 9:00am 9:00am - 9:30am 9:30am - 10:15am	Morning Sessions California Dreamin': The Romance of California in Sheet Music and Popular Recordings of the Early 20th Century. Tom and Virginia Hawthorn, Hawthorn’s Antique Audio. Roy Ringwald: Arranger Extraordinaire. Peter F. Kiefer, Penn State University. Early Mozart Recordings: Documents of Traditions and New Concepts. Martin Elste, Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Composer and Creator Performances on Record. Gary Galo, State University of New York, Potsdam.	El Cabrillo Room
10:15am - 10:30am	Coffee Break, sponsored by
11:15am - 12:00pm	Morning Sessions, continued Update on the International Piano Archive: Delights, Disasters, and Discoveries. Don Manildi, University of Maryland.
Noon - 1:30pm	Lunch	On your own
1:30pm - 12:15pm 2:15pm - 3:00pm	Technical Sessions  Gary Galo, Co-chair ARSC Technical Committee, Moderator Storage and Preservation Today for Tomorrow. David Wexler, Hollywood Vaults, Inc. The Otari Digital Archive System. John Spencer, VP Sales and Marketing, Otari Corporation.	El Cabrillo Room
3:00pm - 3:15pm	Coffee Break, sponsored by Hollywood Vaults, Inc.
3:15pm - 4:15pm 4:15pm - 5:00pm	Technical Sessions, continued Motion Picture Sound Preservation and Restoration in the Digital Age. Bob Heiber, Chase Sound. Retrieving and Restoring Information from Damaged Full-track Monaural Tape Recordings. Seth B. Winner, New York Public Library, and Dennis Rooney, New York, NY.
7:30pm - 8:15pm 8:15pm - 9:00pm	Evening Session Hillbillies Out West: Early Country Music Recording in California 1928-1941. Cary Ginell, SoundThink, Thousand Oaks, California. 'Home is Pasadena': California in Popular Song. Bill Schurk, Bowling Green State University.	El Cabrillo Room

Saturday, May 11 (Sessions take place at the University of California, Santa Barbara)

8:00am	Buses leave Radisson Hotel
8:30am - Noon	Registration	Corwin Pavilion Lobby
8:30am - 9:30am	Continental breakfast sponsored by the UCSB Libraries	Corwin Pavilion Patio
9:30am - 10:10am 10:10am - 10:30am 10:30am - 11:00am 11:00am - 11:30am 11:30am - Noon	Morning Sessions The California Antique Phonograph Society Southwest Museum Cylinder Project. Michael F. Khanchalian, Mark Ulano, and Dan Reed. Mexican-American Music in the Lummis Wax Cylinder Collection: Issues in Transcription and Publication. John Koegel, California State University, Fullerton. From Central Avenue to the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra - Documenting Community Arts in the African American Community of Los Angeles. Steven L. Isoardi, UCLA Oral History Program. The Search for Sister O.M. Terrell. Bruce Nemerov, The Center for Popular Music. Rabbits, Rats, and Trained Widow Spiders: The Story of Jazz Bandleader and Amateur Zoologist, Harry Spindler (1893-1961). David N. Lewis, All Music Guide.	Corwin Pavilion
Noon - 2:00pm	UCSB Libraries Book and Record Sale	Davidson Library, 8th Fl
	Proceeds from the record and book sale will benefit the Friends of the UCSB Libraries.
Noon - 12:30pm 12:30 - 1:00pm	UCSB Libraries Tours of Special Collections	Davidson Library, 3rd Fl
	Limited to 15 people per group. Tours are free, but signup on the registration form. Meet in the lobby of the Special Collections Department.
1:00pm - 1:45pm 1:45pm - 2:15pm 2:15pm - 3:00pm	Afternoon Sessions The Durbeck Archive: Documenting Complete Opera Recordings of the LP Era. Edward F. Durbeck III, Oceanside, California. Archival Collections on the Web: Cylinders & Berliner On-line. David Seubert, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Samuel Brylawski, Library of Congress. ARSC and the National Recording Preservation Board. Bill Klinger, Chardon, Ohio.	Corwin Pavilion
3:00pm - 4:15pm	ARSC Membership meeting	Corwin Pavilion
4:30pm	Bus leaves for Radisson
7:00pm - 9:00pm	ARSC Awards Banquet, sponsored in part by Gary Thal Music.	El Cabrillo Room
	Separate registration fee required. Please join your colleauges at 6:30 for a happy hour wine reception prior to the Awards Banquet.