{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/ws8hd7qk28/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Toward a Boris Discography: Mussorgsky and the Search for the Hammerhead Shark"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/019/original/ARSC_Full_Logo_RGB_K.jpg?1605438091","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Robert J. Dennis (Presenter)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2009-05-28 (Created)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Audio"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eThis talk investigates the textual aspects of discography by examining the unusual and fascinating history of Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov on record. This cornerstone of the Russian operatic repertory has a distinguished performance history on disc, though the opera, which exists in two distinct versions, has never been recorded in a form the composer knew or would recognize. This issue has been virtually ignored by critics and misrepresented by record companies. In order to place the earliest recordings of Boris Godunov in context, a look at the opera’s checkered performance history is necessary: its initial rejection by the Directorate of the Imperial Theatres in St. Petersburg, its subsequent acceptance in a radically revised form, its fragmentary first performances, its revisions and re-orchestrations at the hands of other composers, and the gradual progression to a stable if inauthentic performing text which remained in use, within the Soviet Union and beyond, on stage and in the recording studio, for nearly eighty years. Renewed interest in the composer’s original conception came in 1974 – the year of the opera’s centenary – with the publication of a critical edition of the score. Yet every effort to record the opera in a form in which the composer left it (there have been ten complete recordings purporting to do so) has fallen short of an accurate representation of either of Mussorgsky’s original conceptions. This investigation places the discographer’s work within a broader musicological context, and stresses the interdependence of two disciplines in documenting the recorded history of an operatic masterpiece.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eThis talk investigates the textual aspects of discography by examining the unusual and fascinating history of Mussorgsky\u0026rsquo;s Boris Godunov on record. This cornerstone of the Russian operatic repertory has a distinguished performance history on disc, though the opera, which exists in two distinct versions, has never been recorded in a form the composer knew or would recognize. This issue has been virtually ignored by critics and misrepresented by record companies. In order to place the earliest recordings of Boris Godunov in context, a look at the opera\u0026rsquo;s checkered performance history is necessary: its initial rejection by the Directorate of the Imperial Theatres in St. Petersburg, its subsequent acceptance in a radically revised form, its fragmentary first performances, its revisions and re-orchestrations at the hands of other composers, and the gradual progression to a stable if inauthentic performing text which remained in use, within the Soviet Union and beyond, on stage and in the recording studio, for nearly eighty years. Renewed interest in the composer\u0026rsquo;s original conception came in 1974 \u0026ndash; the year of the opera\u0026rsquo;s centenary \u0026ndash; with the publication of a critical edition of the score. Yet every effort to record the opera in a form in which the composer left it (there have been ten complete recordings purporting to do so) has fallen short of an accurate representation of either of Mussorgsky\u0026rsquo;s original conceptions. This investigation places the discographer\u0026rsquo;s work within a broader musicological context, and stresses the interdependence of two disciplines in documenting the recorded history of an operatic masterpiece.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/019/original/ARSC_Full_Logo_RGB_K.jpg?1605438091","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2671/collection_resources/128438/file/240035","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - ARSC_conf_2009_Dennis_audio.mp3"]},"duration":1930.22188,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2671/collection_resources/128438/file/240035/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2671/collection_resources/128438/file/240035/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-arsc.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/240/035/original/ARSC_conf_2009_Dennis_audio.mp3?1714691306","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mpeg","duration":1930.22188,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://arsc.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2671/collection_resources/128438/file/240035","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[]}]}