The Mapleson Cylinders - Program Notes

Executive Producer, The Mapleson Cylinder

Project: David Hall

Disc Edition produced by David Hamilton and Tom Owen

Master tapes prepared and edited by Tom Owen

Disc mastering by Tru-Tone Records

Plating and pressing by Europadisk

Booklet compiled and edited by David Hamilton

Graphic design by Douglas Sardo

Picture research by Robert Tuggle

Typography by Nassau Typographers

Printed by G.J. Haerer

Restoration of Mapleson photographs by Suzannah G. Hall, Wilton, Connecticut

Thanks also to:

The British Library, National Sound Archive, for permission to reprint material by David Hall first published in Recorded Sound

For technical assistance and advice: John Fesler; George Alexandrovich, Stanton Magnetics

For musical and historical assistance and suggestions: Will Crutchfield, Andrew Porter, Louis Snyder, John Stratton, Jean Uppman

At The New York Public Library, in the Music Division: Susan Thiemann Sommer; in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives: Richard Koprowski, Mark Mahee.

At the Metropolitan Opera, Librarian John Grande

At the Metropolitan Opera Guild, Paul Gruber and Gerald Fitzgerald

The co-operation of the Metropolitan Opera Association, the Metropolitan Opera Archives, and the Metropolitan Opera Guild is gratefully acknowledged.

The Mapleson Cylinder Project and the disc publication were made possible by generous assistance from the Rhode Island Foundation.

David Hamilton

Tom Owen

Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound

111 Amsterdam Avenue

New York, N. Y. 10023

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