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After earning a degree in engineering, Bruce Burger (aka RebbeSoul)set off to explore L.A.’s music scene.
Florida Atlantic University’s Recorded Sound Archives at the Wimberly Library will be purged this January. Well, sort of.
By Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel
Florida Atlantic University is offering a free and legal way for music lovers to add to their collections, with no downloading required.
You may ask yourself… how did a Yiddish story by Sholem Aleichem, based on a surrealistic painting by Marc Chagal, become one of the world’s most popular shows?
You may ask yourself…. how could a 1964 Broadway musical touch audiences after 50 years?
Further proof that vinyl records are reasserting themselves in the collections of audio junkies are figures from music sales-tracker Nielsen SoundScan, released last week, which revealed that retailers moved 6.1 million wax units in 2013. That’s a 33 percent upswing over 2012’s haul of 2.55 million, making vinyl the fastest growing music format of the year.So there may be abundant interest in the free records that Florida Atlantic University’s Recorded Sound Archives are slinging starting Monday at the Wimberly Library (777 Glades Road, Boca Raton). About 2,000 retro records are in FAU’s third annual giveaway, harvested through private donations and duplicates that don’t fit with the university’s own collection.Up for grabs are albums from Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand and Glenn Miller; Broadway recordings from “Fiddler on the Roof,” Gilbert and Sullivan and others; and genre music spanning jazz to polka. The giveaway runs 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday through Friday, Jan. 10, on the library’s fifth floor, and then resumes Jan. 27-Jan. 31.
Original article – http://www.southflorida.com/events/sf-best-events-this-week-20140106,0,4156324.photogallery?index=sf-go-best-events-this-week-010614c-20140106
