Please join the New York Archivists Round Table for our last meeting prior
to summer break!
As always, please RSVP to Leilani Dawson by Wednesday, June 7, 2006
[log in to unmask](recommended) or telephone: (718) 222-4111
x295. Please be reasonably sure that you can attend before responding.
See you there!
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Performing Arts Archives: “Satchmo’s Stuff” and The Kurt Weill Foundation
Monday, June 12, 2006
If you have ever wondered what it might be like to archive the collection
of a notable individual in the performing arts, here is your chance! This
month, ART is pleased to have performing arts archivists Michael Cogswell,
Director of the Louis Armstrong House and Archives, and Dave Stein, Kurt
Weill Foundation Archivist, speak about their fascinating collections and
discuss the unique challenges associated with maintaining performing arts
archives.
Michael Cogswell will speak on “Saving Satchmo’s Stuff: The Louis Armstrong
House and Archives.” The great musician Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong resided
for decades in a modest frame house in Queens. Today, his house, a
National Historic Landmark, is open to the public as a historic house
museum and his vast collection of home-recorded tapes, photographs,
scrapbooks, manuscripts, awards, musical instruments, etc. is available to
the public through the Louis Armstrong Archives at Queens College. The
multimedia presentation "Saving Satchmo's Stuff" will highlight
fascinating, entertaining, and curious materials from the museum's
collections.
Dave Stein will focus on the role of the Kurt Weill Foundation Archivist in
promoting Kurt Weill's and Lotte Lenya's legacies: assisting researchers,
developing and preparing material for publication, and expanding and
maintaining the collections. The Weill-Lenya Research Center is the
principal international repository for research materials related to the
life and work of composer Kurt Weill (1900-1950) and actress-singer Lotte
Lenya (1898-1981). The collections document not only Weill’s and Lenya’s
achievements during their lifetimes, but also how their legacies have
influenced the cultural history of the twentieth century.
Michael Cogswell is the Director of the Louis Armstrong House and Archives,
Queens College. In 1973, when he left the University of Virginia to play
saxophone professionally, Michael Cogswell did not imagine his musical
career would lead him back to a college campus and into the life of Louis
Armstrong. But after eight years of performing in jazz bands and R&B bands,
he returned to school, fell in love with historical musicology, libraries,
and archives, and eventually earned a Master’s in Jazz History and a
Master’s in Library Science. In 1991, Queens College hired Cogswell to
preserve and catalog Louis Armstrong’s vast personal collection of home-
recorded tapes, scrapbooks, photographs, manuscripts, and other such
material. The Louis Armstrong Archives opened to the public in May 1994.
Cogswell then administered the nine-year, two million dollar project to
open the Louis Armstrong House, a national historic landmark and a New York
City landmark, as a historic house museum. The Louis Armstrong House opened
to the public in October 2003. Cogswell, who has made presentations on
Louis Armstrong in cities across the United States and Europe, is the
author of Louis Armstrong: The Offstage Story of Satchmo (Collectors Press,
2003). He lives in Greenwich Village, New York City.
Dave Stein has been Archivist of the Kurt Weill Foundation for five years
and has worked at the Foundation for twelve. He played a major role in
producing two books: Lenya the Legend (Overlook Press, 1998) and Kurt
Weill: A Life in Pictures and Documents (Overlook, 2000), editing and
translating text and working with images. He has also assisted in preparing
numerous other Foundation publications, including the semi-annual Kurt
Weill Newsletter, a web site devoted to The Threepenny Opera
(www.threepennyopera.org), and several other books. He holds a B.S. from
Vanderbilt University and an M.A. in English from the University of
Virginia, and currently lives in Queens.
Co-Sponsored by:
METRO and the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York, Inc.
Date:
Monday, June 12, 2006
Place:
METRO, 57 East 11th Street, 4th Floor (between Broadway and University
Place, near Union Square)
Time:
5:30 - 6:30 pm Social
6:30 - 8:00 pm Program
Directions:
The facility is in downtown Manhattan, near Union Square between Broadway
and University Place. By subway: A, C, E, F, S, V to West 4th Street
(Washington Square); F, L, V, 1, 2, 3 to 14th Street (6th Avenue/Avenue of
the Americas); 4, 5, 6, L to 14th Street (Union Square) or 6 to Astor
Place; N, R to 8th Street or 14th Street (Union Square)
Fee:
$4 Members
$6 Non-members
RSVP:
To Leilani Dawson by Wednesday, June 7, 2006 [log in to unmask]
(recommended) or telephone: (718) 222-4111 x295. Please be reasonably sure
that you can attend before responding.
If you are person with a disability and need reasonable accommodations to
attend this meeting, please contact Jocelyn Wilk at (212) 854-1338 at least
7 days in advance so that we can make the appropriate arrangements.
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