[Fmpro] Nelson Riddle et al

[Robert Stanton]

That's sound advice JohnB ;-) -couldn't resist the pun.  I have a college
near by and hadn't considered it - thank you.  Oh . . . and don't 'kick-off'
anytime soon.
-Best

Robert Scott Stanton
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
zolessi at comcast.net

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Robert, the best thing to do would be to check around your general vicinity 
(as far as a day's drive) and contact colleges, Universities, private 
schools, larger libraries, music academies. Often it's possible to find 
certain such institutions that will be interested in accepting such a 
(tax-deductible) donation. Do not give them to a thrift store. Instead 
consider giving them, or turning them over for trade, to a record shop - 
assuming there is one left anywhere near you (or you might get some trade 
value from an antiques dealer). I have seriously been toying with the idea 
of donating my soundtrack collection (thousands of titles, and almost the 
complete Italian digital soundtrack library) to Carnegie-Mellon, my old 
Alma-Mater. I got the idea after discovering that the CMU music library had 
already accepted another Pittsburgh soundtrack collector's holdings. This 
older fellow, since deceased, had thousands of LPs and the school has 
carefully catalogued his entire estate (they will provide anyone with a 
print-out). I often wonder what my poor wife could do with this huge archive

of mine after I kick off. She might be able to make a killing on e-Bay 
(appraised/insured for $70,000 ten years ago), but my god, the work 
involved. - JohnB

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Stanton" <zolessi at comcast.net>
To: <fmpro at nxport.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Fmpro] Nelson Riddle et al


> Hi JohnB - Robert here ;-)
> - it sounds like you have a great collection of music.  I'd like to get 
> some
> of that, especially stuff from the 30's and 40's.  I need to listen once
> again to music from Oklahoma after the stuff Jeff mentioned - there is 
> just
> so much.  I have a little dilemma; I have a bunch of records from the
> Franklin Mint - 12 collections; sets that are each about the size of 
> George
> Harrison's All Things Must Pass album (multiple disks with notes etc.
> Anyway, they are all records, i.e. LPs on vinyl and I have no means of
> playing them and have had no luck selling them.  They go on Ebay for about
> $20 a set.  I am not selling them now - I would just like to get them into
> someone's hands who would appreciate them.  The problem is the shipping -
> they're heavy.  I've been thinking of donating them to a local thrift 
> store
> since I could just drop them off.  They include music by Beethoven, Verdi,
> Horowitz, 20th century masterpieces, American Orchestral Standards (Ives,
> Bernstein, Gershwin), legendary operatic voices, music by Serkin, Stern,
> Schnabel etc.  No Nelson Riddle though :(
> I've had them for ages and to the best of my knowledge are in perfect
> condition, and can't play them - I'm just not sure what to do with them - 
> it
> seems a sad waste.  Just thought I'd mention it here to see if they are of
> interest to anyone.
>
> ~best
>
> Robert Scott Stanton
> San Francisco Bay Area, CA
> zolessi at comcast.net
>
>
>
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