Newsletter - September 1, 2025
As of August 31st the Discography Database and the Bruckner Archive Database have been updated. The underlined headlines below will take you to the various sections of the website where the bullet points below are featured. Please use these as guides to the new information offered since the last newsletter. Newsletter - September 1, 2025 In just a few days, the 2025 East Coast Brucknerathon will be taking place here in Connecticut. Ever since 2009, when the first East Coast event took place in order to mirror the "Brucknerthon" taking place in California, the three day gathering has evolved into a Bruckner Society of America function which incorporates an afternoon social, an all-day marathon listening session and the annual meeting the the Society's Board of Directors. Planning for the event can be intensive with planning for four meals and refreshments plus the actual selection of recordings and preparation for the Sunday morning board meeting. We have just over fifteen people attending at present, but there is still time, especially if you live in the area, to contact me and for you to join us for all or part of the activities. If you are so inclined, just click here to sign up! This year, we will be concentrating on vinyl recordings (8 newly released and 3 vintage selections). In the middle of August, fourteen cartons of recordings were delivered to the Austrian National Media Library in Vienna thus completing what was the first physical transfer of Bruckner CDs to their facility. In addition, the Mediathek has been receiving monthly digital updates from me including new CDs and recent webcasts. The Mediathek is now the repository for the largest collection of Bruckner recordings in the world. I have also facilitated a link between the Mediathek and the Anton Bruckner Institute in Linz (ABIL) where Hans Roelofs' extensive library of vocal and instrumental music resides, thus allowing both institutions to collaborate in administering both collections. Meanwhile, the acquisition of recordings continues here thus ensuring that the archive continues to grow without any gaps in the list of new releases and webcasts. During the Brucknerathon all online sales from my website's Bargains and collectibles section. will be suspended to accommodate on site sales. Online sales will resume in Mid September. Thanks to the help of a colleague in Poland, I was able to locate a website that contains numerous out-of-print biographies on Bruckner. It was a tricky and time consuming endeavor, but I succeeded in downloading a number of interesting books on Bruckner: In English: Gabriel Engel: The Life of Anton Bruckner Hans Redlich: Bruckner and Mahler Derek Watson: Bruckner Erwin Doernberg: The Life and Symphonies of Anton Bruckner Robert Simpson: The Essence of Bruckner Hans-Hubert Schoenzeler: Bruckner Lee Lovallo: A Bruckner Discography Renate Grasberger: The Bruckner WAB Catalog (Werkverzeihnis) In German: Gollerich / Auer: Anton Bruckner: Ein Lebens- und Schaffens-Bild – A Picture of His Life and Work (9 Volumes) They can all be found in the Articles and Essays section. Please become a member of the Bruckner Society of America. For a $30.00 annual fee, you receive access to the Society's webpage archive and a subscription to the "Bruckner Journal." “The Bruckner Journal” (published three times a year), is now the official publication of the BSA. Each issue contains up to sixty pages of essays, recording and concert reviews and lists of upcoming concerts worldwide. Subscribe today at www.brucknersocietyamerica.org. CASH REWARD FOR WANTED RECORDINGS. Click here for details. LATEST NEWS AND POSTINGS
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