Bill Schubart Collection
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MarchHairupdated 2 years ago
MarchHairupdated 2 years agoBill Schubart (b. 1947) is a Vermont author, commentator, and businessman. Born in New York City and raised in Morrisville, VT, Schubart was educated at Phillips Exeter, Kenyon College, and the University Of Vermont (Burlington, U.S.A.). Following his education, Schubart joined with his brother Michael Couture in 1973 to co-found the Vermont-based folk label, Philo, recording studio Earth Audio Techniques (1, 2), publisher Pleiades Music, and production company Resolution, Inc.. Philo was merged into Massachussetts' Rounder Records label in 1982. Schubart lives today in Hinesburg, Vermont. The Philo masters have recently been donated to the Vermont Folklife Center.
Primarily focused on folk and traditional music, the Philo label produced artists including Jean Redpath, Jean Carignan, Mary McCaslin, Philippe Bruneau, artists from Fretless, and later artists like Christine Lavin, Carrie Newcomer, and Nanci Griffith. But the output from Philo is considerably narrower in scope than Schubart's actual personal collection. Characterizing his collection as "classical and primitive music", the 3000-odd releases that comprise the bulk of his non-Philo records range roughly from traditional to operatic to modern/experimental classical (900), Nordic to mid-European to Spanish traditional and secular (100), primitive to arcane to magical (50), French-Canadian and Cajun (200), Asian and Indian and African world music (200), jazz and ambient/new age (200), Soul and Gospel (100), bluegrass and country (250), blues from Chicago and Memphis and delta (200), folk and rock - British and Celtic (700), and more (politically and rebellious, Christmas, children's, comedy, poetry, etc.), etc. Numerous formats in the collection also include 45RPMs, 78RPMs (10", 11" Pathé discs, 1/2 in. spindles from Standard Disc, etc.). And the hope of this list is to glean a bit of the influences that led to Schubart's musical interests as well as the flavor of the proto- or otherwise pre-Philo sound before becoming the label.
Schubart's personal collection provides an interesting peek as an archive with hand-written notes and of course original order and respect des fonds. Writing on covers, for example, can show Schubart's monogram in an era when his collection was first developing. With a stamped address of his time at Phillips Exeter, a digital visitor can determine that this music came from a specific and different era. Connections to Philo, Fretless, and Rounder provide more obvious connections. In terms of the specific order, mis-ordered records (swapped, missing, etc.) may reveal particularly common listens while unopened covers may be recorded either as of lesser interest or alternately of greater significance as when doubles (one opened and one for saving) are identified.
This is a long-running project that provides the archivist's great opportunities to dig into Schubart's vinyl vaults. Keep watching as the collection list grows and expands!
PLANS
1 - List all BSC records (tuples, duplicates, promos, different covers, unopened, BS3 lists, missing items)
1.5 - Convert unblue dupes via (#123 -> (#132 -> 133))
2 - Convert Masters to Releases (+ add cutouts, stickers etc., and inclusions like packets)
3 - Add to Discogs
MISSING
*#160 (between #159-#160) - J 053-01.147 (Odeon) - 1970 - Brahms / Furtwängler (Furtwängler) - Vol. 10 - Sinfonia No. 4 en Mi Menor, Op. 98 / Con la Orquesta Filarmonica de Berlin ---DUPLICATE (#160 -> #164); unopened
*#198 (between #197-#198) - ????? (Subscription Recording) - 1964 - Rameau / Bach / Mozart / Satie / Debussy / Falla / Mompou / Albeniz (George Copeland) - Les Grands Seigneurs / Jesus Christus, Filius Dei / Fastaisie (C Minor) / Gymnopedie / La Puerta del Vino / Hommage à Rameau / Danse de Puck / Danse / Canco / Saguidilla ---William H. Schubart (272 Pearl St. Burlington, VT 802-863-6516)(WHS3)
*#221 (between #220-#221) - SD170 (Sonar) - 1978 - Chopin (Daniel Epstein) - Sonata #3 in B Minor, Op. 58 / Allegro Maestoso / Scherzo: Molto Vivace / Largo / Finale: Presto, non Tanto / Waltz in C Sharp Minor, Op. 64, #2 / Polonaise in A, Op. 40, #1 ("Militaire") / Scherzo #4 in E, Op. 54
*#233 (between #232-#233) - OVD 49.323 (Pathé) - ????? - Claude Debussy (Ricardo Viñes / Mary Garden / Hector Dufranne / Jacques Thibaud / Alfred Cortot / Quatuor Calvet) - Pour Le 5o' Anniversaire de Sa Mort
*#255 (between #254-#255) - ????? (Subscription Recording) - 1965 - Schumann / Debussy (George Copeland) - Faschingsschwark aus Wein / Debussy ---William H. Schubart (272 Pearl St. Burlington, VT 802-863-6516)
*#274 (between #273-#274) - EA-0033 (Expériences Anonymes) - ????? - George Frederick Handel (Paul Wolfe) - Keyboard Music: Volume II ---William Schubart (WHS3)
*#423 (between #422-#423) - BGS-70671 (Vanguard / Bach Guild) - 1966 - Montoverdi (Deller Consort) - Lamento d'Arianna
*#498 (between #497-#498) - MK 1583 (Connoisseur Society) - ????? - Prokofiev (G. Rozhdestvensky / Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra) - Symphony No. 2 in D Minor Op. 40
*#606 (between #605-#606) - ML-75 (RCA) - ????? - Domenico Scarlatti (Cesare Valabrega) - Messa in Sol Minore / Cantata
*#631 (between #630-#631) - LALP 581 (Odeon) - 1943 - Joaquín Rodrigo - Interpreta Sus Obras
*#761 (between #760-#761) - ML 5875 (Columbia) - ????? - Bernard Krainis / Krainis Consort and Baroque Ensemble - Sweet Pipes: Five Centuries of Recorder Music
*#777 (between #776-#777) - MG10003 (Mercury) - ????? - Cimarosa / Luis Milan / Vaughan Williams (Mitchell Miller / Saiden Little Symphony / Daniel Saidenberg / Arthur Benjamin / William Spencer Johnson) - Concerto for Oboe and Strings / Pavana & Giga for English Horn and Strings / Concerto for Oboe and Strings
*#792 (between #791-#792) - RS 63013 (London) - ????? - Debussy (Danco / Mollet / Reyfuss / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Ansermet) - Pelléas et Mélisande ---triple box (?)
*#835 (between #834-#835) - LALP 322/4 (Odeon) - 1958 - ? (?) - Cantaores Famosos (Antologia del Cante Flamenco) ---triple box (?)
*#951 (between #950-#951) - M-1024 (中国唱片) - ????? - 广东省粤剧团 - 沙家浜: 粤剧 ~ 3-4
*#966 (between #965-#966) - M-1025 (中国唱片) - ????? - 广东省粤剧团 - 沙家浜: 粤剧 ~ 5-6
*#1029 (between #1028-#1029) - H-1000 (Jay Jay) - 1983 - Michael Voltaire / Notre-Dame D'Haiti Church Choir - A Haitian Mass / Lamès Ayisyin
*#1044 (between #1043-#1044) - ????? (Earth Audio Techniques) - 1982 - Magdamo / Dadap - Ang Katahum Mubihag: Songs of the Visayans ---unopened
*#1231 (between #1230-#1231) - ????? (Byzantine Singers) - ????? - Byzantine Singers / Christos Vrionided / Richard Browning / Carl Buchman / Christos Vrionides / Willard Van Woert / Nelson Starr - Greek Orthodox Hymns / Greek Folk Songs
*#1382 (between #1381-#1382) - AJ0001 (A. J.) - ????? - Stanley Steamer Jazz Band - Here Comes The Stanley Steamer: Mighty Dixieland
*#1450 (between #1449-#1450) - FES 34032 (Folkways) - 1981 - ????? - The Southeast Alaska Folk Tradition: Stampede and Settlement - 1898-1941 ---unopened
*#1465 (between #1464-#1465) - ????? (?????) - ????? - ????? - ????? ---MISSING DISC; William Schubart (WHS3)
*#1532 (between #1531-#1532) - ACF-1006 (CFE) - 1979 - Agujetas - Flamenco: El Niño de Agujetas ---See Antonio Agujetas
*#1621 (between #1620-#1621) - 24931 (Champlain Shakespeare Festival) - ????? - Festival Minstrels - Come Follow
*#1625 (between #1624-#1625) - LE-3000 (RCA Victor) - ????? - RCA Victor Square Dance Orchestra - Let's Square Dance!: A How-to-Do-It Series - Album No. 1 ---single box; 10"; unopened
*#2360 (between #2359-#2360) - FD 5329 (Folkways) - 1977 - Ray Reed - Ray Reed Sings Traditional Frontier and Cowboy Songs
*#2670 (between #2669-#2670(1)) - H-1107 (Handel Recording Service) - 1963 - Peadquacs / Royal Exonians - The Phillips Exeter Academy '63 ---William Schubart (WHS3) (Schubart / June 1st)
*#2671 (between #2670(1)-#2671(1)) - A32M-80571/80572 (RPC) - 1961 - Peadquacs / Royal Exonians - Peadquacs: 1961 / Royal Exonians ---William Schubart (WHS3) (William Schubart)
*#2672 (between #2670(1)-#2671(2)) - RV 1032 A/B (Vogt) - 1960 - Peadquacs / Royal Exonians - The Phillips Exeter Academy: Peadquacs / Royal Exonians ---William Schubart (WHS3)
*#2839 (between #2838-#2839) - 45-10281 (ABC-Paramount) - ???? - Djinns Singers - Minuit, Chretriens (O, Holy Night) / Pour Noël (For Christmas) ---7"; cover missing / (?) - cover
*#2853 (between #2852-#2853) - M-8337 (Montgomery Ward) - ???? - Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm - South of the Border / It's All Over Town ---Cracked; 10"; cover missing / (?) - cover
*#2863 (between #2862-#2863) - 4550 (Vocalion) - ???? - Between A Kiss and a Sigh / I Won't Believe It (Till I Hear It From You) ---{Babs}; 10"; cover missing / (?) - cover
*#2877 (between #2876-#2877) - 14671 (Vocalion) - ???? - Upright and Grand / Corn on the Cob ---brown vinyl; 10"; cover missing / (?) - cover
*#2891 (between #2890-#2891) - 3176 (Standard Disc) - ???? - Violin and Harp Duet: Mazurka de Concert ---1-sided; 1/2 in. spindle; 10"; cover missing / (?) - cover
*#2895 (between #2894-#2895) - ?41048-1-2? (Standard Disc) - ???? - My Dream (Mein Traum) - Orchestra ---1-sided; 1/2 in. spindle; 10"; cover missing / (?) - cover
*#2897 (between #2896-#2897) - 438 (Standard Disc) - ???? - Nearer My God to Thee - Chimes ---1-sided; duplicate (#2897 -> #2901);1/2 in. spindle; 10"; cover missing / (?) - cover
*#2899 (between #2898-#2899) - 14166 (Aeolian Vocalion) - ???? - Siren of a Southern Sea / Without You ---brown vinyl; 10"; cover missing / (?) - cover
*#2900 (between #2899-#2900(1)) - 3553 (Standard Disc) - ???? - Jigs and Reels Medley - Violin Solo ---1-sided; 1/2 in. spindle; 10"; cover missing / (?) - cover
TO BE ADDED?: Also great nephew of Alfred Stieglitz
Primarily focused on folk and traditional music, the Philo label produced artists including Jean Redpath, Jean Carignan, Mary McCaslin, Philippe Bruneau, artists from Fretless, and later artists like Christine Lavin, Carrie Newcomer, and Nanci Griffith. But the output from Philo is considerably narrower in scope than Schubart's actual personal collection. Characterizing his collection as "classical and primitive music", the 3000-odd releases that comprise the bulk of his non-Philo records range roughly from traditional to operatic to modern/experimental classical (900), Nordic to mid-European to Spanish traditional and secular (100), primitive to arcane to magical (50), French-Canadian and Cajun (200), Asian and Indian and African world music (200), jazz and ambient/new age (200), Soul and Gospel (100), bluegrass and country (250), blues from Chicago and Memphis and delta (200), folk and rock - British and Celtic (700), and more (politically and rebellious, Christmas, children's, comedy, poetry, etc.), etc. Numerous formats in the collection also include 45RPMs, 78RPMs (10", 11" Pathé discs, 1/2 in. spindles from Standard Disc, etc.). And the hope of this list is to glean a bit of the influences that led to Schubart's musical interests as well as the flavor of the proto- or otherwise pre-Philo sound before becoming the label.
Schubart's personal collection provides an interesting peek as an archive with hand-written notes and of course original order and respect des fonds. Writing on covers, for example, can show Schubart's monogram in an era when his collection was first developing. With a stamped address of his time at Phillips Exeter, a digital visitor can determine that this music came from a specific and different era. Connections to Philo, Fretless, and Rounder provide more obvious connections. In terms of the specific order, mis-ordered records (swapped, missing, etc.) may reveal particularly common listens while unopened covers may be recorded either as of lesser interest or alternately of greater significance as when doubles (one opened and one for saving) are identified.
This is a long-running project that provides the archivist's great opportunities to dig into Schubart's vinyl vaults. Keep watching as the collection list grows and expands!
PLANS
1 - List all BSC records (tuples, duplicates, promos, different covers, unopened, BS3 lists, missing items)
1.5 - Convert unblue dupes via (#123 -> (#132 -> 133))
2 - Convert Masters to Releases (+ add cutouts, stickers etc., and inclusions like packets)
3 - Add to Discogs
MISSING
*#160 (between #159-#160) - J 053-01.147 (Odeon) - 1970 - Brahms / Furtwängler (Furtwängler) - Vol. 10 - Sinfonia No. 4 en Mi Menor, Op. 98 / Con la Orquesta Filarmonica de Berlin ---DUPLICATE (#160 -> #164); unopened
*#198 (between #197-#198) - ????? (Subscription Recording) - 1964 - Rameau / Bach / Mozart / Satie / Debussy / Falla / Mompou / Albeniz (George Copeland) - Les Grands Seigneurs / Jesus Christus, Filius Dei / Fastaisie (C Minor) / Gymnopedie / La Puerta del Vino / Hommage à Rameau / Danse de Puck / Danse / Canco / Saguidilla ---William H. Schubart (272 Pearl St. Burlington, VT 802-863-6516)(WHS3)
*#221 (between #220-#221) - SD170 (Sonar) - 1978 - Chopin (Daniel Epstein) - Sonata #3 in B Minor, Op. 58 / Allegro Maestoso / Scherzo: Molto Vivace / Largo / Finale: Presto, non Tanto / Waltz in C Sharp Minor, Op. 64, #2 / Polonaise in A, Op. 40, #1 ("Militaire") / Scherzo #4 in E, Op. 54
*#233 (between #232-#233) - OVD 49.323 (Pathé) - ????? - Claude Debussy (Ricardo Viñes / Mary Garden / Hector Dufranne / Jacques Thibaud / Alfred Cortot / Quatuor Calvet) - Pour Le 5o' Anniversaire de Sa Mort
*#255 (between #254-#255) - ????? (Subscription Recording) - 1965 - Schumann / Debussy (George Copeland) - Faschingsschwark aus Wein / Debussy ---William H. Schubart (272 Pearl St. Burlington, VT 802-863-6516)
*#274 (between #273-#274) - EA-0033 (Expériences Anonymes) - ????? - George Frederick Handel (Paul Wolfe) - Keyboard Music: Volume II ---William Schubart (WHS3)
*#423 (between #422-#423) - BGS-70671 (Vanguard / Bach Guild) - 1966 - Montoverdi (Deller Consort) - Lamento d'Arianna
*#498 (between #497-#498) - MK 1583 (Connoisseur Society) - ????? - Prokofiev (G. Rozhdestvensky / Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra) - Symphony No. 2 in D Minor Op. 40
*#606 (between #605-#606) - ML-75 (RCA) - ????? - Domenico Scarlatti (Cesare Valabrega) - Messa in Sol Minore / Cantata
*#631 (between #630-#631) - LALP 581 (Odeon) - 1943 - Joaquín Rodrigo - Interpreta Sus Obras
*#761 (between #760-#761) - ML 5875 (Columbia) - ????? - Bernard Krainis / Krainis Consort and Baroque Ensemble - Sweet Pipes: Five Centuries of Recorder Music
*#777 (between #776-#777) - MG10003 (Mercury) - ????? - Cimarosa / Luis Milan / Vaughan Williams (Mitchell Miller / Saiden Little Symphony / Daniel Saidenberg / Arthur Benjamin / William Spencer Johnson) - Concerto for Oboe and Strings / Pavana & Giga for English Horn and Strings / Concerto for Oboe and Strings
*#792 (between #791-#792) - RS 63013 (London) - ????? - Debussy (Danco / Mollet / Reyfuss / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Ansermet) - Pelléas et Mélisande ---triple box (?)
*#835 (between #834-#835) - LALP 322/4 (Odeon) - 1958 - ? (?) - Cantaores Famosos (Antologia del Cante Flamenco) ---triple box (?)
*#951 (between #950-#951) - M-1024 (中国唱片) - ????? - 广东省粤剧团 - 沙家浜: 粤剧 ~ 3-4
*#966 (between #965-#966) - M-1025 (中国唱片) - ????? - 广东省粤剧团 - 沙家浜: 粤剧 ~ 5-6
*#1029 (between #1028-#1029) - H-1000 (Jay Jay) - 1983 - Michael Voltaire / Notre-Dame D'Haiti Church Choir - A Haitian Mass / Lamès Ayisyin
*#1044 (between #1043-#1044) - ????? (Earth Audio Techniques) - 1982 - Magdamo / Dadap - Ang Katahum Mubihag: Songs of the Visayans ---unopened
*#1231 (between #1230-#1231) - ????? (Byzantine Singers) - ????? - Byzantine Singers / Christos Vrionided / Richard Browning / Carl Buchman / Christos Vrionides / Willard Van Woert / Nelson Starr - Greek Orthodox Hymns / Greek Folk Songs
*#1382 (between #1381-#1382) - AJ0001 (A. J.) - ????? - Stanley Steamer Jazz Band - Here Comes The Stanley Steamer: Mighty Dixieland
*#1450 (between #1449-#1450) - FES 34032 (Folkways) - 1981 - ????? - The Southeast Alaska Folk Tradition: Stampede and Settlement - 1898-1941 ---unopened
*#1465 (between #1464-#1465) - ????? (?????) - ????? - ????? - ????? ---MISSING DISC; William Schubart (WHS3)
*#1532 (between #1531-#1532) - ACF-1006 (CFE) - 1979 - Agujetas - Flamenco: El Niño de Agujetas ---See Antonio Agujetas
*#1621 (between #1620-#1621) - 24931 (Champlain Shakespeare Festival) - ????? - Festival Minstrels - Come Follow
*#1625 (between #1624-#1625) - LE-3000 (RCA Victor) - ????? - RCA Victor Square Dance Orchestra - Let's Square Dance!: A How-to-Do-It Series - Album No. 1 ---single box; 10"; unopened
*#2360 (between #2359-#2360) - FD 5329 (Folkways) - 1977 - Ray Reed - Ray Reed Sings Traditional Frontier and Cowboy Songs
*#2670 (between #2669-#2670(1)) - H-1107 (Handel Recording Service) - 1963 - Peadquacs / Royal Exonians - The Phillips Exeter Academy '63 ---William Schubart (WHS3) (Schubart / June 1st)
*#2671 (between #2670(1)-#2671(1)) - A32M-80571/80572 (RPC) - 1961 - Peadquacs / Royal Exonians - Peadquacs: 1961 / Royal Exonians ---William Schubart (WHS3) (William Schubart)
*#2672 (between #2670(1)-#2671(2)) - RV 1032 A/B (Vogt) - 1960 - Peadquacs / Royal Exonians - The Phillips Exeter Academy: Peadquacs / Royal Exonians ---William Schubart (WHS3)
*#2839 (between #2838-#2839) - 45-10281 (ABC-Paramount) - ???? - Djinns Singers - Minuit, Chretriens (O, Holy Night) / Pour Noël (For Christmas) ---7"; cover missing / (?) - cover
*#2853 (between #2852-#2853) - M-8337 (Montgomery Ward) - ???? - Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm - South of the Border / It's All Over Town ---Cracked; 10"; cover missing / (?) - cover
*#2863 (between #2862-#2863) - 4550 (Vocalion) - ???? - Between A Kiss and a Sigh / I Won't Believe It (Till I Hear It From You) ---{Babs}; 10"; cover missing / (?) - cover
*#2877 (between #2876-#2877) - 14671 (Vocalion) - ???? - Upright and Grand / Corn on the Cob ---brown vinyl; 10"; cover missing / (?) - cover
*#2891 (between #2890-#2891) - 3176 (Standard Disc) - ???? - Violin and Harp Duet: Mazurka de Concert ---1-sided; 1/2 in. spindle; 10"; cover missing / (?) - cover
*#2895 (between #2894-#2895) - ?41048-1-2? (Standard Disc) - ???? - My Dream (Mein Traum) - Orchestra ---1-sided; 1/2 in. spindle; 10"; cover missing / (?) - cover
*#2897 (between #2896-#2897) - 438 (Standard Disc) - ???? - Nearer My God to Thee - Chimes ---1-sided; duplicate (#2897 -> #2901);1/2 in. spindle; 10"; cover missing / (?) - cover
*#2899 (between #2898-#2899) - 14166 (Aeolian Vocalion) - ???? - Siren of a Southern Sea / Without You ---brown vinyl; 10"; cover missing / (?) - cover
*#2900 (between #2899-#2900(1)) - 3553 (Standard Disc) - ???? - Jigs and Reels Medley - Violin Solo ---1-sided; 1/2 in. spindle; 10"; cover missing / (?) - cover
TO BE ADDED?: Also great nephew of Alfred Stieglitz
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