1750 Arch Records
| 1750 Arch Records | |
|---|---|
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| Founded | 1974 |
| Founder | Thomas Buckner |
| Defunct | 1984 |
| Genre | experimental, avant garde, jazz, classical music. |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Location | Berkeley, California |
1750 Arch Records was an independent record label that focused on experimental and avant garde music, jazz, and classical music.
History
[edit]The label, named after the company's address in Berkeley, California, was founded in 1974 by vocalist Thomas Buckner, who was also responsible for starting 1750 Arch Concerts, which presented over a hundred concerts a year for eight years, and the Arch Ensemble, which performed and recorded music by 20th century composers.[1][2][3][4] Over the course of roughly ten years, it released over fifty albums in a wide range of styles, including the complete player piano music of Conlon Nancarrow.[5][6] In the early 1980s, 1750 Arch began to wind down its operations, closing in 1984, at which time the master recordings were returned to the composers and musicians.[3][7][8] A number of albums were reissued on other labels, including Buckner's Mutable Music.[3][7]
Releases
[edit]- Contemporary music
- S-1752 Various Artists: 10+2: 12 American Text Sound Pieces
- S-1760 Janet Millard: 20th Century Flute
- S-1765 Various Artists: New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media
- S-1768 Conlon Nancarrow: Complete Studies for Player Piano, Vol. #1
- S-1771 Joseph Bacon: Guitar Music of Villa-Lobos
- S-1772 Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra: Lou Harrison: Elegiac Symphony; Robert Hughes: Cadences
- S-1774 David Rosenboom and Don Buchla: Collaboration in Performance
- S-1775 Stuart Dempster: In the Great Abbey of Clement VI
- S-1777 Conlon Nancarrow: Complete Studies for Player Piano, Vol. #2
- S-1779 Charles Amirkhanian: Lexical Music
- S-1780 Mel Graves: Three Worlds
- S-1781 Gardner Jencks: Selected Works for Piano, 1942-1980
- S-1782 Various Artists: The Music of Luigi Dallapiccola
- S-1784 John Adams: Shaker Loops; Phrygian Gates
- S-1785 Thomas Buckner, Gerald Oshita, Roscoe Mitchell: New Music for Woodwinds and Voice
- S-1786 Conlon Nancarrow: Complete Studies for Player Piano, Vol. #3
- S-1787 Susan Allen: New Music for Harp
- S-1789 Katrina Krimsky: Villa-Lobos: The Baby's Family
- S-1792 Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra: Daniel Kobialka: Echoes of Secret Silence; Charles Shere: Nightmusic
- S-1793 Neil B. Rolnick: Solos
- S-1794 Peter Dickson Lopez: The Ship of Death
- S-1795 Henry Brant: Solar Moth; Daniel Kobialka: Autumn Beyond
- S-1797 Jon English, Candace Natvig: Triptych
- S-1798 Conlon Nancarrow: Complete Studies for Player Piano, Vol. #4
- S-1800 Michael McNabb: Computer Music
- S-1801 Anna Carol Dudley, Ronald Erickson, Earle Shenk: The Music of Charles Seeger (1886-1979)
- S-1806 Roscoe Mitchell, Gerald Oshita, Tom Buckner: Space: An Interesting Breakfast Conversation
- Classical music
- S-1754 Martial Singher: Opus 70
- S-1761 Renee Grant-Williams, Dorothy Barnhouse, Alden Gilchrist: Brahms Duets
- S-1762 Jeanne Stark: Claude Debussy: Preludes, Book I
- S-1763 Jeanne Stark: Claude Debussy: Preludes, Book II
- S-1766 Martial Singher, Dorothy Angwin: An Album of French Songs
- S-1767 Bernhard Abramowitsch: Schubert: Sonata in B Flat Major; Klaviersuck II
- S-1783 San Francisco String Quartet: A Night in the Garden Court
- S-1796 Dennis Russell Davies, Charles Holland: My Lord What a Mornin'
- Early music
- S-1751 Musica Mundana: Dufay: Fifteen Songs
- S-1753 Music for a While: Transformations: Dufay and His Contemporaries
- S-1756 Paul Hersh, Laurette Goldberg: J.S. Bach: The Leipzig Sonatas
- S-1757 Tom Buckner, Joseph Bacon: Wandering in This Place: Elizabethan Lute Songs
- S-1764 Joseph Bacon: Dowland: Fantasies and Dances for the Lute
- S-1773 Music for a While: La Fontaine Amoureuse: Poetry and Music of Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377)
- S-1776 Anna Carol Dudley: Henry Purcell: Songs and Grounds
- Jazz
- S-1755 Infinite Sound: Contemporary African-American Music
- S-1758 Denny Zeitlin with George Marsh and Mel Graves: Expansion
- S-1759 Denny Zeitlin, Ratzo B. Harris, George Marsh: Syzygy
- S-1769 Art Lande: The Eccentricities of Earl Dant
- S-1770 Denny Zeitlin: Soundings
- S-1778 Art Lande: The Story of Ba-Ku
- S-1790 Big Black (Danny Rey): Ethnic Fusion
- S-1791 George Marsh: Marshland
- S-1802 Randy Weston: Blue
- S-1804 George Marsh, John Abercrombie: Drum Strum
References
[edit]- ^ "Other Minds Festival 1". OtherMinds.org. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- ^ "Alumni News". Harvey Magazine. Winter 2016. p. 42.
- ^ a b c d "1750 Arch Records". JazzLists. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- ^ Taitte, W.L. (March 1976). "Beyond the Fringe". Texas Monthly. p. 45.
- ^ Penchansky, Alan (April 14, 1979). "Indie Labels Project 'Firsts'". Billboard. p. 36.
- ^ McLellan, Joseph (January 22, 1984). "Conlon Nancarrow: Piano Beyond Human Limits". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- ^ a b "Thomas Buckner Re-Enters the Record Business". NewMusic USA. April 1, 2001. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- ^ Sawyer, Phil. "Arch Records". PreCambrian Music. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
- ^ "Mutable Music: About". Mutable Music. Retrieved August 6, 2023.