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William Noll is a conductor, pianist and performance veteran of concert halls across the world. He is the Artistic Director for StayInMay Festival, Classic Chamber Concerts, the Fifth Avenue Chamber Orchestra, and guest conductor for Opera Naples. As well, he is the Music Director and Conductor of the Bach Ensemble. He has conducted symphonic, choral and operatic repertoire from Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, to festivals and tours in Italy, Belgium, Costa Rica, and China. Noll's catalog of commercial recordings includes choral, symphonic and jazz repertoire on a number of different labels.
Regional peasant and folk instrumental ensemble music.
Equipment: Stellavox SP-7 open reel recorder, AKG CK2 mics, mostly Ampex 407 tape (the following tapes are deteriorating in quality and have defective sound: #4, 12, 13, 40, 62 (9/89))
Dissertation title: Peasant Music Ensembles in Poland: A Culture History (University of Washington, 1986)
Link to dissertation: http://search.proquest.com/docview/303447074?accountid=14784
Tapes 1 through 50 digitized in 2015 (WAV, 48kHz, 24-bit)
Additional contents information stored with digital audio files: 86-23_Noll Guide and 86-23_Noll Notes
Documentation: Photocopies of tape box notes and relevant appendices from dissertation
Millard B. Rogers/speaker; Shigeo Kishibe/speaker; Robert Garfias/speaker; Mantle Hood/paper. See logsheet for detailed contents description.