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In case one doesn't want to buy it there is a good chance of obtaining this
recording ("Vladimir Nabokov at Harvard") in a public library through
interlibrary loan. A very modest suborban public library (a member of
MetroBoston Minuteman Library Network) was able to deliver it to me within a
week or so. Excellent quality and an unforgettable recording.
Vasiliy Arkanov
vasechka@msn.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Donald Barton Johnson <chtodel@humanitas.ucsb.edu>
To: NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu <NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu>
Date: Monday, January 12, 1998 5:18 PM
Subject: VN Harvard recordings (fwd)
>EDITOR's NOTE. Ryan Asmussen <rra@bu.edu>, whose band "Fathouse" recently
>made a CD "a pin,a cork, and a card" featuring a sheet of Nabokov 'blues'
>(lepidopteral) on the cover (and disk). The VN tapes he describes below
>are excellent, although of varying technical quality.
>-----------------------------------------
>
>A most excellent series of
>Nabokov recordings is available through the Lamont Poetry Room at Harvard
>University, and is entitled, "Vladimir Nabokov At Harvard". I hope it's
>still available, in any case -- I purchased my copy for $24.00, a little
>under three years ago. I believe I first learned of their existence
>through Brian Boyd's "VN: The American Years", if I'm not mistaken, and
>then inquired at the Poetry Room in person. Below is the "Table of
>Contents", and here is a brief snippet from the liner notes:
>
>"In 1952 Nabokov was invited to Harvard by Professor Harry T. Levin and
>others as a visiting professor. He taught an undergraduate lecture course
>in the novel and did research on Pushkin in Widener Library. It was during
>this period that his son Dmitri was an undergraduate at Harvard, and that
>the Poetry Room recorded both public and studio readings by Nabokov."
>
>"... in 1964, he read his work before a capacity audience in Sanders
>Theater, where he had lectured in 1952. This reading is also included in
>these cassettes, complete with its eloquent introduction by Harry Levin."
>
>TABLE OF CONTENTS
>
>Side 1: Recorded April 10, 1964
> Duration 40:10
>
> 1. Introduction by Harry Levin
> 2. The Ballad of Longwood Glen
> 3. Prose excerpt from Pale Fire
>
>Side 2: Recorded April 10, 1964
> Duration 28:35
>
> 4. Verse excerpt from Pale Fire
> 5. Rain
> 6. A Lecture on Russian Poetry
> 7. Poem from Lolita
>
>Side 3: Recorded March 20, 1952
> Duration 31:30
>
> 8. Exile
> 9. A Literary Dinner
> 10. The Refrigerator Awakes
> 11. A Discovery
> 12. The Room
> 13. The Pleasures of Touch
> 14. Restoration
> 15. The Poem
>
> Recorded March 19, 1952
>
> (Read in English and Russian)
> 16. To My Youth
>
> Recorded March 20, 1952
>
> 17. The Poplar
> 18. The Translator
>
> (Read in English)
> 19. House of Exile, by Aleksandr Pushkin
>
>Side 4: Recorded March 20, 1952
> Duration 22:50
>
> (Read in English)
> 20. Tears, by Fyodor Tyutchev
> 21. The Shattered Oak Tree, by Fyodor Tyutchev
> 22. The Deaf-Mute Demons, by Fyodor Tyutchev
> 23. A Heavy Cross, by Nikolay Nekrasov
>
> Recorded April 14, 1946
>
> (Read in English and Russian)
> 24. Silentium, by Fyodor Tyutchev
> 25. Last Love, by Fyodor Tyutchev
> 26. The Journey, by Fyodor Tyutchev
> 27. Tears, by Fyodor Tyutchev
> 28. The Upas Tree, by Aleksandr Pushkin
> 29. Exegi Monumentum, by Aleksandr Pushkin
>
>Copyright, 1988 AR 3B Trust Under Will of Vladimir Nabokov.
>Copyright, 1988 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
>
>
>
>
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>Ryan Asmussen
>Administrative Assistant, Faculty Services
>Boston University School of Law
>765 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 1040
>Boston, MA 02215
>email: rra@acs.bu.edu
>
>"There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems
>to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about
>the universe."
>
>-- John Updike, from "A Few Words in Defense of the Amateur Reader" (1984)
>
>
>
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>
recording ("Vladimir Nabokov at Harvard") in a public library through
interlibrary loan. A very modest suborban public library (a member of
MetroBoston Minuteman Library Network) was able to deliver it to me within a
week or so. Excellent quality and an unforgettable recording.
Vasiliy Arkanov
vasechka@msn.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Donald Barton Johnson <chtodel@humanitas.ucsb.edu>
To: NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu <NABOKV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu>
Date: Monday, January 12, 1998 5:18 PM
Subject: VN Harvard recordings (fwd)
>EDITOR's NOTE. Ryan Asmussen <rra@bu.edu>, whose band "Fathouse" recently
>made a CD "a pin,a cork, and a card" featuring a sheet of Nabokov 'blues'
>(lepidopteral) on the cover (and disk). The VN tapes he describes below
>are excellent, although of varying technical quality.
>-----------------------------------------
>
>A most excellent series of
>Nabokov recordings is available through the Lamont Poetry Room at Harvard
>University, and is entitled, "Vladimir Nabokov At Harvard". I hope it's
>still available, in any case -- I purchased my copy for $24.00, a little
>under three years ago. I believe I first learned of their existence
>through Brian Boyd's "VN: The American Years", if I'm not mistaken, and
>then inquired at the Poetry Room in person. Below is the "Table of
>Contents", and here is a brief snippet from the liner notes:
>
>"In 1952 Nabokov was invited to Harvard by Professor Harry T. Levin and
>others as a visiting professor. He taught an undergraduate lecture course
>in the novel and did research on Pushkin in Widener Library. It was during
>this period that his son Dmitri was an undergraduate at Harvard, and that
>the Poetry Room recorded both public and studio readings by Nabokov."
>
>"... in 1964, he read his work before a capacity audience in Sanders
>Theater, where he had lectured in 1952. This reading is also included in
>these cassettes, complete with its eloquent introduction by Harry Levin."
>
>TABLE OF CONTENTS
>
>Side 1: Recorded April 10, 1964
> Duration 40:10
>
> 1. Introduction by Harry Levin
> 2. The Ballad of Longwood Glen
> 3. Prose excerpt from Pale Fire
>
>Side 2: Recorded April 10, 1964
> Duration 28:35
>
> 4. Verse excerpt from Pale Fire
> 5. Rain
> 6. A Lecture on Russian Poetry
> 7. Poem from Lolita
>
>Side 3: Recorded March 20, 1952
> Duration 31:30
>
> 8. Exile
> 9. A Literary Dinner
> 10. The Refrigerator Awakes
> 11. A Discovery
> 12. The Room
> 13. The Pleasures of Touch
> 14. Restoration
> 15. The Poem
>
> Recorded March 19, 1952
>
> (Read in English and Russian)
> 16. To My Youth
>
> Recorded March 20, 1952
>
> 17. The Poplar
> 18. The Translator
>
> (Read in English)
> 19. House of Exile, by Aleksandr Pushkin
>
>Side 4: Recorded March 20, 1952
> Duration 22:50
>
> (Read in English)
> 20. Tears, by Fyodor Tyutchev
> 21. The Shattered Oak Tree, by Fyodor Tyutchev
> 22. The Deaf-Mute Demons, by Fyodor Tyutchev
> 23. A Heavy Cross, by Nikolay Nekrasov
>
> Recorded April 14, 1946
>
> (Read in English and Russian)
> 24. Silentium, by Fyodor Tyutchev
> 25. Last Love, by Fyodor Tyutchev
> 26. The Journey, by Fyodor Tyutchev
> 27. Tears, by Fyodor Tyutchev
> 28. The Upas Tree, by Aleksandr Pushkin
> 29. Exegi Monumentum, by Aleksandr Pushkin
>
>Copyright, 1988 AR 3B Trust Under Will of Vladimir Nabokov.
>Copyright, 1988 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
>
>
>
>
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>Ryan Asmussen
>Administrative Assistant, Faculty Services
>Boston University School of Law
>765 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 1040
>Boston, MA 02215
>email: rra@acs.bu.edu
>
>"There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems
>to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about
>the universe."
>
>-- John Updike, from "A Few Words in Defense of the Amateur Reader" (1984)
>
>
>
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>