In-good-company

We would like to extend an invitation to you and/or your colleagues or associates, to attend a free lecture-workshop and screening event at the UK's National Science and Media Museum (Bradford) in October. Entitled ‘In good Company: sound on stage and screen’, the event will be a free public lecture by Dr. Doug Reside from the New York Public Library exploring the relationship between sound technologies and the history of musical theatre recordings and includes a live acoustic recording workshop facilitated by Duncan Miller (Vulcan Records) on a 1905 Edison phonograph. This will then be followed by a screening of D.A Pennebaker’s seminal documentary Original Cast Album: Company (1970), and a brief talkback. The event is being held in the museum’s Cubby Broccoli Cinema at the National Science and Media Museum, in Bradford on Thursday 13th October 2022 and will run from 15:30pm until around 17.45pm, beginning with the lecture-workshop (1 hour) and followed by the documentary. You are very welcome to attend as much as you are able. We are also exploring a hybrid option, for those who may wish to attend the lecture-workshop, but cannot travel to Bradford at that time. To register your interest in joining online, please email mt-recordings@port.ac.uk. This event is hosted by the museum as part of the ‘Original Cast Recordings’ Research Network, funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, and led by Drs. Ben Macpherson (University of Portsmouth) and Annie Jamieson (National Science and Media Museum). It is also being held on the opening evening of the museum’s annual Widescreen Weekend Festival, and so you may also be interested in the broader programme of events available that weekend. To book your place at this event, please visit: https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/cinema/widescreen-weekend/good-company-sound-stage-and-screen and for further information about the museum's Widescreen Weekend, visit: https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/cinema/widescreen-weekend To discover more about the network, follow us on Twitter or Instagram @MT_OCRnetwork, or contact mt-recordings@port.ac.uk. Ben Macpherson Principal Investigator, ‘Original Cast Recordings: Musical Theatre and/as Sonic Heritage’