audio recordings

[Sibelan Forrester]

Dorogie kollegi!

I'd like to mention one wonderful possible source of high-quality
recordings of Russian poetry -- a series of radio broadcasts composed and
recorded by the pros at Karelian Radio in Petrozavodsk.  I had the chance
to visit their studio and listen to parts of several recordings -- one on
Tsvetaeva's Moscow, one on Georgii Ivanov, one on Pushkin's Lyceum verse --
and was impressed both by the quality of the readings and the polish of the
whole programs, which often include music and archival material and
wouldn't be painful for advanced students to listen to.  I tried to obtain
a list of the programs and to discuss the possibility of ordering copies of
several of them for our language resource center -- but at first the woman
responsible for all the technical angles didn't seem to know how it could
be arranged, though she seemed pleased enough by the idea, and then I
procrastinated and let her get away on otpusk.

Here is the contact information.  Perhaps if several of us try, they'll be
motivated to get the programs copied from reel-to-reel tape onto casette
and make them available abroad?

185630 Karelia, g. Petrozavodsk
ul. Pirogova, d. 2
GTRK "Karelia", Dom radio
Irina Borisovna Dekaliuk
tel (after all codes needed for Russia):  814-76-10-66

or try the Zamestitel' predsedatelia po radio:

Respublika Karelia
185630 g. Petrozavodsk
ul. Frunze, 20
Aleksandr Ivanovich Valentik
tel. (after Russia codes) 814-76-10-67


Respectfully,
Sibelan Forrester
Swarthmore College