Notes on the recordings and making these CDs.

Thirty-four years after graduation, while unpacking long forgotten boxes, I came across a pile of reel-to-reel tapes. Three of them made up the 1973 June Week Cadet Chorale Concert. These tapes are copies of the original reel-to-reel tapes made on the Arnold Hall sound system. After at least a dozen moves I feel luck to still have them; I was  not so fortunate with my A-jacket, it went missing years ago. I borrowed a reel-to-reel tape deck from a colleague at work and digitized the recordings. During the editing I tried to remain faithful to the original recordings, the only portions I removed were isolated coughs and extended silences. I did use some advanced audio signal processing to remove clicks, pops, background hiss, and reconstruct clipped waveforms. Scans of the program from the 1973 June Week Cadet Chorale Concert are included as image files on this CD.

The recording of the Gloria from Mr. Boyd's Opus1 is, to the best of my recollection, from the 1971 June Week Cadet Chorale Concert. This recording was made from the audience from my personal reel-to-reel tape deck. I included this because it is the only composition of Mr. Boyd's that we ever performed.

Again, to the best of my recollection, the Chorale recorded the Christmas carols during the Fall of 1970. I remember the bus ride to Denver and going through take after take in the recording studio. Photographs of the front and back of the LP sleeve are included as image files on this CD.

If you can confirm or correct my "recollections:, or if you have recordings of any particular selection you would like included in a revised edition of this collection, please let me know. I hope you will get as much enjoyment from listening to these CDs as I have from putting them together.

Brian Beard

10600 Lilac Place

Silver Spring MD 20903