Alyce Mott, who is the USA's biggest Victor Herbert champion and progenitor of the Victor Herbert Renaissance project, emailed me to inquire about the materials from my 2011 recording of Eileen. Well, the recording parts, if they still exist, sit in Dublin, and nop work was ever done after the recording to update the files and orchestra parts because the foundation had no interest beyond the recording. I was writing back to Alyce when I remembered that several years ago my dear friend Peter Foley, who died two years ago from eye cancer, and I had begun a project to update the Eileen materials so that he could own the edited sacores and parts and hopefully draw an income from the materials for himself or his family in case he became unable to work or died. We did an edition of the Overture for a concert in 2016, and the parts and score happened to be in my emails as a zip file. I sent it to Alyce and told her she could have it with my blessing. So, Peter and I are now part of the Victor Herbert Renaissance.
