The project I'd begun working on yesterday with my Newly Returned Downloading Powers is collecting the available piano performances, lectures, and other audio recordings of Arthur Loesser. (Sadly, I believe there's likely no actual film of him, but hope shall reign eternal.)
Looking through the albums posted on Discogs, there's way more of him than I'd thought. There were no studio releases I know of, so the albums listed are mostly various private pressings, and there's certainly some overlap among them. But I'm finding enough on YouTube so far to think that most of that is also going to be there for the downloading. I of course love having physical albums, so I might eventually get a few of those. I do still have the double LP album of the locally-pressed Bach French Suites and Italian Concerto I bought in the school bookstore upon arriving in Cleveland. But here's something odd -- it looks like no one's ever listed that on Discogs. Better check further, but maybe it'll be up to me to do the honors.
Anyway, it's wonderful hearing some of these downloads.
