Endings and beginnings

[MacWage]

The Interview went well, The company is Oxford University Press (stop salivating Todd).

One of the requirements would be fairly regular trips to Cary, NC. I could deal with that.

This might be a good change, so I hope this "49er" (will be in Aug) did an adequate job on the interview.

Thanks for all your encouragement!

The HECK with Todd . . .
I'M SALIVATING!!!!!!!!!

[mddock58]

I tend to like the style of publishing they do too!

I found some interesting titles as I waited for my interview! (they have a nice "library" in their lobby)

[Alan H]

COLUMBIA MUSIC STUDIOS IS BEING SOLD!!!!!!!!!

No way...NO No No No No no No...NO!!!!

Taken apart? That place is a HUGE piece of music history! They CAN'T do that!

[mddock58]

Yes Alan, the old studio is being sold to developers.

Sony to shutter historic studios

By Marlene Naanes, amNewYork Staff Writer


June 14, 2007, 7:30 AM EDT

Citing difficult times in the recording industry, Sony BMG is closing its historic Hell's Kitchen studios, where artists such as J. Lo have recorded and movies such as "Shaft" were filmed.

The five-story red-brick building on West 54th Street and 10th Avenue will no longer house Sony Music Studios, according to an internal memo obtained by amNewYork. The June 8 memo said that employees will be terminated when the studios close in mid-to late-August.

Some employees possibly will be allowed to transfer to different parts of the company. It is unclear how many employees will be affected and what the future holds for the studio building that once housed Fox Movietone studios, where one of the first technologies to combine sound and film in the 1920s was used.

The music-industry giant is being hush-hush on the deal, only saying that Sony BMG, the studios' parent company, signed a purchase and sale agreement with a New York developer called HSAC Corp. Efforts to contact the developer were unsuccessful. It was unclear what will happen to the building.

Movies such as "Miracle on 34th Street" and television shows like the original "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" were filmed there. The studios also hosted the New York filming of "America: A Tribute to Heroes," a bi-coastal telethon that raised money for the families of Sept. 11 victims just days after the attacks.

Before Sony bought the warehouse-sized building in 1993, Camera Mart, an equipment rental company, called it home. After renovating the building, Sony Music Studios soon became a popular and high-tech recording spot.

In a 2001 article in the on-line recording industry publication Mix, Andy Kadison, the studios' senior vice president said" "We're like the millennium's version of an old-time Hollywood studio. We can do virtually every aspect of an entertainment project under one roof, ranging from audio recording, mixing, mastering, archive restoration and plant production, to television production and satellite broadcasts, to audio and video post-production."

When reached Wednesday on his cell phone, Kadison declined to comment on the sale or the future of the building. Copyright 2007 Newsday Inc.

But as for me, I have now a 2nd interview with Oxford University Press on Monday!

Life goes on!

[Alan H]

Good luck with the interview. Working IT in a University Environment...and yes I know that the Press isn't *exactly* a University Environment, but it's similar...is a very good place to be.

Re: the Hells Kitchen Studios, I don't know about that building. I was thinking of the 30th Ave studio building, Columbias recoridng "home" during the 30's and 40's.

[McMurdo]

Mark good luck on the 2nd interview, that is good news.

[gangreenfootball]

good luck

[mddock58]

Second interview with Oxford University Press went well, at least I felt it did!

We will see what happens from here.

It continues to grow dreary here at the studio as rooms are dismantled daily, and there are very few employees that remain. There will be some areas that will continue in operation through August and into September, but it is limited.

From Alan H

Re: the Hells Kitchen Studios, I don't know about that building. I was thinking of the 30th Ave studio building, Columbias recoridng "home" during the 30's and 40's.

I believe the "old studio" was closed years ago, when they moved to "the Kitchen". I find it very interesting that CBS is currently restarting "CBS" records. Though the "Columbia" label is still owned by Sony BMG. History repeats itself!

[Alan H]

Good...glad that the interview went well.

I talked to a good friend who worked in the music industry in New York for years, went to Julliard..the whole nine yards. He says that the Hells Kitchen studios opened up a little before Columbia closed the 30th ave studios, but that they overlapped only for a year or two... I find it stunning that the artricle you mentioned lists J Lo.

J Lo....

**just sick here...** J Lo

as an example of a Great American Artist that has recorded at the Hells Kitchen studios.

Never mind...oh, say Louis Armstrong, or Leonard Bernstein, or Bob Dylan or Benny Goodman or Miles Davis or any number of HUNDREDS of influential artists. Nearly all of Columbia records massive chamber music Library from the 50's through the 70's was recorded there. How about Van Cliburn? How about Itzak Perlman? How about the Columbia label recordings of Glenn Gould playing Bachs Goldberg Variations?

You don't like classical? OK, how about Miles Davis/Gil Evan Sketches of Spain? How about Dizzy Gillespie and Bird? How about John Coltrane?

But, No...J Lo recorded there.

It's enough to make me puke.

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However, congratulations on the good interviews. Fingers crossed for you, that you come through this income and attitude intact!

[The F-H.C.A.G.]

... I find it stunning that the artricle you mentioned lists J Lo.

J Lo....

**just sick here...** J Lo

...

But, No...J Lo recorded there.

It's enough to make me puke.

...

Alan, I love you.

Be well,