Broadcast CDs Available

A reader mentioned the following: "Just wanted to let anyone interested know that copies [of the radio program] are available for purchase on cd from University of Wyoming American Heritage Center" Will post more details as they become available.

Bill Wacker (Mar 18, 2007)

I remember well the Dekoven Concerts and the Barracoco Society of which I became a member in the early 60's. I listened to him on classical station WNCN (now defunct - replaced with the usual rock junk) in New York. I had the privilege to meet him at one of his lectures at Town Hall in NYC; his presentation was accompanied by the flutists Theodore & Dorothy Schultz. Before its start, My wife and I met him outside and we chatted a while while sitting on the curb! He was a truely unique personality and greatly missed.

Bill Wacker
williamwacker3@yahoo.com

Philip Smith (Aug. 13, 2006)

DeKoven woke me up to OTW music via KDNA in St. Louis. The signal reached the forty miles to Principia College where I loved hearing his show. I can still hear his voice and his great style. DeKoven and PDQ Bach double-handedly (quadruple-handedly?) brought life back to the pre-Classical musical era.

Philip Smith

Barry Buehler (July 25, 2006)

I will be forever grateful for D's radio mentoring.

I wish I had some tapes, but somewhere, I do have (somewhere !!) one of his mini-writing postcards. Between DeKoven and Jean Shepherd, New York radio had a tremendous influence on me.

I remember that he had a business relationship with conductor Max Goberman to issue all the Haydn symphonies through a society or record club, the name of which I can't recall. I do remember having a childish thrill one day when I passed
a building (I believe in Westchester, NY off the New England Thruway) with a sign indicating that it was the society headquarters. I enjoyed the few recordings I purchased.

Does anyone recall the name of this organization/record club ?

Barry Buehler

Ruth L. Jackson (June 1, 2006)

If this is still a legitimate email address, let me know. I loved, ABSOLUTELY LOVED, DeKoven, and I have a picture I took of him in Boston which you will love.
I carried his legendary bumper sticker "VIVA VIVALDI" on my car for many years, and supported his program, "DE KOVEN PRESENTS." I even wrote him a poem.
Ruth L. Jackson.

Allen Allison (Apr. 19, 2006)

Hi,

I was pleased to find a page dedicated to Seymour DeKoven (I never knew until now what his first name was!). I have very fond memories of listening to "DeKoven Presents" when I was a kid, from about 1965 to 1973, when I left home for college. I listened on WGH-FM in Hampton Roads, VA. DeKoven helped me to develop and cultivate my musical tastes, which still essentially embrace the "Barococo" period. I can't overemphasize how important DeKoven's "labor of love" was in shaping and influencing my early musicological education! I wrote him several times and (eventually!) received some plain postcards back from him with added personal notes.

I noticed that there's a nice article about DeKoven on the Wikipedia site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_DeKoven .

I wish that some of his nearly 600 shows could be put on CD and made available to his affectionate and appreciative listeners. DeKoven, you're OTC (literally now, I guess!)!

Thanks,
Allen Allison
Encinitas, CA

Peter hendrickson (Mar. 21, 2006)

Has anyone ever considered putting recordings of dekoven’s radio programs into a form which could be listened to on the web? When I lived in nyc in the early 60’s I loved listening to his show..very informative and lots of good listening…I may have some reel/reel tapes of some of his programs…I am planning to go through my tapes to see what can be salvaged and saved…

Peter hendrickson