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Reel 1

ID: KA0108_RR07
Year: Unknown

1. • Side 1, Track 1
   • DannyBoyJubileeChorus.mp3
   • Length: 2m 26s
   • Status:

   • A recording of the Jubilee Chorus singing “Danny Boy” over a recording of the song.
2. • Side 1, Track 2
   • JubileeChatter.mp3
   • Length: 41s
   • Status:

   • Voices of “Jubilee” magazine captured at a party. Newcomer Anne Robertson is encouraged to take the mic.
3. • Side 1, Track 3
   • LaxandPaulineHolemanReadAPoem.mp3
   • Length: 30s
   • Status:

   • Robert Lax and friend / “Jubilee” magazine colleague Pauline Holeman read a poem.
4. • Side 1, Track 4
   • JubileeChatter2.mp3
   • Length: 2m 01s
   • Status:

   • “Jubilee” poets read as a voice cries “No more, no more.” Anne Robertson is encourgaed to read.
5. • Side 1, Track 5
   • JubileeChoirWhenIrishEyesAreSmiling.mp3
   • Length: 41s
   • Status:

   • The Jubilee Chorus sings a verse of “When Irish Eyes are Smiling”
6. • Side 1, Track 6
   • NBCCommunityCheckers.mp3
   • Length: 5m 30s
   • Status:

   • Catherine Antonucci, Emil Antonucci's sister, is a contestant on the radio show “Community Checkers.”
7. • Side 1, Track 7
   • NBCHornOutro.mp3
   • Length: 16s
   • Status:

   • “Community Checkers” outro.
8. • Side 1, Track 8
   • PianoTrack1.mp3
   • Length: 8m 34s
   • Status:

   • An unknown artist plays an improvisational piece of music. This is the first of many of these recordings found on Antonucci's reels. No one affiliated with Antonucci has claimed to know this music, nor have they identified the player.
9. • Side 2, Track 1
   • BrerFox.mp3
   • Length: 36s
   • Status:

   • An unidentified voice performs a dialogue from “Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear,” from “Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation,” 1881, adapted by Joel Chandler Harris. For some context on the legacy and impact of Harris's collection and adaptation of African American folktales, please see Robert Siegel, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Maria Tatar, 'Annotated African American Folktales' Reclaims Stories Passed Down From Slavery, NPR.
10. • Side 2, Track 2
    • QuickRedFox.mp3
    • Length: 17s
    • Status:

    • An unidentified voice reads a nursery rhyme.
11. • Side 2, Track 3
    • RomeoRomeo.mp3
    • Length: 15s
    • Status:

    • An unidentified voice performs as Juliet from Shakespeare's “Romeo and Juliet.”
12. • Side 2, Track 4
    • ShakespeareMedley.mp3
    • Length: 2m 48s
    • Status:

    • An unidentified voice reads from an assortment of Shakespearean plays.
13. • Side 2, Track 5
    • Strings.mp3
    • Length: 4m 29s
    • Status:

    • An unidentified classical strings track.
14. • Side 2, Track 6
    • TchaikovskyCapriccioItalien.mp3
    • Length: 16m 06s
    • Status:

    • A recording of Tchaikovsky's “Capriccio Italien.”
15. • Side 2, Track 7
    • TheWondersOfTheWorld.mp3
    • Length: 46s
    • Status:

    • An unidentified voice reads about the “Wonders of the World” accompanied by classical string music.
16. • Side 2, Track 8
    • UnidentifiedBaroque&LatinTrack.mp3
    • Length: 4m 29s
    • Status:

    • An unidentified baroque track plays as a voice sings a song in Latin.
17. • Side 2, Track 9
    • UnknownDistortedStringsTrackLowSpeed.mp3
    • Length: 1m 04s
    • Status:

    • An unidentified and distorted string tracks played at a low speed.
18. • Side 2, Track 10
    • VoicesandVocabularyStringsDub.mp3
    • Length: 4m 39s
    • Status:

    • An experimental piece in which an unidentified voice recites words and their definitions over another recording of words and definitions, accompanied by strings.
19. • Side 2, Track 11
    • ShortStringsSample.mp3
    • Length: 12s
    • Status:

    • “Wickedness” and a short strings sample.
20. • Side 2, Track 12
    • ComposersCorner.mp3
    • Length: 3m 00s
    • Status:

    • “Composers Corner” was a radio show in New York during the 1950s that featured classical music, broadway musicals, and avant garde and jazz performers. Antonucci recorded many of his favourite tracks that he heard on the radio, suggesting that he saved them to listen to again or perhaps used them as inspiration for his film scores.
21. • Side 2, Track 13
    • WhatchaTalkinBout.mp3
    • Length: 06s
    • Status:

    • An unidentified voice makes a loud proclamation.

Reel 2

ID: KA0108_RR04
Year: 1958

1. • Side 1, Track 1
   • DabblingInTheDew.mp3
   • Length: 4m 15s
   • Status:

   • A recording of “Dabbling in the Dew” by Alfred Deller & The Deller Consort with the sound of instructional French language tapes recorded over top. Antonucci travelled to France for the first time in 1958 on a Fulbright scholarship. In other tracks found on the reel, you can hear Antonucci practicing his French.
2. • Side 1, Track 2
   • GossipGirls.mp3
   • Length: 1m 16s
   • Status:

   • A recording of the voices of young women as they set up the tape machine. During the process, a personal question is asked, causing a roar of laughter. “Lord Randall” performed by Alfred Deller and an instructional French language tape are recorded over this track. Perhaps Antonucci had left these youngsters unsupervised and later discovered the humorous recording.
3. • Side 1, Track 3
   • JustAsTheTideWasAFlowing.mp3
   • Length: 2m 37s
   • Status:

   • A recording of “Just as the Tide Was A-Flowing” performed by Alfred Deller and the Deller Consort. It also features the instructional French language tape.
4. • Side 1, Track 4
   • LordRendall.mp3
   • Length: 2m 37s
   • Status:

   • The first half of “Lord Randall” performed by Alfred Deller & Desmond Dupree. This is the first half of the recording before the song is interrupted by the young women on the “Gossip Girls” track.
5. • Side 1, Track 5
   • LordRendallCont.mp3
   • Length: 1m 48s
   • Status:

   • This is the second half of the recording of “Lord Randall,” post “Gossip Girls” interruption. It includes the French language instructional tape.
6. • Side 1, Track 6
   • MorningDewAndSearchingForLambs.mp3
   • Length: 5m 31s
   • Status:

   • A recording of “Blow Away the Morning Dew” and “Searching for Lambs” performed by Alfred Deller & Desmond Dupree. It includes the French language instructional tape.
7. • Side 1, Track 7
   • PianoTrack1.mp3
   • Length: 2m 39s
   • Status:

   • An unidentified piano player performs an improvisational piece.
8. • Side 1, Track 8
   • SeedsOfLove.mp3
   • Length: 3m 57s
   • Status:

   • A recording of “The Seeds of Love” performed by Alfred Deller & Desmond Dupree, recorded over an unidentified, sped-up classical strings track.
9. • Side 1, Track 9
   • SweetEngland.mp3
   • Length: 3m 05s
   • Status:

   • A recording of “Sweet England” by Alfred Deller & Desmond Dupree. This track includes the French language instructional tape.
10. • Side 1, Track 10
    • SweetJane.mp3
    • Length: 2m 40s
    • Status:

    • A recording of “Sweet Jane” performed by Alfred Deller & Desmond Dupree. This track includes the French language instructional tape.
11. • Side 1, Track 11
    • TheFrogandMouse.mp3
    • Length: 1m 51s
    • Status:

    • A recording of “The Frog and Mouse” performed by Alfred Deller & Desmond Dupree, recorded over an unidentified, sped-up classical strings track.
12. • Side 1, Track 12
    • TheWraggleTaggleGypsies.mp3
    • Length: 3m 26s
    • Status:

    • A recording of “The Wraggle Taggle Gypsies” performed by Alfred Deller & Desmond Dupree. This track includes the French language instructional tape.
13. • Side 1, Track 13
    • UnknownWoodwindTrack1.mp3
    • Length: 2m 26s
    • Status:

    • An unidentified woodwind track that features a lively variety of flutes. This track includes the French language instructional tape.
14. • Side 1, Track 14
    • UnknownWoodwindTrack2.mp3
    • Length: 2m 19s
    • Status:

    • An unidentified woodwind track that features a variety of flutes playing a mournful song. This track includes the French language instructional tape.
15. • Side 1, Track 15
    • UnknownWoodwindTrack3.mp3
    • Length: 2m 05s
    • Status:

    • An unidentified woodwind track that features a variety of flutes playing a pleasant tune. This track includes the French language instructional tape.
16. • Side 1, Track 16
    • UnknownWoodwindTrack4.mp3
    • Length: 40s
    • Status:

    • An unidentified woodwind track that features a variety of flutes playing a romantic tune, which is abruptly cut off.

Reel 3

ID: KA0108_RR05
Year: 1958

1. • Side 1, Track 1
   • FrenchPractice.mp3
   • Length: 55s
   • Status:

   • This track includes Antonucci practicing his French to a French language instructional tape. Antonucci travelled to Europre several times in the late 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s to particpate in exhibitions and visit Robert Lax.
2. • Side 1, Track 2
   • LittlePrince.mp3
   • Length: 6m 12s
   • Status:

   • This track includes a unidentified voice reading the “Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It is the same unidentified voice from Reel 1, Side 2. It may belong to Antonucci's friend Ruth Cullen, who was passionate about theatre.
3. • Side 1, Track 3
   • TapePops.mp3
   • Length: 13s
   • Status:

   • This track is for those who enjoy the sound of reel-to-reel tape texture.
4. • Side 1, Track 4
   • UnknownDistortedStringsTrackLowSpeed.mp3
   • Length: 1m 43s
   • Status:

   • An unidentified piece of classical music played at a slow speed.
5. • Side 1, Track 5
   • UnknownDistortedStringsTrackLowSpeedTrack2.mp3
   • Length: 1m 04s
   • Status:

   • An unidentified piece of classical music played at a slow speed.
6. • Side 1, Track 6
   • UnknownStringsTrackVaryingSpeeds.mp3
   • Length: 2m 34s
   • Status:

   • An unidentified piece of classical music played at a high and slow speed.
7. • Side 2, Track 1
   • PianoTrack1.mp3
   • Length: 3m 03s
   • Status:

   • An unidentified piano player performs an improvisational piece.
8. • Side 2, Track 2
   • PianoTrack2.mp3
   • Length: 3m 05s
   • Status:

   • An unidentified piano player performs an improvisational piece.
9. • Side 2, Track 3
   • PianoTrack3.mp3
   • Length: 3m 18s
   • Status:

   • An unidentified piano player performs an improvisational piece.
10. • Side 2, Track 4
    • PianoTrack4.mp3
    • Length: 47s
    • Status:

    • An unidentified piano player performs an improvisational piece.
11. • Side 2, Track 5
    • PianoTrack5.mp3
    • Length: 2m 23s
    • Status:

    • An unidentified piano player performs an improvisational piece.
12. • Side 2, Track 6
    • PianoTrack6.mp3
    • Length: 1m 24s
    • Status:

    • An unidentified piano player performs an improvisational piece.
13. • Side 2, Track 7
    • PianoTrack7.mp3
    • Length: 3m 05s
    • Status:

    • An unidentified piano player performs an improvisational piece.

Reel 4

ID: KA0108_RR06
Year: Unknown

1. • Side 1, Track 1
   • EmilFrenchPractice.mp3
   • Length: 4m 29s
   • Status:

   • Antonucci practices his French to a French language instructional tape. This tape becomes oddly distorted as the sound of the reel-to-reel machine drowns out the speech.
2. • Side 1, Track 2
   • LatinHymnFrenchDub.mp3
   • Length: 1m 41s
   • Status:

   • Antonucci practices his French to a French language instructional tape as an unidentified voice sings a Latin hymn.
3. • Side 1, Track 3
   • MysteriousSinger.mp3
   • Length: 104s
   • Status:

   • An unidentified singer performs a variety of popular songs and hymns. You can hear this singer moving around the room, knocking things over, and using a sink. Perhaps this performer was singing in Antonucci's studio while taking care of chores, and Antonucci thought it would be worth recording. Or perhaps the singer is Antonucci himself, although sources that knew him have said they never heard him sing.
4. • Side 1, Track 4
   • SaySomethingClever.mp3
   • Length: 45s
   • Status:

   • This candid track features Antonucci showing his reel-to-reel tape to some guests. He encourages them to “say something clever.”
5. • Side 1, Track 5
   • TheLittlePrinceChpt2.mp3
   • Length: 11m 00s
   • Status:

   • This track features an unidentified voice reading Chapter 2 of “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. This voice is the same voice found in Reel 1, Side 2 and Reel 3, Side 1.
6. • Side 1, Track 6
   • 6.mp3
   • Length: 11m 59s
   • Status:

   • An unidentified voice reads Chapter 6 of “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. This voice is the same voice found in Reel 1, Side 2 and Reel 3, Side 1.
7. • Side 1, Track 7
   • UnknownDistortedTrack.mp3
   • Length: 3m 22s
   • Status:

   • An extremely distorted, unidientified classical piece. It sounds as though the volume of Antonucci's radio or record player was set too high, causing the audio to clip.
8. • Side 2, Track 1
   • PianoTrack1.mp3
   • Length: 2m 30s
   • Status:

   • An unidentified piano player performs an improvisational piece. Intent listeners can hear car horns as well as voices in the audio.
9. • Side 2, Track 2
   • PianoTrack2.mp3
   • Length: 2m 56s
   • Status:

   • An unidentified piano player performs an improvisational piece.
10. • Side 2, Track 3
    • PianoTrack3.mp3
    • Length: 2m 30s
    • Status:

    • An unidentified piano player performs an improvisational piece.
11. • Side 2, Track 4
    • PianoTrack4.mp3
    • Length: 3m 39s
    • Status:

    • An unidentified piano player performs an improvisational piece. This particular track features an especially atonal and somewhat spooky performance with neighbours' voices present in the background.
12. • Side 2, Track 5
    • PianoTrack5.mp3
    • Length: 2m 53s
    • Status:

    • An unidentified piano player performs an improvisational piece.
13. • Side 2, Track 6
    • PianoTrack6.mp3
    • Length: 2m 20s
    • Status:

    • An unidentified piano player performs an improvisational piece.
14. • Side 2, Track 7
    • PianoTrack7.mp3
    • Length: 1m 54s
    • Status:

    • An unidentified piano player performs an improvisational piece, but is interrupted by the ringing of a telephone.
15. • Side 2, Track 8
    • PianoTrack8.mp3
    • Length: 2m 46s
    • Status:

    • An unidentified piano player performs an especially lively improvisational piece.
16. • Side 2, Track 9
    • PianoTrack9.mp3
    • Length: 5m 10s
    • Status:

    • An unidentified piano player performs an improvisational piece.
17. • Side 2, Track 10
    • TelephoneRing.mp3
    • Length: 03s
    • Status:

    • An isolated sample of the telephone ring heard on Piano Track 7, Reel 4, Side 2.

Reel 5

ID: KA108_RR001
Year: Unknown

1. • Side 1, Track 1
   • BritishVoice.mp3
   • Length: 4m 17s
   • Status:

   • A woman recites some dialogue, which is recorded over with more dialogue recited by the same woman. The voice is unidentified, thought I though it could perhaps be the voice of Antonucci's close friend Nicola Wood, who he met in the late 1960s. When I asked her about these recordings, she could not recall if the voice is hers or not.
2. • Side 1, Track 2
   • ChekovsSeagullCarmendub.mp3
   • Length: 1m 06s
   • Status:

   • A recording of a song from “The Seagull,” an opera by Thomas Pasatieri based on the play by Anton Chekhov. It premiered in 1974. A performance of “Carmen” by Georges Bizet can also be heard in this recording.
3. • Side 1, Track 3
   • ChekovsSeagullDramadub.mp3
   • Length: 148s
   • Status:

   • A recording of a song from “The Seagull,” an opera by Thomas Pasatieri based on the play by Anton Chekhov. This recording also features other opera performances, such as Giuseppe Verdi's “Il travatore,” the “Seguidilla” from Bizet's “Carmen,” and a part of Richard Wagner's “Ring” cycle.
4. • Side 1, Track 4
   • HelenafromUncleVanya.mp3
   • Length: 40s
   • Status:

   • An unidentified voice reads as Helena from “Uncle Vanya” by Anton Chekhov.
5. • Side 1, Track 5
   • NoDavid.mp3
   • Length: 20s
   • Status:

   • Antonucci is heard disciplining his nephew David.
6. • Side 1, Track 6
   • ProjectMercuryTickerTapeParade1963.mp3
   • Length: 5m 38s
   • Status:

   • This is a radio recording of the Ticker Tape Parade put on by the city of New York to honor the astronauts of the Project Mercury space missions, which ran from 1958 to 1963. This parade occurred in 1962.
7. • Side 1, Track 7
   • Rumpelstiltskin.mp3
   • Length: 2m 32s
   • Status:

   • A recording of Antonucci and a friend telling the tale of Rumpelstiltskin. This friend is the same unidentified voice that is in other recordings found on this tape.
8. • Side 1, Track 8
   • UncleVanyaContinued.mp3
   • Length: 1m 26s
   • Status:

   • An unidentified voice continues to read as Helena from “Uncle Vanya” by Anton Chekhov.
9. • Side 1, Track 9
   • YaDontSmellItYaDrinkIt.mp3
   • Length: 5m 13s
   • Status:

   • An unidentified voice reads humourous dialogue.
10. • Side 2, Track 1
    • AnchorsAweighDontSitUnderTheAppleTreeWaltzingMatilda.mp3
    • Length: 2m 26s
    • Status:

    • A radio recording of a medley of “Anchors Aweigh,” “Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree,” and “Waltzing Matilda” by Walter Ducloux and His Orchestra.
11. • Side 2, Track 2
    • MGMFamousArtistsOutro.mp3
    • Length: 56s
    • Status:

    • A radio recording of the MGM Famous Artists Recital outro.
12. • Side 2, Track 3
    • SomewhereOverTheRainbow.mp3
    • Length: 2m 31s
    • Status:
13. • Side 2, Track 4
    • VoiCheSapete.mp3
    • Length: 2m 53s
    • Status:

    • A radio recording of “Voi che sapete” from “The Marriage of Figaro” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, performed by Eileen Farrell.
14. • Side 2, Track 5
    • MyHeartAtThySweetVoice.mp3
    • Length: 2m 32s
    • Status:

    • A radio recording of “My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice” by Walter Ducloux and His Orchestra.
15. • Side 2, Track 6
    • SpedUpPiano.mp3
    • Length: 2m 15s
    • Status:

    • An unidentified piano song set at double speed.

Reel 6

ID: KA108_RR002
Year: 1962

1. • Side 1, Track 1
   • BalconiesPoem.mp3
   • Length: 33s
   • Status:

   • These ten tracks contain original poetry. This Journeyman artist has yet to be identified, but it may be the voice of Robert “Wolf” Kachnowski.
2. • Side 1, Track 2
   • BarnPoem.mp3
   • Length: 35s
   • Status:
3. • Side 1, Track 3
   • BearPoem.mp3
   • Length: 42s
   • Status:
4. • Side 1, Track 4
   • BurialPoem.mp3
   • Length: 54s
   • Status:
5. • Side 1, Track 5
   • JourneyPoem.mp3
   • Length: 1m 45s
   • Status:
6. • Side 1, Track 6
   • LovesongPoem.mp3
   • Length: 39s
   • Status:
7. • Side 1, Track 7
   • OnTheDayOfYourBirthPoem.mp3
   • Length: 1m 11s
   • Status:
8. • Side 1, Track 8
   • OriginPoem.mp3
   • Length: 54s
   • Status:
9. • Side 1, Track 9
   • PoemsTakeOne.mp3
   • Length: 05s
   • Status:
10. • Side 1, Track 10
    • QuietLionPoem.mp3
    • Length: 59s
    • Status:
11. • Side 1, Track 11
    • TheDesertPoem.mp3
    • Length: 54s
    • Status: