Record of Festival Music?

A Record may be made of some of the Arts Festival music, said the Arts Festival controller, John Pettigrew.

"We have about 10 hours of folk singing alone on tape," he said, "and much of it is exceptionally good."

A record of about 20 minutes a side could be produced at a cost considerably below the normal 42/6, especially if large stocks were not carried and selling was done mainly through the universities.

There was also, he said, a possibility of some of the classical music going on record, although in this case the market would need to be assessed fairly thoroughly beforehand.

Little headway has been made yet. "I am getting the tapes of talks and panels transcribed on to typescript for the proposed Arts Festival Yearbook," said Mr. Pettigrew, "and at the moment this has priority."

"We have to go through all the folk singing, find out what we have, pick out what we want, and edit it roughly for the recording studio. All this is very time-consuming, to say nothing of preparing costs and details for executive to approve the expenditure."