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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!
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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!
Mark Dockendorf
Left on the Right Coast
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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.
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Mark good luck on the 2nd interview, that is good news.
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Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. Benjamin Franklin
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Mark Twain
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10th July 07, 06:17 AM
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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!
Mark Dockendorf
Left on the Right Coast
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11th July 07, 11:17 AM
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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!
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11th July 07, 09:07 PM
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 Originally Posted by Alan H
... 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.
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Alan, I love you.
Be well,
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12th July 07, 06:12 AM
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 Originally Posted by Alan H
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.
Well while I was here I saw Pavarotti, David Bowie, Aerosmith, Beyonce, Wynton Marsalis, Harry Connick Jr., Neil Diamond, and many more.
It was always fun to see people walking down the street realize that the person walking in front of them with a coffee is Steven Tyler, and watching their jaw hit the ground!
I almost "ran over" Renée Zellweger as she was coming out of a studio after a rehearsal/session (for Chicago). Being 6'2" I almost didn't see her!
J Lo was here quite a bit, but I don't think of her as a foundation of the studio.
Actually I'm not one to "drop names" in general, (as well I do not ogle over celebrities, though I enjoy talking to some of them) but looking back it's been a great job!
Mark Dockendorf
Left on the Right Coast
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12th July 07, 06:52 AM
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Years and years ago when I worked for Soundstream (the Original digital audio Soundstream not the car radio company) I did a mixdown / edit at the CBS studios. It was Kabalevski and Shostakovich cello concertos with Yoyo Ma as the cellist.
This was in the early days of digital. Soundstream sampled at 50kHz, Sony at 44.1kHz. So this mixdown was, in part, the "dirty" way of doing the sampling frequency conversion - mixdown to analog stereo and record that to digital at the other sampling frequency. The clean way is all digital.
I remember spending the better part of a day rewinding and playing the same fifteen second segmant over and over and over again while the producer tweaked various levels to get that phrase to sound just as he wanted it to sound. I can still identify that phrase when I play the CD.
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