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The Australian contact couldn't help, but I think they are now part of 
Pavilion Records in Sussex. I'll soon know.

Wayne Watson wrote:
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> Thanks. It sounds like a very good idea. I found a Pearl Records 
> reference in Australia and sent them a message to see if they could 
> help further.
>
> John Bowditch wrote:
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>> Hi Wayne,
>>
>> This is an odd suggestion but if you could get permission it would be 
>> way cool. Gustav Holst recorded the suite twice, once acoustically in 
>> 1924 and then with the electric process in 1926. The acoustic 
>> recording is better. This was transferred by Pearl Records in England 
>> and I bet they'd give you permission if you contacted them.
>> All the parts are good on this record but Mars, Saturn, Uranus, and 
>> Mercury are the best.
>> Bear in mind this is a 1920s record and there is a fair amount of 
>> surface noise but it's a powerful rendition in spite of this. It's 
>> easily my most favorite recording of the work. Holst's interpretation 
>> is brisk and not at all "sappy" which is unfortunately true of 
>> mostlater recordings.
>>
>> John Bowditch
>> Director of Exhibits
>> Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Subject: Music for an Astro DVD?
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>> A week ago I attended an amateur astronomy science meeting, and 
>> videoed about a hour or more. It was pretty much an instantaneous or 
>> impromptu request to do so on my part. I told the board of directors 
>> that I would like to show it on our local community public access TV. 
>> They agreed, but I thought I'd like to do more than just pump out a 
>> video. In fact, I'd like to make it look a bit like a promotional DVD 
>> for the organization. To that end, I would like to add some fitting 
>> music. Not much. Maybe 2-3 minutes for the lead in. Maybe something 
>> like The Planets. However, I do not want to get hung up on 
>> copyrighted material.
>>
>> Does anyone have a suggestion for a short piece that might be freely 
>> usable?  Of course, if credits are required on the video, I'd be 
>> happy to provide them. Although I'd probably prefer music, a song is 
>> fine if it's related to astronomy.
>>
>>   
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