PennSound Posts Edgar Lee Masters Audio

As we continue to celebrate the 100th year anniversary of the Spoon River Anthology, we're thrilled to see Chris Mustazza and the folks at PennSound bring out newly digitized audio recordings of Edgar Lee Masters. The recordings were made during two sessions in January and March 1934 by Barnard professors George W. Hibbitt and W. Cabell Greet at Columbia University. As Mustazza notes:

...The recordings here were originally made on aluminum platters. They were subsequently dubbed to reel-to-reel tapes by the Library of Congress in the 1978. These digitizations are made from the reels, which are stored at Columbia University. I made the decision to present the recordings in the order in which Columbia numbered the aluminum platters, except for where I reordered the sequence to keep parts of the same collection together. Sequence numbers, as well as record numbers, are available in the file names. --Chris Mustazza, University of Pennsylvania

Head over to PennSound to listen to Masters read from the Spoon River Anthology, and more! Also, if your curiosity for Masters and TSRA has yet to be quenched, check out this podcast with Curtis Fox taking a gander into Masters's best-selling collection.