Basic information about the Archive, including access, contacts, directions, and parking.
Libraries
Brief Music Library information including contacts, access, hours, transit, and parking.
Blogs
- Spotlight on: Medici.tv | May 2, 2013
- Psychedelic therapy: Betty Grover Eisner and LSD | April 29, 2013
- New services at the Archive of Recorded Sound | April 15, 2013
- Spotlight on: Schumann's Dichterliebe | April 4, 2013
- Fred Ross Sr. audio digitization completed | April 3, 2013
Notable collections
Recordings of live performances throughout the history of this enduring American cultural institution.
The Heifetz Collection features recordings by the violinist and a rare unpublished recording by Leopold Auer.
The Menuhin Collection contains many test pressings of Menuhin's performances as a violin soloist.
The Mario Ancona Collection includes photographs, memorabilia, sound recordings, and more related to Ancona's career.
Tenor Mario Chamlee sang at the leading opera houses in the United States and abroad. His wife Ruth was a soprano and noted singing teacher.
This is the personal collection of Theodore Fagan, United Nations translator, author, and music collector.
Kirsten Flagstad (1895-1962) was known as the premier Wagnerian soprano of her time.
Open reel tape recordings made by documentary filmmaker, photographer, ethnographer, and historian Richard Sterling Finnie.
Riverwalk Jazz: Live At The Landing educated and entertained public radio listeners with a program devoted to celebrating traditional jazz and popular music of the pre-war era.
The Happy Jazz Band was formed in 1962 by Jim Cullum with his son, Jim Cullum, Jr. in San Antonio, Texas.
Files of the organizational departments of the Ambassador Auditorium as well as audio and video recordings.
Transcripts of interviews with Civil Rights workers in the South recorded by Stanford students during the summer of 1965.
Research and teaching files, professional files and correspondence, audiovisual materials, professional papers, and materials documenting the Stanford Prison Experiment.
Subject Librarians
Head Librarian, Music Library, Head Librarian, Archive of Recorded Sound
(650) 725-1146 (650) 384-9817
Sound Archives Librarian
(650) 725-8862
