Radio killed the video star
Talking heads Anthony Tommasini and our own little JJ discussed “Opera for the Masses” yesterday afternoon on WNYC’s “Soundcheck.” The station’s website has made available the show for listening or download. (Scroll down to “Opera lives on YouTube” for JJ’s portion of the program.)
Oh dear You tube has been decimated at least 50% of videos are gone, so sad that we had a great way of watching great old performances and now the corporates are stopping it.
Yep tragedy – what an awful situation for what gain? I can’t work out who benefits anything with them being withdrawn, but I can sure measure the loss. I searched in vain last night to find some familiar gems and was mortified to realise so many I was looking at a week ago have gone
Looked in UTube for some videos I found a while back, and the Nilsson archive seems fairly well intact–but a collection of Patrice Munsel videos seems to have disappeared. What are us relics from the 1950s going to do without some Pat ever so often. I should do some more browsing to see who else has been taken out.
These losses from youtube seem quite random, which I find confusing. One of my favourite recent videos, Eartha Kitt singing @i’m still here’ from when she was starring in Follies in London in the ’80′s suddenly disappeared. There is so much stuff on this site, which I hope doesn’t suddenly disappear, but trying to download so many videos is time consuming and futile. Yesterday, I was Caballe in the last act of Otello filmed on an amateur video. This sort of stuff will never be made available commercially.
JJ was great, La Cieca. You should be proud of him.
Tonight…Tonight…It all begins tonight…