CDR 101 MARIA CALLAS AT JUILLIARD

In 1971 and 1972, Maria Callas conducted twenty-three master classes at Juilliard. They were recorded by the school, resulting in 46 hours of audio tape with inconsistent engineering but invaluable content. Subsequently, EMI issued selections from a few classes on three LP's - reissued on CD. John Ardoin, Callas' friend and later her biographer, attended some sessions and from the Juilliard tapes and his own experience wrote Callas at Juilliard: the Master Classes - first published by Knopf, now in a paperback edition from Amadeus Press. A few classes, recorded from the audience in poor sound, have found their way into private distibution, but the bulk of the material has been stored on analogue tape, decaying with time.