Audio collections include several LPs of Phillips Academy student rock and roll bands including the 8 ‘n 1s, Satans, Torques that were active during the late 1950s or early 1960s.
Below is a list of reel-to-reel tapes of performances, meetings and events at Phillips Academy, 1950s-1970s (3 boxes)
Thanks to Lincoln Herrington, class of 2016, and Alex Pareto, class of 2015, for their work on this list.
Box 1:
203-10 – WPAA
T- 142 “Mr. Roberts” Senior Class Play
[in plastic wrap] Convocation 1968, Abbot Academy (Donald Anderson Gordon?)
Prelude “Chorale in A Minor”
Anthem “O, Clap Your Hands” – Fidelio Society
Invocation
The Induction
The Acceptance
Greetings
Hymn “Hymn of Praise”
The Principal’s Address – Donald Gordon
A Blessing – Fidelio Society
Benediction
T-288, pt. 2 – Fidelio Society
Spring Concert – Abbot Fidelio Society
May 4, 1973
Pt II
T-264 Sizer Appointment
Hyde
Trustees’ decision to appoint Dr. Sizer 1972
T-41 Macbeth
Macbeth
Marlowe Society
T-195 Eugene Indjic: Concert 10/28/1966
Encore: Debussy – Fireworks; Chopin – Etude no. 23
Spring Concert May 26, 1976
PA Orchestra 4/73
T – 184 Sawyer Concert, 1966
Fine Arts and Jazz Quintets
38th Annual Sawyer Concert
Herb Pomeroy Jazz Quintet
T – 25
Priscilla Hallowell’s “Many Happy Returns” as performed by Phillips Academy faculty 11 Dec. 1954
Leonard Bernstein “Modern Music” (omnibus 1/12/1957)
T – 80 Lecture: Literature: Tudor Period
“Tudor Period in Literature” Basford
T – 66 Capra tape
T – 76 “Mr. President” FDR 1933 2/1/57
History of Music Part V: Early Romanticism
T – 75 Mr. Minard (Live Recording of Class Lecture) “17th C. Fr. Navy” 3/9/62
West Side Story
T – 46 “Othello” Dec. 1963
T – 37 “Julius Caesar”
T – 142 “Mr. Roberts” music
Senior Class Play, 1962
T – 181 “Antony & Cleopatra”
T – 49 “Taming of the Shrew”
T – 20 Agamemnon – Aeschylus
trans. by Louis MacNeice
BBC World Theatre – 80 min. – WGBH
9/19/54
T – 21 The Birds – Aristophanes
BBC Broadcast
Dudley Fitts Translation
T – 23 “Murder”/ “The Cathedral” (“Murder in the Cathedral”?)
PA Students/Symonds
11/22/58
T – 22 Chekov’s Ivanov (BBC) w/ John Gieldgud
T – 74 “I Can Hear It Now” 1933-45 History 4, 5/29/63
T – 73 “I Can Hear It Now” 1919 – 1932
Ode To Claude (1968, Peter Coraggio) / Piano Sonata No. 3 (1943, Ernst Krenek)
“For Mr. Hayes, Peter Coraggio”
T – 144 “Oklahoma” 5/5/62
T – 159 Menaechmi, Latin Play, November 1964
T – 224 Eddie Higgins and Jon Higgins Concert, 1/14/78
T – 143 “My Fair Lady” 5-16-64
T – 139 “Finlan’s Rainbow” 1960
T – 140 “Guys and Dolls,” 5/5/61
T – 297 Andover/Exeter Chorus Concert
Box 2:
T-232 Mr. Kemper, Oct. 13, 1971
June 28, 1973 – Abbot – PA Merger
T-255 P.A. 200
T-236 Sterns Lecture: Patrick Moynihan 1/26/73
T-226 “Some Common Problems of Democracies Ancient and Modern” Dr. Chase Nov. 10-70
Andover 50th Vol. I 36-37
Andover 50th Vol. II 37-38
Andover 50th Vol. III 38-39
Andover 50th Vol. IV 39-40
T-167 Alumni Weekend, June 12, 65, Chapel, Bishop Hobson
T-163 Latin Declamation May 5, 1965
T-5 Alumni Council, May 3/4, 1963
T-161 Dudley Fitts’ Lecture on T.S. Eliot, Jan, 1965
T-4 Arts and Communications, Discussion, May 21, 1960
T-3 Andover Program — National Meeting, Messrs. Hallowell, Sides, Benedict, Kemper, Blackmer, Hyde, Hammond (Bensley), 9-25/26-59
T-2 Andover Program, 6-Aug-59
T-250 1st Faculty Meeting, 77-78, 200th year
T-252 Constitution Day, Apr. 21, 1778
T-268 A.E. Stearns lecture, 1979
T284 Bartlett Hayes, 1974
The 1967 Fuess Award, Febr. 3 1967
Macomber (?)
T-1 Andover: “20 Years From Now” 4-19-61
Man and Society, 1974, English
T-283 Fuess Lecture: Herbert Scoville, Jr., Jan. 7-77
Faculty Meeting Sept. 15-77
T-298 Dr. Sizer, Sept. 1975
Hart Leault Lecture: “Stories About PA” 6/1/76
T-245 Dedication of Stuart Dorm 9/23/72, Dinner Speeches on Sizer, 9/25/72
T-259 The Installation of TR Sizer, Headmaster, Sept. 24-72
T-185 Latin Declamation, 1966
T-179 Dr. Spock Feb 2, 1966
T-101 “Good and Bad Poetry” D. Fitts, Adult Education
T-102: Dudley Fitts: Poetry of the Madrigal
T-92 Cum Laude Initation: Spkr. Cran Brinton (Prof. of History, Harvard)
Convocation 1968
T-279 B. Fuller, Lecture on Spaceship Earth
T-290 “Side-by-Side”
T-156 Dedication of Art
T-260 John Marks ’61, Kemper Lecture, 4/13/79
T-218 John M. Kemper Funeral Service, Dec. 7, 1971
Box 3
T- 79 Deuel Reading (1956) Latin-Buehner: 7/31/1958, Poetry-Owen: 8/16/1958
T-234 Dedication Tape WPAA (given to Archives 3/4/1996)
T-103 Fitts “Coasteland” : 10/24/1956, 10/30/195
T-6 Alumni Council: “After Andover, What?” (33/4”): 10/13/1961 [2 tapes]
T-7 Dedications: Stimson House (Morrison, McCloy): 2/25/1961
T-9 Parent’s Weekend “Some Case Histories”
T-11 Student Assembly: 4/18/1962
T-16 Latin Declamation: 4/26/1961
T-17 Latin Declamation: 1963
T-18 Latin Declamation
T-19 Debate: “Andover should expand enrollment to 1000”, Judges: James and Allis
T-15 Latin Declamation: 4/23/1959
T-14 Latin Declamation: 1958
T-13 Andover Exeter Debate: 3/1957
T-86 Math: Mr. Sides, Logic: Mr. Hammond: 7/8/1957, 7/30/1957
(BASF) Faculty Lecture Mr. Allis: 1957
(BASF) Land Claims to Ohio by Ken Krier
(BASF) Frederick History Lecutre – World War II Diplomacy: 5/8/1972
(BASF) Royce History Lecture: 5/22/1972
A74 Andover Evening Study, “All About Andover” , Mr. Allen and Mrs. Kellog: 10/24/1974 and 10/31/1974
AESP “All About Andover,” Erickson: 10/17/1974
AESP “All About Andover,” History Bart, Hayes, Natural History, Al Rotelle: 9/26/1974
Alumni Council: 10/16/1965
Alumni Forum: 6/7/1958
T-10 Parent’s Weekend “ Saturday Morning” – A Case Study: 5/14/1960
T-12 Alumni Weekend, Education Forum/TRS 1+2: 6/6/1959
T-77 Royce, Vietnam
T-57 “The Curculio” Student’s Latin Play: 11/17/1961
Dictation
Vision test I and II
French grammar (Holt, Rinehart and Winston)