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...collaboration of the Poetry Room, the Harvard Film Service, the English Department and Packard, the Harvard Vocarium record label was motivated by the desire to “bring to life the voice of the poet,” according to Donald S. Share, the Woodberry’s curator...
From 1931 until its demise in the early 1950s, the Harvard Vocarium produced roughly 110 records, issued catalogs of its available recordings and had fairly successful sales...
...list of literary luminaries the Vocarium attracted for recordings—including T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Tennessee Williams, Robinson Jeffers, Marianne Moore, Robert Lowel, Archibald MacLeish and Theodore Roethke—gained widespread attention...
Although the Harvard Vocarium did not outlast its creator’s retirement, Share says that Packard’s “pioneering vision”—using novel technology to enjoy and study literature as a “living voice”—set a bold example for the possibilities of combining technology with an art form...
This year, the Harvard Vocarium record label was honored by being selected one of only fifty inductees to the inaugural National Recording Registry...