{{Short description|American record label}} {{Infobox record label | name = 1750 Arch Records | image = 1750_Arch_Records.jpg | founded = {{start date|1974}} | defunct = {{end date|1984}} | founder = Thomas Buckner | genre = experimental, avant garde, jazz, classical music. | country = United States | location = Berkeley, California }} '''1750 Arch Records''' was an independent record label that focused on experimental and avant garde music, jazz, and classical music.
==History== The label, named after the company's address in Berkeley, California, was founded in 1974 by vocalist Thomas Buckner, who was also responsible for starting 1750 Arch Concerts, which presented over a hundred concerts a year for eight years, and the Arch Ensemble, which performed and recorded music by 20th century composers.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.otherminds.org/other-minds-festival-1 |title=Other Minds Festival 1 |website=OtherMinds.org |access-date=August 6, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |date=Winter 2016 |title=Alumni News |magazine=Harvey Magazine |pages=42 |url=https://issuu.com/harveyschool/docs/harveymagwinter2016/44}}</ref><ref name="jl">{{cite web |url=http://www.jazzlists.com/SJ_Label_1750Arch.htm |title=1750 Arch Records |website=JazzLists |access-date=August 6, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |first=W.L. |last=Taitte |date=March 1976 |title=Beyond the Fringe |magazine=Texas Monthly |pages=45 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HywEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%221750+arch+records%22&pg=PA45}}</ref> Over the course of roughly ten years, it released over fifty albums in a wide range of styles, including the complete player piano music of Conlon Nancarrow.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Penchansky |first=Alan |date=April 14, 1979 |title=Indie Labels Project 'Firsts' |magazine=Billboard |pages=36 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TiQEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%221750+arch+records%22&pg=PT35}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1984/01/22/conlon-nancarrow-piano-beyond-human-limits/1ebfe26c-8d89-4390-b177-8f4d0ebc960b |title=Conlon Nancarrow: Piano Beyond Human Limits |first=Joseph |last=McLellan |date=January 22, 1984 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=August 6, 2023}}</ref> In the early 1980s, 1750 Arch began to wind down its operations, closing in 1984, at which time the master recordings were returned to the composers and musicians.<ref name="jl" /><ref name="nmu">{{cite web |url=https://newmusicusa.org/nmbx/thomas-buckner-reenters-the-record-business |title=Thomas Buckner Re-Enters the Record Business |date=April 1, 2001 |website=NewMusic USA |access-date=August 6, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://precambrianmusic.com/arch1.htm |title=Arch Records |first=Phil |last=Sawyer |website=PreCambrian Music |access-date=August 6, 2023}}</ref> A number of albums were reissued on other labels, including Buckner's Mutable Music.<ref name="jl" /><ref name="nmu" />
==Releases== ;Contemporary music * S-1752 Various Artists: ''10+2: 12 American Text Sound Pieces'' * S-1760 Janet Millard: ''20th Century Flute'' * S-1765 Various Artists: ''New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media'' * S-1768 Conlon Nancarrow: ''Complete Studies for Player Piano, Vol. #1'' * S-1771 Joseph Bacon: ''Guitar Music of Villa-Lobos'' * S-1772 Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra: ''Lou Harrison: Elegiac Symphony; Robert Hughes: Cadences'' * S-1774 David Rosenboom and Don Buchla: ''Collaboration in Performance'' * S-1775 Stuart Dempster: ''In the Great Abbey of Clement VI'' * S-1777 Conlon Nancarrow: ''Complete Studies for Player Piano, Vol. #2'' * S-1779 Charles Amirkhanian: ''Lexical Music'' * S-1780 Mel Graves: ''Three Worlds'' * S-1781 Gardner Jencks: ''Selected Works for Piano, 1942-1980'' * S-1782 Various Artists: ''The Music of Luigi Dallapiccola'' * S-1784 John Adams: ''Shaker Loops''; ''Phrygian Gates'' * S-1785 Thomas Buckner, Gerald Oshita, Roscoe Mitchell: ''New Music for Woodwinds and Voice'' * S-1786 Conlon Nancarrow: ''Complete Studies for Player Piano, Vol. #3'' * S-1787 Susan Allen: ''New Music for Harp'' * S-1789 Katrina Krimsky: ''Villa-Lobos: The Baby's Family'' * S-1792 Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra: ''Daniel Kobialka: Echoes of Secret Silence; Charles Shere: Nightmusic'' * S-1793 Neil B. Rolnick: ''Solos'' * S-1794 Peter Dickson Lopez: ''The Ship of Death'' * S-1795 Henry Brant: ''Solar Moth''; Daniel Kobialka: ''Autumn Beyond'' * S-1797 Jon English, Candace Natvig: ''Triptych'' * S-1798 Conlon Nancarrow: ''Complete Studies for Player Piano, Vol. #4'' * S-1800 Michael McNabb: ''Computer Music'' * S-1801 Anna Carol Dudley, Ronald Erickson, Earle Shenk: ''The Music of Charles Seeger (1886-1979)'' * S-1806 Roscoe Mitchell, Gerald Oshita, Tom Buckner: ''Space: An Interesting Breakfast Conversation''
;Classical music * S-1754 Martial Singher: ''Opus 70'' * S-1761 Renee Grant-Williams, Dorothy Barnhouse, Alden Gilchrist: ''Brahms Duets'' * S-1762 Jeanne Stark: ''Claude Debussy: Preludes, Book I'' * S-1763 Jeanne Stark: ''Claude Debussy: Preludes, Book II'' * S-1766 Martial Singher, Dorothy Angwin: ''An Album of French Songs'' * S-1767 Bernhard Abramowitsch: ''Schubert: Sonata in B Flat Major; Klaviersuck II'' * S-1783 San Francisco String Quartet: ''A Night in the Garden Court'' * S-1796 Dennis Russell Davies, Charles Holland: ''My Lord What a Mornin'''
;Early music * S-1751 Musica Mundana: ''Dufay: Fifteen Songs'' * S-1753 Music for a While: ''Transformations: Dufay and His Contemporaries'' * S-1756 Paul Hersh, Laurette Goldberg: ''J.S. Bach: The Leipzig Sonatas'' * S-1757 Tom Buckner, Joseph Bacon: ''Wandering in This Place: Elizabethan Lute Songs'' * S-1764 Joseph Bacon: ''Dowland: Fantasies and Dances for the Lute'' * S-1773 Music for a While: ''La Fontaine Amoureuse: Poetry and Music of Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377)'' * S-1776 Anna Carol Dudley: ''Henry Purcell: Songs and Grounds''
;Jazz * S-1755 Infinite Sound: ''Contemporary African-American Music'' * S-1758 Denny Zeitlin with George Marsh and Mel Graves: ''Expansion'' * S-1759 Denny Zeitlin, Ratzo B. Harris, George Marsh: ''Syzygy'' * S-1769 Art Lande: ''The Eccentricities of Earl Dant'' * S-1770 Denny Zeitlin: ''Soundings'' * S-1778 Art Lande: ''The Story of Ba-Ku'' * S-1790 Big Black (Danny Rey): ''Ethnic Fusion'' * S-1791 George Marsh: ''Marshland'' * S-1802 Randy Weston: ''Blue'' * S-1804 George Marsh, John Abercrombie: ''Drum Strum''
Sources:<ref name="jl" /><ref name="mutable">{{cite web |url=https://mutablemusic.com/mm/about |title=Mutable Music: About |website=Mutable Music |access-date=August 6, 2023}}</ref>
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