Clippings and Clips

News Clippings I've Scanned

• All Frets:
  article published in Fretted Instrument Guild of America
  July-August 1986 publication
• 95-year-old musician brings cheer to hospitals:
  article published May 23, 1994 in The Intelligencer / The Record

Lara's Theme

I found dozens of web pages referring to Ed, most of which included only the one-sentence blurb that appears in the Wikipedia article about Lara's Theme:

• Lara's Theme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lara%27s_theme
  "Although never credited, Edgar Stanistreet, a street musician [!] of Philadelphia, claimed that he was asked to play the song over the phone to an MGM executive, and was later taken into the studio to record."

Other Articles Available Online

• Two photos of Ed from 1938 (scroll down about one-third of the page)
  http://uv201.com/Photo%20Pages/audio_shop.htm
  "These two pictures may have been taken at a trade show, as they appear to be a demonstration of the advantages of electronic amplification for the stringed instrument player. The same amplifier and speakers as are seen in the views of the shop are here, and the musician can be seen pointing to an Amperite model KTH instrument pickup in the second photo. The two speaker cabinets could be latched together face-to-face for protection and convenience in transit. The instrument is a lovely and very desirable Gibson mandolin. The musician is Edgar Stanistreet, who played violin with the Philadelphia Symphony. A cropped version of the picture below appeared in the November, 1938 issue of Radio Today magazine." See
  http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Radio-Today/30s/Radio-Today-1938-11.pdf (page 46)
• A Spirited Musician Brings More Than Just Tunes
  articles.philly.com/1991-04-03/news/25780487_1_philadelphia-orchestra-longevity-spirit
  "Sixty-odd years ago, when Edgar Stanistreet worked as a nightclub musician in Europe, he designated himself the guardian of his boozing associates' woodwinds and strings...."
  by Becky Batcha, Daily News Staff Writer
  Posted: April 03, 1991
• Star-News, May 24, 1994 has a photo but no article:
  http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nq4sAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DhUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4496%2C3090359
  The caption reads: "Comforting music. Ed Stanistreet, plays his mandolin for a baby recently in the neonatal intensive care unit at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. Mr. Stanistreet, who spent most of his life touring the world as a professional violinst, has used his musical talent on various instruments to bring joy to patients for more than 30 years."
  An article about Ed appears with a poorer copy of the same photo in the
  Observer-Reporter, May 23, 1994
  http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2519&dat=19940523&id=g6ldAAAAIBAJ&sjid=X10NAAAAIBAJ&pg=2358,4036402

Print Media

Here's a magazine I plan to track down:

• Alibris: New Age Contact Volume 7 (Jan. 1974): Sound and Music
  www.alibris.com/search/books/invid/10231983865
  "Vintage New Age quarterly. Contents: The Divine Instrument The Voice by Saraswati O'Neill; String Bridge by Allaudin Mathieu; Music of the Planes; Comments on Music by Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan; Mantra by Swami Jyotir Mayananda; The House of Tansen by Murshid Samuel L. Lewis; Kirtan by Wahid Miller; Comet Kahoutek;
  Tuning In: An Interview with Edgar Stanistreet;
  Cosmic Music by Rev. Helane Baldwin. Illustrated."

Video Clip

Here's a video clip I would love to track down. I'm going to need it if I ever produce a documentary about Ed.

• Concert Violinist Entertains Hospitalized Children
  NBC News, May 10, 1976
  NBC Universal Archives
  http://www.nbcuniversalarchives.com/nbcuni/clip/5112785158_s01.do
  Edgar Stanistreet aged 77 and a former violinist with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra has been entertaining critically ill children at St. Christopher's Hospital every Thursday morning for the past twelve years. Mr. Staninstreet plays children's songs on a mandolin and sings to children both in-groups and individually.
  CS - Mr. Stanistreet enters the hospital where he plays, sings, and entertains children in a group. He then goes into several rooms, where he plays individually for some of the children.
  OUTS - Mr. Stanistreet is shown playing the mandolin and singing for the children, and leading them in sing-along. Mr. Stainstreet then tells Jack O'Rourke of NBC News about his background. He learned to play the mandolin at eight years old working odd jobs to pay for lessons. At sixteen he joined an Italian folk group and went to Europe with them. He took violin lessons in Paris and played for children in a Viennese hospital. Shortly after returning to America he was hired by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, then conducted by Leopold Stokowski.
  Clip Name: 5112785158_s01
  Media ID: 0603407
  Ardome ID: 1100100610117432922
  CARTRIDGE: 008 PAGE: 0572
  Film: 16mm, color, rev. with mag stripe
  Footage: 550 ft: CS - 50 ft & mix, effx, narr trk; OUTS - 500 ft