Yes, you read it correctly. Members of our Board of Directors are about to give their first VRCS program, as a group, since March, 1976. While it may not be quite accurate to claim that veteran VRCS members have been clamoring for a repeat of that experience for the intervening thirty-two years and seven months, it is surely a good idea to get as many board members as possible together for a presentation on an occasional basis (like once out of every 391 programs), so that the rest of our group can put a face on the people who otherwise are content to shoulder the blame anonymously.

The idea is simple. If you were stranded on a desert island (or, given our board, in the Chateau d’If), and absent any possibility of sharing your sojourn there with Sophia Loren, Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman, Angelina Jolie or Scarlett Johansson (pick only one; don’t be greedy), what recordings would you, as a veteran collector of the most rarified tastes, choose to spend the rest of your life with? As an educated guess, we figure that our board members, present and emeritus, have about five hundred years of listening experience to guide them, so surely something great and wonderful should come out of this. If not, we can always schedule another such program at a similar interval. This would then take place in May, 2041, so be sure to buy a resuscitator and mark your calendars.

We are not yet certain how many board members will be available to take part in our October presentation, but right now Harold Bruder, Keith Kurtzer, Joe Pearce, Geoffrey Riggs and Seth Winner are definitely down to appear, and if that isn’t enough to make you clutch your heart and dial 911, we don’t know what is. Anyhow, it should be very interesting to see what they come up with, so do plan to be with us for this (almost certifiably) twice-in-a-lifetime experience.