Source
0001955: June Winberg’s Reel-to-Reel Tape Collection
June
Winberg used a reel-to-reel tape recorder to record four tapes of various material,
as summarized below. When she died, these tapes passed into possession of her
daughter Mary. Mary’s son Bob had the tapes digitized by a media firm around
2005. Bob prepared the index below and posted the files in January 2023.
Reel
1: June
Winberg's Reel 1 (labeled “No. III” on box)
Notes
on back of box for Reel 1:
“Stereo”
Left
column
“1. Ruth & Cleo Rosary at Ruth’s
2. [ditto marks]
Ave Maria at Ruths House
Esther
Glory Halellujia
How Great Thou Art
You Tell me your dreams
Rosary
Ave Maria
Esther and Ruth Kentucky Babe
Wispering Hope Esther & Ruth
Bob came home from Rays – Tooke(?)
from Sony – recorded
it.
had
Ruth singing 804
cold
How great thou Art
Sudent(?) Aite(?)
Great judgement
Right
Column
886
Golden Gate
895
empty”
June's
sister Ruth Miller and others singing – includes:
00:00 –
05:46: Unidentified
05:47 –
07:52: Franz Schubert, Ave Maria
07:53 –
09:19: Unidentified
09:20 – 11:06: Julia Ward Howe, Battle Hymn
of the Republic (Glory, Glory, Hallelujah)
11:07 – 12:24: Carl Boberg, How Great Thou
Art
12:25 – 13:20: Charles Daniels, You Tell me
your Dreams, I’ll Tell you Mine (chorus only)
13:21 – 15:25: Rosary [based on box notes
above]
15:26 – 17:35: Franz Schubert, Ave Maria
17:40 – 20:06: Adam Geibel, Kentucky Babe
20:07 – 22:00: Septimus Winner, Whispering
Hope
22:07 -
23:30: June Winberg playing Schubert, Ave Maria on the organ
23:36-54:10: Conversation between Bob Winberg and June
Winberg, including interesting exchange about lobsters
54:10-1:03:26: Ruth Miller singing: Unidentified
1:03:27-end:
Jumble of conversation, Bob Winberg, also Joan Winberg(?) mentioning
something sitting on top of the radio
Reel
2: June
Winberg's Reel 2 (labeled “No. I” on box)
Notes
on back of box for Reel 2:
Left
column:
“got new shorts 1972
Jacket $85.75
new pants
me playing piano on R side
cou dear conversation also”
Right
column:
“slow 7 ½ L side
Bob Flo & I drinking
Bob came
Drinking – Flo
Came after Bingo
Asked about
Mocasins gave
Me to get some
New
ones
slow 1st one got”
NOTE: This entire reel has conversation in
the background
00:00 - 00:42 Conversation between Bob Winberg and
Florence Stuhr(?)
00:42 - 04:10 June Winberg playing the piano: Christian
Sinding, Rustle of Spring, Op. 32, No. 3
04:10 - 04:28 Conversation between Bob Winberg and
Florence Stuhr(?)
04:28 - 05:36 June Winberg playing the piano: Piece #1
(Gershwin?)
05:36 - 05:50 Bob Winberg talking about Jack with
Florence Stuhr(?)
05:47 - 06:53 June Winberg playing the piano: John
Schonberger, Whispering
07:05 - 09:26 June Winberg playing Lara's Theme from Dr.
Zhivago (arrangement unidentified)
09:26 - 09:31 Bob Winberg speaking with Florence
Stuhr(?)
09:31 – 12:51 June Winberg playing the piano: W.C.
Handy, St. Louis Blues
12:53 - 13:46 June Winberg playing the piano: Piece #3
(Descending passage from the high registers, harmonically sounds like Chopin))
13:45 - 13:49 June Winberg playing fragment of Piece #11
(played fully in later reels)
14:12 - 16:11 June Winberg playing the piano: Piece #4
(Impressionism/Jazz, Debussy? Gershwin?)
16:11 - 18:18 June Winberg playing the piano: Piece #4 continued
(Stop/Record)
18:13 - 19:50 June Winberg playing the piano: Piece #5
(Hymn)
(Stop/Record)
19:50 - 20:14 June Winberg playing the piano: Piece #6
fragment (Jazz, chromatic harmonies - Gershwin?)
20:15 - 20:34 Bob Winberg asks someone (Florence Stuhr?)
if he was 25 years younger, and she was 20 years younger, would she go out on a
date with him? She points out that they were both married 25 years ago, which
dates this tape to after 1964 (NOTE: Florence and Pete were married in 1934,
Bob and June in 1939)
20:34 - 22:04 June Winberg playing the piano: Piece #7
(Slow Jazz). Florence Stuhr(?) talking about Bob Winberg going back to his old
hair style.
22:04 - 22:14 Florence Stuhr(?) talking about Bob
Winberg telling her to go get a new outfit
22:14 - 23:56 June Winberg playing the piano: Piece #8
(Slow Jazz, rising chromatic passage, sounds improvisational - Gershwin?)
(Stop/Record)
23:57 - 24:05 Bob Winberg talking about getting his
driver's license
24:05 - 30:35 June Winberg playing the piano: Piece #9
(Impressionism/Jazz: Debussy? Gershwin?)
30:35 - 32:13 June Winberg playing the organ: Piece #10
(Fast, like a carnival ride, flawed recording)
(Stop/Record)
32:13 - 32:24 June Winberg playing organ: Piece #10
continued
32:24 – end June Winberg playing the organ set to
harpsichord, Ethelbert Nevin: Water Scenes Op. 13 No. 4 – Narcissus (played 3
times on piano on the next reel)
00:18 - 03:19 June Winberg playing the piano: Ethelbert
Nevin: Water Scenes Op. 13 No. 4 – Narcissus
03:20 - 05:31 June Winberg playing the piano: Piece #12
(Jazz, Gershwin?)
05:31 - 06:23 [blank]
06:23 - 18:26 June Winberg playing the organ: poor
recording quality
18:45 - 22:06 June Winberg playing the piano: starting
in the middle of Christian Sinding, "Rustle of Spring", Op. 32 No. 3
22:34 - 31:45 June Winberg playing the piano: Piece #13
(low register, slow stepping chords - Chopin? Rachmaninoff?, Debussy?)
(Stop/Record)
31:45 - 32:41 Conversation, recording flawed -- machine
is recording too slow
32:41 - 34:00 Conversation continues with machine fixed
and now recording at correct speed - Females - June Winberg and Florence Stuhr?
34:00 - 36:39 June Winberg organ, Piece #14 (two females
singing - Ruth Miller and unidentified, perhaps June singing along while she
accompanied?
36:39 - 37:00 Dialogue between singers about entrance
points
37:14 - 40:00 June Winberg playing the organ: Piece #14
(continued)
40:36 - 45:29 June Winberg playing the piano: Ethelbert
Nevin: Water Scenes Op. 13 No. 4 – Narcissus
45:30 - 53:20 June Winberg playing the piano: Piece #13
53:50 - 1:01:31 June Winberg playing the piano: Christian
Sinding, "Rustle of Spring", Op. 32 No. 3 - some performance, lots of
practice
1:01:38 - end June Winberg playing the piano: Ethelbert
Nevin: Water Scenes Op. 13 No. 4 – Narcissus
Reel
4, Side 1:
June
Winberg's Reel 4, Side 1
00:00 - 00:54 Ruth Miller singing: Piece #15 (with organ
accompaniment); two people talking about shutting off the machine
01:35 - 01:43 Ruth Miller singing: fragment of Piece #16
01:59 – 04:24 Ruth Miller singing: Piece #16 (with organ
accompaniment)
04:24 Abrupt change in recording quality
04:24 - 07:22 Ruth Miller singing: Piece #16 continued
("thy will be done, thy kingdom come . . . .")
07:40 - 10:30 Ruth Miller singing: Piece #17 (with organ
accompaniment)
10:40 - 14:56 Ruth Miller singing: Piece #18 (with organ
accompaniment)
15:03 - 17:18 Ruth Miller singing: Piece #19 (with
choral accompaniment)
17:27 - 21:30 Ruth Miller singing: Piece #20 (with
choral accompaniment, then part of a chorus with organ accompaniment)
22:22 - 26:13 Ruth Miller singing: Piece #21 (with piano
accompaniment)
26:28 - 32:15 Ruth Miller singing: Piece #22 (with
orchestral and choral accompaniment)
32:41 - 38:54 Ruth Miller singing: Piece #23 (with
orchestral and organ accompaniment)
38:55 - end Ruth Miller singing: Piece #24 (with
organ accompaniment)
Reel
4, Side 2:
June
Winberg's Reel 4, Side 2
Notes
on back of box for Reel 4:
00:30 - 05:04 Ruth Miller singing: Piece #25 (with organ
accompaniment)
05:45 - 08:25 Ruth Miller singing: Piece #26 (with piano
accompaniment)
08:26 - 14:37 Ruth Miller singing: "O Holy
Night" (with orchestral accompaniment)
14:45 - 17:27 Ruth Miller singing: Piece #27 (with organ
accompaniment)
17:49 - 21:49 Ruth Miller singing: Piece #28 (with organ
accompaniment)
21:52 - 24:43 Ruth Miller singing: Piece #29 (with organ
and choral accompaniment)
21:50 - 30:00 Ruth Miller singing: Piece #30 (with organ
accompaniment, and then a choral piece)
30:30 - 35:26 Ruth Miller singing: Piece #31 (with organ
accompaniment)
35:37 - 36:54 Piece #32 (piano). From the sound of a
scratchy record, this seems to be a recording of a record made to the tape via
microphone.
36:55 - 38:30 Ethelbert Nevin: Water Scenes Op. 13 No. 4
– Narcissus. From the sound of a scratchy record, this seems to be a recording
of a record made to the tape via microphone.
38:32 - 42:00 Piece #33 (piano). From the sound of a
scratchy record, this seems to be a recording of a record made to the tape via
microphone.
42:00 - 42:24 Piece #34 (singing group with piano
accompaniment). From the sound of a scratchy record, this seems to be a
recording of a record made to the tape via microphone.
42:24 - end Piece #35 (singing group with piano
accompaniment). From the sound of a scratchy record, this seems to be a
recording of a record made to the tape via microphone.