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Beeferman, Gordon

Extent

2 websites in 2 archived website.

Scope and Contents

The website contains a biography of the artist, information about his compositions and projects, press relating to him and his works, a calendar of his events, and examples of his works in the form of embedded audio and video files. The compositions featured on the site highlight his work as a pianist and composer of opera, jazz, chamber, and orchestra music, making use of improvisation as well as scored pieces. Capture of the site began in February 2014. This description is based on the December 2017 capture of the site.

The Enchanted Organ is a burlesque opera written by Gordon Beeferman and Charlotte Jackson. It first premiered in 2012.

Accruals

New site crawls are accrued annually.

Appraisal

Robots.txt (a piece of code designed to limit crawler activity within a website) was ignored. Crawl was limited to domains and subdomains of http://www.gordonbeeferman.com/ and http://enchantedorgan.com/ in order to remain within the collection scope and data constraints.

Embedded Soundcloud audio files on the site were captured, but do not render in the archived copy. Future changes to the Wayback Machine may allow the files to be played.

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