I fear that our society is becoming less and less interested in long-term preservation of historical material. As long as I can enjoy it today, I don't care whether I (or anyone else) will be able to play it in 20 years' time. Vinyl (as long as it was never played!) was more stable than CD, CD than CD-R, and so on.
The publishing house Eisenbrauns once posted a superb April Fools' Day piece demonstrating that the ideal medium for long-term data storage was ancient Mesopotamian baked clay tablets. Durability 4000+ years, far exceeding paper, let alone computer files and other current media; preservation unimpaired by flood, and actually improved by fire; etc., etc. It added up to a remarkably strong case! Not, unfortunately, a medium that would be much help in the long-range preservation of Koussevitzky.
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