Word: albums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of these medleys have become the best known numbers in the band's repertoire, further underscoring the musical emphasis. Band members have to compete for their positions and pride themselves on the difficult music they attempt. The wide sale of the ban's three records (ivy League Album, Up the Street, and Through the Square) attested to their success. In fact, a good deal of the organization's $15,000 yearly budget is obtained from the sale of these records...
...bales of drawings and photographs. But suddenly he realized that something was missing: sound. With that thought, Columbia Records Executive Vice President Lieberson launched into a year's research that took him through libraries and across old battle grounds. When he was through, Columbia had a fine new album, The Confederacy...
Adventurous Programming. The album's ten sections, arranged and conducted by Richard Bales, of the Washington, D.C. National Gallery Orchestra, underscores different facets of the war. First is General Lee's Grand March, a frothy two-step that might have come from Donizetti's Daughter of the Regiment. Next come wistful and militant soldiers' songs, e.g., Bonnie Blue Flag and Somebody's Darling. Others are drenched with sentiment; still others suggest the progressive bitterness of the occupation...
...farewell order to the Army of Northern Virginia (read by Lee's 77-year-old cousin once-removed, the Rev. Edmund Jennings Lee of Shepherdstown, W. Va.), and finally a rousing performance of Dixie that ends in a high-pitched, blood-chilling rebel yell. Bound into the album are 32 pages of pictures and texts by Civil War Experts Bruce Catton and Clifford Dowdey...
Lieberson's answer: new gimmicks, such as The Confederacy album. Among Lieberson's other off-beat projects: Edward R. Murrow's I Can Hear It Now album of historic speeches, the prestigious Literary Series, with such authors as Somerset Maugham and William Saroyan reading from their "own works, and album revivals of old musicals (the Pal Joey and Porgy and Bess albums have, in turn, sparked Broadway revivals...