Word: albums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the past two weeks, Previn was planning two new jazz albums and an album of chamber music; he was also rehearsing Rachmaninoff's Paganini Variations for a concert with the Los Angeles Symphony, discussing the scores for three new pictures, writing an arrangement for Ella Fitzgerald of a song he has written (called Yes), and rehearsing (in New York City) for an appearance with Benny Goodman on TV's Swing into Spring. In Hollywood he barely had time to drop in at the Pantages Theater on his thirtieth birthday to collect a glittering memento of his most...
...collecting folk music. To render his songs fit for the igth century drawing room, Thomson hired the best poets and composers of the day-Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Haydn, Beethoven. Between 1806 and 1818 Beethoven set more than 100 songs for Thomson for an estimated ?550. In this album the towering German genius is improbably linked to such folksy titles as Faithful Johnie and The Lovely Lass of Inverness. All the tunes have a willowy charm, and occasional instrumental passages sound unmistakably vigorous echoes of Beethoven's more familiarly muscular style...
...Lieberson pushed Columbia's lead in LP recordings, put out the recording of South Pacific that was a milestone in the popularity of recorded musicals. He expanded the recording frontier to include such non-musical offerings as the I Can Hear It Now series (more than 500,000 albums sold), founded the Columbia LP Record Club, the nation's first and now its biggest (more than 1,000,000 members) record club. When the stage production of My Fair Lady was searching for a backer, Lieberson persuaded Columbia Broadcasting System, owner of Columbia Records...
...Women are natural mothers," she answered. "I believe any woman can have children." She brought out a memory album showing tender moments of the baby's first hour at home. "I wrote the words myself," she told me, and read: "This is your world, Garnette darling, fear not, there are gentle hands and watchful eyes and smiles--The world is love...
...playing fumble-thumbed jazz on a piano backed up by a Vichy French clarinetist, an English bass man, and a West African drummer. He caught on with the Chronicle in 1950, now lives with his wife and three children in a red-shingled house beset by his 3,000-album record collection, which grows and coils from room to room. As he listens and listens, he hammers out the beat on a pad with drumsticks. Gleason insists that the jazz town of San Francisco is a better listening post than New York: "Here you can relax and listen...