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...Signal Corps discovery: the adoption of 33⅓ r.p.m. as a standard speed for records would have been less practical had not tape-splicing techniques done away with the necessity of a perfect studio performance. Tape also made possible such stunts as Jascha Heifetz' singlehanded recording of the Bach D Minor Concerto for Two Violins and the famed recording of Patti Page singing the Tennessee Waltz over her own voice. But music lovers did not at first welcome prerecorded tape with open ears, despite its admitted advantages (virtually no surface noise or deterioration, plus fewer interruptions). It cost more...
Those ideas, he explained wryly, are often in the mind of the listener, rather than in the music of the composer. Take the religious music of Bach, Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky, which is often played in Russia. "To me, they are wonderful creations, though they do not evoke religious feeling. Religious music contains great compositions, such as the requiems of Mozart and Verdi, but I do not take it as religious music-I take it as secular music." Asked how he now feels about his opera, A Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, which was denounced by Pravda in 1936 (reportedly because Stalin...
...trumpeting like a herd of elephants, and even producing echoing sounds of haunting beauty. Baschet dubbed his inventions Structures sonores and organized a small orchestra: his brother Bernard, Modernist Composer Jacques Lasry and several associates. The group is known in France as Structures Sonores Lasry-Baschet. It plays some Bach and some Vivaldi−but Baschet's devices are more adaptable to the works of Composer Lasry, which struggle with such titles as Coil Spring Dance and Duet for Crystals...
...phenomenal 1,700,000 disks. It has been recorded in Flemish, Spanish, German and Italian, and in 42 different versions. It has been done à la New Orleans, in cha cha cha rhythm and as a twist, as a military march and in a stately imitation of Johann Sebastian Bach. Frank Sinatra sang it in French at a Cap-Martin nightclub, and an English songwriter is at work on English lyrics. In all styles, and in any language, Moonlight at Maubeuge...
...Bach specified no medium for the work, and I shall not go into the question of whether it ought to be played on the organ. Miss Boron had obviously practiced hard for many months on her own edition for organ; but in the end it was clear that the work was far beyond her technique, and should not have been attempted in public...