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...Nonsense. Now MCA is planning to move into moviemaking as a major producer. Key to its new role is a planned merger with Decca Records (which controls Universal Pictures). In the new combination, MCA will be the senior partner, thus making it overnight into a major Hollywood studio. At the same time, partly as a result of prodding by the Justice Department, MCA will probably divest itself of its talent-agency business, which last year amounted to only $8,400,000, v. $72.6 million from television films and studio rentals...
...uneasily known in the film capital as "The Octopus." Though MCA's elusive President Lew Wasserman, 49, has refused to admit it, show-biz savants have long suspected that the octopus would like to stretch its tentacles into movie production. Last week directors of New York's Decca Records, Inc. approved Wasserman's offer of MCA stock worth an estimated $50 for every share of Decca stock. The proposed merger, which has yet to be passed on by stockholders-or the Justice Department-seemed to confirm Hollywood's suspicions. Besides making phonograph records, Decca owns...
BRAZEN BRASS ZINGS THE STRINGS (Henry Jerome and His Orchestra; Decca). Mood music played by an orchestra so artfully fragmented in the studio and reassembled that a listener with a mind to can believe he is sitting among the first violins. Mostly for audio addicts...
...harmonies without disturbing the harmonies of Bach." He rounded up a bass fiddle and some drums, and started noodling his way through the Bach fugues and preludes, "looking for passages that could be swung." He found them-or made them-and the result was an album titled Play Bach (Decca Disques). It sold briskly. Encouraged, Loussier recorded Play Bach, No. 2 and most recently turned to the Italian Concerto, Chromatic Fantasy and Two-Part Inventions as the inspiration for Play Bach...
Finally, there's the Play of Daniel, the twelfth-century, semi-secular, demi-liturgical Christmas drama from Beauvais. Noah Greenberg has recorded his recent and acclaimed performance at the Cloisters. Russell Oberlin is a soloist (Decca...