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...Eliot: The Cocktail Party (original Broadway cast: Alec Guinness, Cathleen Nesbitt, Robert Flemyng, Eileen Peel, Irene Worth, Ernest Clark, Grey Blake; Decca, 4 sides LP). Listening to this recording is an experience in the music of the English language, as well as a plunge into the drawing-room metaphysics of Poet Eliot's hit play (TIME, Jan. 30). Recording: excellent...
...also won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for the year's best "musical" (opera was still considered too strong a word for Broadway; The Consul was billed as a "musical drama"). Decca Records was recording it with the original cast, and Hollywood was shouting offers, none of which seemed to be of much interest to 38-year-old Composer Menotti. What pleased him considerably more was that Milan's La Scala, which snooted his first five operas, had asked permission to produce The Consul in Italian late this year. Menotti felt hopeful that his acceptance...
...first season at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel; last week, when they began their 20th straight season at the Roosevelt, eight of the original nine members of the Royal Canadians were still there. And finally it was just 15 years since Guy had started making a fortune for Decca and himself by selling close to 50 million copies (Guy's estimate) of some 800 sides...
...record war between RCA Victor and Columbia Records, Inc., both sides have hotly wooed Decca Records, Inc. as a prospective ally. But Decca, third largest U.S. recordmaker, has played hard to get, shrewdly watching & waiting to see whether RCA's 45 r.p.m. or Columbia's 33⅓ r.p.m. long-playing record would win the battle on retail counters. Last week, convinced that it was getting in on "the biggest possible market," Decca lined up with Columbia. With 15 smaller recorders already making 33⅓ r.p.m. LP records, Decca's decision meant that Columbia had just about...
Brahms: Concerto in D (Ossy Renardy, violin, with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Charles Münch conducting; London FFRR-full frequency recording range-formerly the "English Decca" label, 10 sides). Young U.S. Violinist Renardy starts out with thrilling intensity of tone but never seems able to relax, even with the backing of this fine orchestra. Recording: excellent...