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There's Music in You (Bing Crosby; Decca). A new Rodgers & Hammerstein tune from the upcoming movie, Main Street to Broadway. Typically first-rate R & H, and better-than-average Crosby...
Moonlight Playing Time (Frankie Froba; Decca LP). Oldtime Jazz Pianist Froba has an easygoing keyboard approach. His selections-Moonglow, How High the Moon, Stardust on the Moon, Moonlight on the Ganges, Moonlight Saving Time, It's Only a Paper Moon, Moon Over Miami and Blue Moon-should just about exhaust the subject...
Other noteworthy new records: four of Handel's works for Ancient Instruments and Soprano, with Valarie Lamoree and the Pro Musica Antiqua of New York (Esoteric); Haydn's Seasons, with the RIAS Symphony, choirs and soloists conducted by Ferenc Fricsay (Decca. 3 LPs); seven evocations Of Gods and Demons, sung by Bass-Baritone George London (Columbia); Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy, played by the Paris Philharmonic Orchestra under Manuel Rosenthal (Capitol); Howard Swanson's Short Symphony, Franz Litschauer conducting the Vienna State Opera Orchestra (Vanguard); music by Rossini, Cambini and Bonporti, played by the Virtuosi...
...Western Europe, the Decca Navigator seems likely to become standard equipment. A set of stations in Britain has been operating successfully for five years, although until recently pilots had to figure out their positions without the aid of the pointer and moving chart. France will have its Decca stations in a month, and both Italy and Spain are dickering for their own installations...
...subsidiary of Decca Records...