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Bernstein: Fancy Free (Ballet Theatre Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein conducting, with Billie Holiday; Decca, 8 sides). The jaunty, jazzy ballet score with inappropriate lyrics sung-by blue-voiced Billie Holiday. Performance: fair...
Into a sparsely furnished room of Chicago's Palmer House filed apprehensive representatives from RCA Victor, Decca, Columbia and the other major record-makers. "Boys," greeted host Petrillo, "each year we just sign. This time we're going to negotiate...
...nightmares ranged from Nelson Eddy's bellowing like a whale to Jose Ferrer's reading of Mozart and Schubert biographies with symphonic accompaniment. Best of the lot: a straightforward dramatization of Oscar Wilde's poignant fairy tale, The Happy Prince, starring Bing Crosby and Orson Welles (Decca, 4 sides) and Balladeer Woody Guthrie's original harum-scarum Songs to Grow On-Nursery Days (Disc, 6 sides...
...Copyright, 1939, Decca Records...
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor (Eugene List, pianist, with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Los Angeles, Alfred Wallenstein conducting; Decca, 10 sides). The concerto which is rapidly replacing Tchaikovsky's as the most heard and most abused, played by President Truman's favorite pianist (TIME, April 22). The late composer's own recording for Victor (1929) remains the definitive one. Performance: good...