Word: disc
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...bond among listeners of all classes--the spreading of the ideas was more important than the actual listening. Pop classical might not convey composers' ideas in the most traditional form, but it does the job nonetheless. If someone enjoys a movement of a Vivaldi concerto on a pop classical disc, perhaps they'll want to buy a complete or "better" recording, and then perhaps they'll listen to Vivaldi's contemporaries, and perhaps later his successors. This process contributes to classical music's continuing existence; the growth of its audience, no matter how humble the beginnings, is its lifeblood...
DIED. ALISON STEELE, 58, disc jockey; of cancer; in New York City. "Come fly with me" was Steele's classic invitation, first sighed in the '60s in a voice marinated in smoke and sophistication--a suggestion so appealing to New York insomniacs that the "Nightbird" became one of the first women in the country to work as a rock 'n' roll deejay. She was also the first female recipient of Billboard's "FM Personality of the Year" and an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...
From now on, students won't need to lug heavy books from Lamont Library to the Quad--they can take the information home on a five-inch, iridescent disc...
...modern recording era has spawned a curious new breed of conductor who feels compelled to commit anything and everything to disc, even if he has little to say. A highly unscientific survey of the current Schwann catalog highlights Herbert von Karajan, Neeme Jarvi, and Sir Neville Marriner as some of the more egregious offenders...
...reports that Kleiber was tapped by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra after von Karajan's passing, but refused. Of all the major classical labels, only Deutsche Grammophon proved to have enough stomach and patience to deal with him more than once, and they have finally coupled two formerly premium-priced discs to produce what is arguably the best single disc of Beethoven symphonies on the market...