Word: discs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Undergraduate technicians are improving reception in Straus and Matthews Halls, where it has been weak in the part. Other steps in the station's expansion include the purchase of a $400 tape recorder and the setting up of a new studio to be used by disc jockeys. The recorder will be used for covering speeches, forums, musical events, and on-the-spot news, as soon as an amplier can be built...
...suggested a recording with Janssen conducting the Columbia Symphony. A little research revealed that half of the paraphrases had already been orchestrated, under the title Tati-Tati, by a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov's, Nicolai Tcherepnine. Columbia put Tcherepnine's version on one side of an LP disc, Janssen's on the other...
...scenes. As an aging slave of the Romans, Barabbas meets a Christian whose piety nearly converts him-but when threatened with death by the Romans he backs out. No, he says, he has no god. It is true that he has inscribed the name "Christos Jesus" on his slave disc, but that is only "because I want to believe," not because he really does...
Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Spike Jones; Victor). One of 30 current recordings of the song which was No. i on the small-fry hit parade last year. Jones packs away his customary fireworks, turns out a good disc for kids...
...Pierian Sodality has released another new disc, consisting of music from last year's third concert. Walter Piston's Pulitzer Prize-winning Third Symphony is one of those contemporary works which cannot be fully appreciated on first hearing, and this record (pressed by Columbia) should help make the piece accessible...