Word: grunfeld
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...task is undertaken in the current issue of High Fidelity magazine by Frederic Grunfeld, who runs the Mutual Broadcasting System's Musical Almanac. Drawing heavily on the work of the eminent British social scientist and author, Stephen Potter (Gamesmanship, Lifemanship, etc.), Grunfeld develops in a series of case histories some basic principles of Diskmanship. Writes he: "A single record, properly selected and bestowed, can serve to establish beyond question the authority of the giver for a year or longer," and persuade the other fellow that he is hopelessly tin-eared. Some successful Diskmen...
...Diskman Grunfeld writes with nostalgia of the simple days when an obscure composer named Franz Drdla* "was one of the few pieces of out-of-the-way information one had to remember" and "there were never more than two [versions] of anything and in many cases not even one, so the only hazard was being caught off-base discussing nonexistent issues." Today, says Grunfeld, there is so much music on the market that some connoisseurs are forced to specialize in such restricted areas as complete Beethoven Quartet issues. When quizzed about some rare or new release that he knows absolutely...