Word: labels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adulterated Scores. Most important label in the mass market (25? to 49?) is Golden Records, a profitable subsidiary of giant book-publisher Simon & Schuster, which claims about half of the entire field...
...companies for years. Hundreds of ear-hardened operagoers surge around stage doors just for a glimpse of her. Thousands of others have snapped up tens of thousands of the 13 full-length opera recordings that she has made for Italy's Cetra. Britain's E.M.I, (the Angel label...
Pressure & Ads. The taboo against using the Negro label is the product of pressure groups and the conscientious efforts of newspapers to be fair to a minority. Once it was hardly a problem, since newspapers ran little news about Negroes. But now newspapers are running far more news about the Negro than ever before, partly because of his gradual rise in U.S. society, partly because they are wooing him as a reader since his improved economic status has interested advertisers in the Negro market...
...work have always resisted the efforts of record makers, and are still a bit troublesome on these three latest versions. Conductor Walter's has a certain dramatic excitement but also a rather thick tone; Scherchen's (in the same performance recorded two years ago on the Westminster label) is a bit shaky in the soprano area, and his lugubrious tempos do not help; Jochum's is sometimes buried in sound, but all in all, his version is the best of the lot. The soloists (Soprano Irmgard Seefried is on both Columbia and Decca) are all excellent...
...only will "party regulars" control the effort instead of "University Eggheads," but a basic facet of the campaign strategy here will be an attempt to disassociate Adlai's name from Harvard, and instead connect it with the Democratic Party label...