Word: lp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dust; on the other hand, it had to use discretion, or some old relatives and friends might be offended. Result: two record series on the company's low-priced Camden label, with none of the famed performers identified. The records are dubbings from Victor's pre-LP catalogue, with their dark-hued old sounds partly hi-fizzed through electronic tinkering. The first series contains all of Tchaikovsky's six Symphonies performed by such fictitiously named orchestras as "Centennial," "Warwick," "Cromwell."* The second batch, called The Heart of the Opera, contains excerpts from eleven popular operas (Carmen, Faust...
Strange to Your Ears (with Jim Fassett; Columbia). Fun and games with a tape recorder (on LP), showing how musical tones and the sounds made by dogs, birds and babies change when drastically sped up or slowed down. The effect is startling and instructive, e.g., a piano played in reverse sounds like a reed organ with hiccups, a canary's trill slowed eight times sounds like a baying hound...
...current price of tape (up to $5 per hour), the tapeworm's music will cost him about as much as the most expensive LP; often it will sound better,† because tape at its best reduces surface noise...
Thigamajig (Mel Powell Trio; Vanguard LP). Another in Vanguard's fine jazz series. Powell's piano and the trumpet-playing of Boston's Ruby Braff have a bright fresh effect, both in the oldies, like You're My Thrill, and in the fanciful modernities of Powell's own Bouquet...
Yvette Guilbert (Angel LP). Paris' grand old (1865-1944) Chanteuse Guilbert rasps a few of her naughty ditties in pre-LP French. Titles: Le Fiacre, Partie Carrée, L'Eloge des Vieux...