Word: lp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Columbia recorded Weingartner's performances of all 13 symphonies. Bestsellers in their day, they have long been out of stock. Now, "by request," Columbia has repressed them on LP. Few listeners will side with Debussy. Weingartner proves to be a tidy conductor indeed, but from these recordings, some made with the Vienna Philharmonic, some with the London Symphony, his chief characteristic seems to be mellow and spacious splendor...
Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer (Blanche Thebom, mezzo-soprano, with orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult; Victor, I side LP). Mahler's hauntingly lovely song cycle here gets a pure and richly expressive performance. Recording: excellent...
Mozart: Quintet in A, K. 581 (Benny Goodman, clarinet; the American Art Quartet; Columbia, 2 sides LP). Mozart was fascinated with the "soft, sweet breath" of the clarinet, still a novelty in his day. He wrote three chamber works for it, of which this is the best. Benny Goodman plays cleanly and with style. Recording: excellent...
...Tenors (Victor, 2 sides LP). A chance, though not an absolutely fair one, to compare tenors of the past and present. The two sides offer Enrico Caruso, John McCormack, Beniamino Gigli, James Melton, Jussi Bjoerling, Jan Peerce, Set Svanholm, Ferrucio Tagliavini, Giuseppe Di Stefano and Mario Lanza singing favorite arias. Lanza has as good a natural voice as any of them, but it begs for training...
...Goody was selling about $200,000 worth of records a year in a small shop. Goody, deciding that LPs were the coming thing, dumped most of his stock of 78-r.p.m.s at 50% off. To push the LPs, he offered them at 30% discount. He threw in an LP attachment free with every $25 worth of records, to date has given away 20,000. He flooded schools and colleges with direct-mail literature touting his 30% discounts word-of-mouth advertising did the rest. His sales shot up to an estimated $1,900,000 last year; in the first...