Word: lp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accidental death last summer at 35. The orchestra sounds wonderfully clear and portentous, as though this were the last music to be played on the day of doom. Although Klemperer's playing time is actually shorter than Bernstein's, Angel chose to record the piece on three LP sides, filling the fourth with five Mahler songs...
...question is no longer whether stereo sound is here to stay, but how long monaural sound can last. Today, three out of five phonographs sold are stereo, as are about half of all new LP records. Even the new monaural phonographs are now equipped to play stereo records without damaging them. So it seemed a natural step last week when Columbia, RCA Victor and Capitol Records announced they were eliminating the only competitive advantage that mono LPs have by raising their price $1, making them as costly as stereo...
...most beautiful I'd heard in years." She began spicing her recital programs with Beatle numbers, arranged in classic styles by artists such as Pianist Peter Serkin, who scored a contrapuntal Bachground for Yesterday. She has now recorded a dozen Beatle songs on an LP called Revolution, which was recently released in the U.S. on the Fontana label in a jacket that sedulously apes the Beatles' last album, Revolver...
...Albums of golden oldies are giving way to collections of shiny newies. This is the instant anthology of the folk-rock group known as the Lovin' Spoonful: five songs from their Day Dream album, one from their Hums and six from Do You Believe in Magic, their first LP, which is not yet two years old. In any event, the new collection is already one of the top sellers, proving that one hit album deserves another, even if it consists of more or less the same songs...
...Toscanini Musicians Knew,* it is one of the most fitting of this year's series of centennial tributes, which has also included memorial concerts around the world, the opening of a museum of Toscanini mementos at his birthplace in Parma, and RCA Victor's new five-LP set of historic broadcasts by Toscanini arid the NBC Symphony, never before available on records...