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...club, which distributed several brochures in the Houses and Yard in early December, has advertised widely in colleges and universities. It offers a 38 per cent discount on all records bought. Special sales may reduce prices by 50 per cent. Any LP available in the U.S. may be bought after an enrollment...
Differing from other record clubs, the College Record Club claims that its members may buy as few or as many LP's as they like after enrollment in the society. After the first year, those who have joined may renew their membership at no extra cost...
...Francisco-born Leon Fleisher, he was known as a garden-variety YAP (Young American Pianist). In time he became a DYAP (Distinguished Young American Pianist); now, at 32, he is a fully developed DAP (Distinguished American Pianist), as this superb reading of a popular war horse (22 available LP versions) demonstrates. Fleisher finds a Schumann that is virile, sinewy, full of sharply-profiled contrasts of tone and tempo...
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 4 (the Philadelphia Orchestra, under Eugene Ormandy; Columbia). A rare LP recording of one of the early Prokofiev symphonies all but forgotten in Western concert halls. The composer here is less acerbic, more expansive than in the Scythian Suite or Love for Three Oranges, and the score is curiously uneven, mingling occasional film-score banalities with splendid rhythmic inventions...
...just signed our initials," recalls Marianne, "so he wouldn't know we were unbusinesslike females"). After five days of hounding him, they finally got the poet's agreement, and the six records he turned out for Caedmon before his death have to date sold 400,000 LP copies in the U.S. and abroad...