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...madrigals that contain such daring harmony and such sensitivity that many historians consider him centuries ahead of his time, see in him a musical contemporary of Richard Wagner. Until recently, the modern public has had little chance to savor the sorrows of Gesualdo, but now a first-class LP has been released on the Sunset label with five singers led by young (28) California Conductor Robert Craft, a protege of Composer Igor Stravinsky. The album is "presented by" Author Aldous Huxley, who has long been fascinated by Gesualdo's violent career, and is now equally fascinated by his madrigals...
...into Lady's clinking till. Tickets are almost impossible to get; scalpers demand as much as $50 for choice seats. Overall, Fair Lady's producers expect to gross some $5,000,000 (including $5,000 a week for Harrison) on their $401,000 production, and the Columbia LP record of the songs should gross at least another...
Just as on Broadway, My Fair Lady is a smash hit of the record industry. On the market for nine weeks, Columbia Records had shipped some 200,000 LP recordings of the show (list price: $4.98) by the end of last week, and orders were coming in at a joyous rate of some 10,000 a day-or at about the clip of a good-selling pop single. Equally gratifying to showfolk was the advance order for two versions, single LP and big (3 LP) album, of Broadway's latest hit musical. The Most Happy Fella, which, at more...
...beat is the pulse of jazz, and when it fades it is best to have a doctor in the house. Teddy Charles, a widely experienced jazz man from Chicopee Falls, Mass., researches the problem with his vibraphone and nine congenial colleagues, develops a nice cure on an adventurous new LP, The Teddy Charles Tentet (Atlantic...
...always wants me to take it easy." Today, counting concert performances at $3,000 each, some 40 Met performances a season at $1,000 each, Tenor Tucker is in the $100,000 bracket. He is a big seller in the operatic record field. The latest: Starring Richard Tucker (Columbia LP), one of the finest one-man recitals on records...