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...idea for the festival came from Antal Dorati, music director of the National Symphony and, among other things, conductor of a mammoth LP set of all 104 symphonies on London Records (46 records in all). Why a festival? How else, asks Dorati, to show the enormous range of the man and his music? He adds: "He was no child prodigy. He developed so much, from enormous talent into great genius. I do not think it can be coincidence that his greatest work came after he shed his livery." That was of course after he was given free rein...
...Summer Love Sensation, a new item. Everybody is sure the Rollers will be sensational enough to be demanded back. The group will tour 15 cities in the U.S. between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Bernstein is already negotiating a Shea Stadium date for next summer. And the group's first LP has just been released on the Arista label...
Each year some 4,500 different pop albums appear. Breaking in a new recording act, therefore, usually involves a lot of promotional hoopla. Yet Phoebe Snow, the 1974 Shelter LP, arrived unheralded by the trade-magazine campaigns and autographed T shirts that seem to be the star machine's favorite propaganda weapons. A few disc jockeys liked what they heard and began playing the record. Eventually people were talking about the girl with the willowy voice, so supple that she would wrap it around a note, bend it, put a spin on it, and then zoom up or down...
Indeed they have. Since those desert meditations four years ago, the Eagles have become the top U.S. rock band. Their LP, One of These Nights, has been at the top of Billboard's chart for four weeks; they have two gold and two platinum albums; some 850,000 people will pay $5 million to see them on their current 59-city tour...
...nation's economic squeeze-a few companies report sales down as much as 30%-Motown Record Corp., the black pop-music giant, has given Megastar Stevie Wonder, 25, a new contract for a guaranteed minimum of $13 million. If the singer-songwriter delivers more than the single annual LP required by the seven-year agreement, he can earn up to $24 million. The largest parcel handed out yet by a record company, Wonder's contract is worth as much as the Elton John ($8 million) and Neil Diamond (about $5 million) deals combined. Motown's announcement...