Word: lps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rossini: L'ltaliana in Algeri (Giulletta Simionato, Cesare Valletti; La Scala Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini; Angel, 2 LPs). A gay, foolish romp through romantic North Africa, featuring a harem, a love-bored bey and a high-spirited Italian girl. Hardly an ounce of musical passion, but plenty of pretty coloratura parts and some elegant singing by the principals...
Looking Forward. When the all-out audiophile swings into action, his pet weapon is the tape recorder, with which he captures music for future use from his FM radio or his own and his friends' LPs...
...recorded tape is now being pushed by manufacturers. It is nearly twice as expensive as LPs and less convenient, but, played on medium-fi sets, sounds roughly comparable...
...Rockefeller Foundation (TIME, Jan. 18, 1954), it has commissioned and played a new work for almost every week in the year. Records and tapes are played on Louisville's closed circuit and radio programs are also sent to the Voice of America, the BBC and European stations. LPs of the new music are pressed (by Columbia) for commercial release at $65 per twelve-disk set. If enough people subscribe, the record sales will gradually make the program self-sustaining. Current headache: only 300 subscriptions out of the necessary 1,000 came in last year...
...expensive performances. Angel, Westminster, Vox and Cook all claim special qualities for their recordings, are hewing to the original $5.95 price line. Others have agreed on a $4.98 "suggested" price. Manhattan's Sam Goody's, the major record discount house, continued to discount the "suggestions," advertised classical LPs for as much as 29% off. Billboard reported one significant change "deep [in] the country's economy": the pawnshop value has dropped from $1.25 to $1 a disk...