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MENDELSSOHN: Five Symphonies; Three Overtures. Claudio Abbado conducting the London Symphony Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophon; 4 LPs or CDs). Imagine the history of 19th century music if Felix Mendelssohn had been the great romantic icon instead of Beethoven. In place of egocentric storms there would be grace and lucidity; instead of anguish there would be serenity and inner peace. The masterpieces produced by such disparate composers as Brahms, Wagner and Mahler % under Beethoven's spell are justly prized, of course, but the romantics could have used a little less irascibility and more agreeability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Throwing Down the Gauntlet | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

...cross-pollination creates a lively cultural blend. In Juarez, a popular hangout is the Kentucky Club, where mostly Mexican patrons select from such jukebox favorites as Duke Ellington and Julio Iglesias. Across the river in El Paso, Mexican teenagers from Juarez buy heavy metal rock LPs from Star Records, a music shop, since such disks are scarce in their city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Border Symbiosis | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

...composer's career from the turn of the century to his death in 1945. In Britain, where the composer met his first stage success (and his only wife), three more revues are wending their way toward the West End. In the past two years, half a dozen new Kern LPs have been released; recent interpreters of his songs include Joanne Woodward, Kiri Te Kanawa and, mewling All the Things You Are, Michael Jackson. Most of the tributes, though, are lovingly appropriate. They serve less to revive Kern's music than to offer proof of its enduring vitality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can't Help Lovin' Those Tunes | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

...revolutionizing the classical record industry. From nothing just two years ago, sales grew to 5.2 million disks last year; in recent months, the Polygram complex of classical labels (Deutsche Grammophon, Philips and London) took in about as much money in CD sales in the U.S. as it did from LPs and tapes combined. Superior in almost every respect to conventional records, CDs will send the LP the way of the 78 within the next decade, possibly sooner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Good Things in Small Packages | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

...first wave of CDs featured orchestral blockbusters to show off the digital sound's wide dynamic range. The true test of recording technology, however, is the piano. Wow, flutter and tape hiss--ills that LPs are heir to --are all magnified in piano music, but they are drastically reduced, if not entirely eliminated, with CDs. And while flat-earthers may still decry what they hear as a clinical, metallic quality in digital CD recordings, such reservations will disappear as recording engineers adapt their techniques to the demands of the new medium. The best of the current CD piano releases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Good Things in Small Packages | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

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