Word: music
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will begin printing in London this month to serve its 7,000 British readers more promptly. In the rock-music world, its influence is immense: recent praise of an unknown Texas blues guitarist named Johnny Winter impressed Columbia Records, which, after hearing him, gave him a $600,000 contract. Most of Stone's ad revenue ($70,000 last year, and rapidly rising) comes from record companies, but its reviewers have felt free to knock such hot-selling performers as Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin and The Doors...
While Editor Wenner considers his paper part of the "youth revolution," he does not automatically accept every part of the youth scene. When young people and police clashed in Palm Springs, Calif., during an Easter vacation pop festival, Stone largely ignored the music in favor of first-rate reporting of the violence. It even had kind words for the cops, who "exercised amazing restraint, ignoring the blatant sexual activities, drinking and doping," until, finally, "the youthful vacationers asked for much of the trouble they got." Stone does not condone the kind of activity that got Singer Jim Morrison charged with...
...commercial accolades in the music business is a gold record, signifying that a given release has had retail sales of $1,000,000 or more. In the pop field, goldies are a dime a dozen, but in the 21-year history of LP, there have been only five million-dollar classical bestsellers. Three of them - The Glorious Sound of Christmas, the Messiah and The Lord's Prayer - were made by the Philadelphia Orchestra,* a top seller down through the years, and the most-recorded orchestra in the U.S. Small wonder, then, that it finds itself right in the middle...
...were all items recorded by Columbia while the Philadelphia still worked for it. Columbia also says it has about 40 more unreleased recordings in its vaults - including all the orchestral works of Brahms, one Bruckner symphony, and two albums with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Says Columbia Artists and Repertory Music Director Thomas Frost: "We have so much material in the can that we can release new records by Ormandy and the Philadelphia regularly for the next five years - and that is exactly what we intend...
From a critical standpoint, RCA's first Philadelphia records are a distinct disappointment. Recorded in the Philadelphia Academy of Music rather than in the ballroom used by Columbia, their sound is often dry and devoid of the luster for which the orchestra is famous. Charles Ives' Third Symphony and an LP of Grieg and Liszt concertos with Pianist Van Cliburn as soloist are the best of the lot. But the Chopin F-minor Concerto with Artur Rubinstein is heavy and graceless, and Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony lacks the bite and immediacy of a nine-year-old version...