Word: musicically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Music lovers may enjoy a rare opportunity tonight at 8:30 when the Boston Society of Ancient Instruments will present at the Memorial Church a concert of viol compositions of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries...
Although there will be confusion in every buyer's mind for a while, the general effect of the two records is definitely good for the consumer. Both records have greater quality possibilities than old-type records, and they are cheaper. The Columbia record has the advantage of presenting classical music without annoying breaks. The competition between the records has proved a bonanza for the buyer with numrous price slashes evident everywhere...
...question is what are the real differences between the two records. The leading considerations are speed of revolution and playing time. Both records use speeds slower than ordinary. Victor uses the gain in time to reduce the size of the record; Columbia puts more music on the standard size record. Victor's claim that its speed of 45 revolutions per minute is better than Columbia's 33 1/3 is true only in an historical sense. The Victor speed presents a much easier engineering problem than the Columbia speed. Victor records, therefore, have a uniform quality while Columbia's quality varies...
...Postcards. The sale of 200,000 postcards a year (in 100 varieties) supports a local printing plant, one of the largest of its kind in England. Shakespeare recordings are snapped up in the town's music stores. Booksellers do a whopping business. Says one: "Everybody wants to buy an edition of Shakespeare so he can write 'Bought in Stratford-upon-Avon' on the flyleaf." The Bardolators also pay admission to Shakespeare's birthplace, to Anne Hathaway's cottage, and to the church where Shakespeare was baptized and buried...
...Music: to NBC for the NBC Symphony, Orchestras of the Nation and the First Piano Quartet, "a record of enterprise to be proud...