Word: phonograph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio, phonograph or refrigerator? Too bad; after present supplies run out, no more can be made...
...Saint Paul (Minn.) Gallery & School of Art has equipped its main gallery with a phonograph, on which visitors last week could play a recorded lecture explaining its current exhibition of French war posters. Saint Paul's phonograph not only saved lecturers' fees but has upped attendance...
...phonograph companies, noting that record buyers were growing more samba-conscious, had seven albums on the market. A year ago they had none...
...jazz devotees as author of the first serious book on the subject: Aux Frontières du Jazz (1930). Critic Goffin both looked and sounded authoritative. "Tiger Rag" said he, "is the second tableau of a quadrille I used to dance to in Brussels as a boy." Phonograph records illustrated his points...
Dmitri Shostakovich started making himself understood in 1926, when, in contrast to much modern music that sounded merely disillusioned, cynical and ugly, young Shostakovich's First Symphony spoke up brightly with gusty tunes and youthful zest. This month, phonograph record shops all over the U.S. put on display two outstanding albums of the premier Russian musician: his Symphony No. 6 (Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski; Victor; 9 sides); his Piano Quintet (Vivian Rivkin and Stuyvesant String Quartet; Columbia; 8 sides...