Word: phonographers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assured that I will not renew it until either you change your style, or start a phonograph record department, both classical and modernistic, as some one suggested in your columns a year or so ago. Records in the classical field, notably in America-Victor and Columbia-and particularly in the modernistic field-Okeft-have improved tremendously, and I'm sure that quite a few of your subscribers would be interested in such a department...
Statistics may help to show the phenomenal increase in the business. In 1920 there were about 100,000 radio "lans", while in 1927 there were 25,000,000. Radio is so efficient that the phonograph companies use radio tubes in the process of making records. Moreover, radio receiving apparatus is now used to record cable messages...
Victor sells a phonograph with a R. C. A. Radiola contained.† It also has the right to use R. C. A.'s research, as well as General Electric's, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing's, American Telephone & Telegraph's and Western Electric's discoveries in the field of acoustics & sound reproductions...
...Columbia Phonograph Company offered a reward. As sponsor of the Schubert Centennial it wants returned Schubert's Gastein Symphony, written by him during a visit to Gastein, Austria, in 1826, given for safe-keeping that same year to the Society of the Friends of Music of Vienna and lost. The reward...
Committee, under Otto Hermann Kahn, has elaborate plans. There will be: 1) an international composer's contest extending throughout this spring, with prizes of $20,000 to be awarded by the Columbia Phonograph Co.; 2) outdoor singing festivals during the spring and summer, in which choruses the country over will participate; 3) special Schubert concerts in the autumn at which there will be performed cycles of his chamber music, his piano music, his symphonies, and the possible first U. S. performance of a Schubert opera; 4) special commemoration programs to be given on Nov. 19, the anniversary...