Word: phonographers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three big U. S. phonograph record manufacturers (RCA Manufacturing Co., Decca, American Record Corp.) have been doing a steadily improving business since the abysmal days of 1933. Last week three small record companies were making good news for U. S. disc-dilettanti. Founded by earnest amateurs of music, all were operating in Manhattan, all on smallish budgets. For their material, all had gone into the byways of classical music, in some cases with such gratifying results that the big recording companies were following their lead...
...Germany this summer we discovered a new kind of phonograph record called "Spiel mil." These records of the best chamber music are prepared by good musicians with one part missing on the phonograph. The sheet music for the missing part is supplied with the record. The student by this method can play the record, hear first the sounding of a, then comes the beating of time for one measure, and, after a measure of silence, the music begins, making it possible for the student to join in with his own instrument...
While the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled last week that Bandsman Fred Waring and other musicians who make phonograph records have the sole right to determine where and for how much money their discs may be broadcast, in Manhattan a formula drawn up by representatives of some 250 U. S. broadcasting stations promised both more money and more work for musicians who play directly over the radio. President Joseph N. Weber of the American Federation of Musicians had threatened a music strike if broadcasters did not hire enough new musicians to bring total expenditures for radio music from...
Tchaikovsky's sombre Romeo & Juliet Overture usually takes 16 min., or four or five sides of phonograph records, to present the strife between Montagues & Capulets, the love between their offspring, the appearance of Friar Laurence, the death of the lovers. By cutting whole pages of repetition and development, Conductor Kostelanetz will give casual listeners this week a pretty good idea what Tchaikovsky was driving at in only 285 sec. flat. Likewise the overture to The Barber of Seville will be reduced from 7 min. to 1½ min. and the late George Gershwin's 16-min. American...
Hundred-watt stations are penny-antes in the gigantic game of radio, and opinion was divided last week whether Elliott can make much money from them. KABC, for example, is housed in an unimpressive seven-room suite, plays many phonograph records, has only one specialty-night baseball broadcasting. It has made a little money. As for KFJZ, Elliott last week told the F.C.C. that his wife knows everyone in Fort Worth and that the station's business is already increasing in anticipation of her ownership...