Word: phonographers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...muddle them by conversing loudly. Later the class lasts longer-15 minutes for study, 15 for answers-with harder work to do: mathematical examples, psalms or poetry to be learned, a picture to be gazed at. The distractions get worse & worse: a vacuum cleaner buzzing, an alarm clock, a phonograph record...
Columbia had been founded by Publisher H. M. Newman of the Fourth Estate, was affiliated with Columbia Phonograph Co. and the Arthur Judson Concert Bureau. Broadcaster Newman got time on WOR and WABC. Then he sold control to a Philadelphia contractor, Jerome Louchheim. When Contractor Louchheim turned Columbia Broadcasting System over to young William Paley it consisted of WABC and 15 affiliated stations bound under loose contracts, and it was costing him more money every...
...establishment in Leverett House of a "library" of phonograph records is an excellent idea. The only real way to learn music and to appreciate it is to hear it, and there are many students who would like to become more familiar with it. Others get a particular enjoyment out of listening to music. These men might feel that they could afford the time and the money to go to the symphony or to various recitals perhaps once a week. Few could afford to buy a victrola and the expensive records that they want. This innovation will provide some students with...
...have children soloists but Yehudi has been invited to play with the orchestras in all the great capitals. In Berlin when he was 12 he played in one evening the concertos of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms. In the Beethoven he played the Kreisler cadenza which he had learned from a phonograph record. (Most violinists play the Joachim cadenza. Beethoven's own, unworthy of him, was never published.) When he had finished the crowd stood cheering for 20 minutes. After the performance Albert Einstein rushed up to him with tears in his eyes. At the great Augusteo Theatre in Rome this...
There is an excellent "Silly Symphony", which takes as its musical background an old-time hit of program-music called "A Hunt in the Black Forest". Its companion-piece on old phonograph records, "In a Clock Store", is the basis for the cartoon now playing at the Fine Arts...