Word: phonographers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the note-worthy...
...radio, the phonograph and the better movie houses seem to be achieving the popular education in music that they set as one of their chief goals. At a local movie house the other night there was a waiting line, and as several hundred people stood about, somebody started to whistle. He rendered the "Arlesienne" Suite of Bizet, correct as to all its tricky intricacies. Somebody responded with the third movement of the Beethoven Fifth. Presently there was a lusty twittering all through the lobby: one heard the Tschaikowsky Sixth, the "Meistersinger" Prelude, the Brahms Third, the Ravel Bolero, the Gershwin...
...Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy...
...Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy * Opera: Siegfried, by the London Symphony under Albert Coates and Robert Heger, the Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra under Leo Blech, the Vienna Staatsoper Orchestra under Karl Alwin and famed Wagnerian Singers (Victor, $15)-Tenor Lauritz Melchior, who looks like any fat boy when he sings Siegfried at Bayreuth and Manhattan's Metropolitan, proves an excellent phonograph artist. Contralto Maria Olszewska and Soprano Frida Leider, expert members of the Chicago Civic Opera, sing Erda and Briinnhilde. Die Meistersinger, the aria Wahn! Wahn! (Victor, $2)- As Cobbler Hans Sachs, Baritone...
...then became a chorus girl, and it was not until two years later that I learned I had a good voice. After hearing me over the radio, the phonograph people asked me to make records. Well, it wasn't long then until Ziegfeld heard me, and put me in his shows...