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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britten: A Ceremony of Carols (the RCA Victor Chorale of Women's Voices, with Laura Newell, harpist; Robert Shaw conducting; Victor, 6 sides, 45 r.p.m.). Benjamin Britten's settings of these Old English verses, some of them anonymous, are ingeniously simple and tonally beautiful. Performance and recording: excellent...
...crisis and no public appeal for funds has ever been made. It sometimes matches its more than $1,000,000 of annual expenses with more than a million in income from ticket sales, broadcasting fees (last year, $117,000 from NBC) and record royalties (last year, $167,000 from RCA Victor). When expenses and income do not match, the hand that is held out to the "Friends of the Boston Symphony Orchestra" is always quickly and quietly filled. As white-haired Manager George E. Judd (34 years with the Boston) puts it: "We set our sights on what we want...
...RCA Victor last week made a low bow to a competitor whose existence it had pointedly ignored. On display for RCA distributors last week went new radio-phonograph combinations which will play not only RCA's 45 and the standard (78 r.p.m.) record, but Columbia's 33⅓ r.p.m. long-playing record as well. The phonographs will be on sale early next year...
Record dealers knew the reason for the switch: LP records, made not only by Columbia but by 21 other manufacturers, have been outselling RCA's 45, although RCA sales have been picking up since its new promotion campaign (TIME, Sept. 5). Announcement of the new machines stirred up more gossip that RCA would soon put its classical music on LP records, keep making the 45s for popular tunes only...
...purpose of the RCA Scholarship grants is to aid 'deserving students of outstanding ability" who are concentrating in any field of the pure sciences or in various branches of engineering...