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Kostalonetz has always been one of my idols and I hoped that his first records in a long while (of "Selections from Porgy and Best," "Claire De Lune," and "Pavane" by Ravel) would he up to the standard he has set on his radio program. Kosty has always had the...
"I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" by the same group of swing stars that Freddle Rich used for a previous date has Benny Carter trumpet and arrangements worth catching . . . "More Than You Know" by the Carter band itself is swell, as is the reverse "Shuffiebug Shuffle." Why this fine band isn...
Several weeks ago many readers were offended by a sentence in this column which, without explanation, dismissed the Brahms symphonies as "academic exercises". What I meant by the statement is this: when one listens to a Tchaikowski symphony, such as the Fourth or Fifth, one follows easily and clearly the...
More than a year ago the New York Post, as a promotion stunt, sold albums of symphonic records, at $1.93 per set of three or four, to coupon-clipping readers.
Such sales of cheap records by last week had helped along a significant price change in the U. S. record industry, which until recent years had kept its prices stiff and proud. In the early 19305 radio competition cut U. S. disc sales to 10,000,000 a year. While...