Word: symphonicment
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The Epic label will bring to the U.S. another strong European catalogue controlled by Philips of The Netherlands. Unlike Angel, which is importing finished recordings, Epic imports master tapes, manufactures its records in the U.S. Epic's first releases concentrate on such symphonic war horses as Beethoven's...
Last week the President: ¶ Performed a painful (for him) presidential duty: accompanied his wife to the opening concert of the National Symphony Orchestra. Ike's musical tastes are simple. He shares Harry Truman's fondness for piano music, and likes to listen to authentic hillbilly ballads, but...
Sylvia was indeed a hit. For one thing, it moved to a perfectly lyrical score by the father of modern ballet music, Léo Delibes (1836-91). Delibes, a musical whiz-kid who was accepted at the Paris Conservatory when he was twelve, became a church organist in his...
For music lovers, the long-play record has produced a top bonanza. New titles are being issued at ten times the rate they were on 78-r.p.m. disks. The new records also seem to deserve credit for broadening tastes. Where Chopin's Polonaise and the Boston Pops recording of...
* To determine which are the "greatest" achievements, Lehman consulted specialists in each field, checked and coordinated their lists (e.g., Olin Downes's Symphonic Masterpieces, H. B. Lemon's From Galileo to Cosmic Rays) of what they considered the outstanding contributions. Because a man still living may yet produce...