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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mozart: Divertimento No. 10 (K. 247) (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Victor: 6 sides) and Divertimento No. 17 (K. 334) (Lener Quartet with Aubrey and Dennis Brain, horns; Columbia: 10 sides). First complete recordings of two early but elegant Mozart items...
Album of American Music for Orchestra (Eastman-Rochester Symphony, Howard Hanson conducting; Victor: 8 sides). Conductor Hanson's anthology (mostly of familiar items by Chadwick, MacDowell, et al.) is chiefly remarkable for the first recording of a shimmering little impressionistic piece, Night Soliloquy by a 26-year-old Michigan composer named Kent Wheeler Kennan...
Schubert: Symphony in C Major (London Symphony, Bruno Walter conducting; Victor: 12 sides). First top-notch recording of one of the greatest, and longest, romantic symphonies...
Really interesting record came out this week on Victor: Tommy Dorsy's "Stomp It Off." For the last year, this column has been panning Tommy pretty regularly for turning out nothing but obnoxious sweet music. Lately, however, Tommy's popularity rating has been taking a beating. Evidently he has finally worken up to the fact that one of the biggest factors in his decline has been that the fans felt that all his pieces sounded the same--that they could tell what a new Tommy Dorsey arrangement was going to sound like long before they heard...
...Jimmy's Decca record and the Victor of Tommy if you want to see something interesting...