Word: victor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto in B Flat Minor (Vladimir Horowitz, with Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony; Victor; 8 sides; $4.50). The piece which most people know (from its opening themes) as Tonight We Love, Concerto for Two, etc., gets a brilliant recording, with "The Old Man" driving his Son-in-law Horowitz and the orchestra without mercy...
Phonograph records for children last week began their seasonal boom. Victor, most kiddie-conscious of disc makers, released its Christmas list: six sides from Walt Disney's Dumbo, and eleven Bluebird (Victor's cheaper label) albums. Seven of the eleven albums are the work of Helen Myers, who is the Rodgers & Hart of pint-sized music. Miss Myers, onetime Oklahoma City Junior Leaguer, Phi Beta Kappa, concert and jive pianist (a year at Manhattan's Rainbow Room), composer of moderately successful popular songs, has been with Victor for two years, dreaming up ideas for the children...
...sheltered youngsters is Decca's current children's list: Tarzan of the Apes and Superman's Christmas Adventure. Both Decca and Victor offer recordings of Dickens' Christmas Carol; in Decca's, the Scrooge is Ronald Colman. Columbia puts out Prokofieff's musical fairy tale, Peter and the Wolf. The music is well handled by Leopold Stokowski and his All American Youth Orchestra, but Basil Rathbone's narration lacks the imposing resonance of Richard Hale in the earlier Victor...
Modern Design (Sammy Kaye; Victor). The celebrated boo-eeps of Pall Mall's radio plug. Listeners to the record are supposed to join in with their own boo-eeps, as Sammy Kaye's audiences...
West. Only undefeated big-time team on the West Coast is now Santa Clara, which beat Michigan State 7-to-0 last week. But Buck Shaw's Broncos have a bumpy road ahead: Oklahoma, Stanford (victor over San Francisco, 42-to-26, last week), Oregon, St. Mary's and U.C.L.A...