Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...serious music lover finds little to cheer about these days on the local record scene. Victor and Columbia catalogues are incomplete or inaccurate; lists of many important recordings are missing and fine albums have been out of stock for years. The quality of twelve inch disks, while improved since the war, is still ragged, with imperfect surfaces and edges and gritty tone creeping up all too often. Needless duplication of the Tschaikowsky, Beeethoven, and Brahms symphonies wastes precious material while the lesser known but valuable works of such composers as Mozart, Purcell, and most moderns are sadly neglected. American catalogues...
...been counted. Score: for a republic, 4,103,000; for the King, 179,275. Promptly the National Assembly had proclaimed the People's Republic. There was nothing left for Bulgaria's nine-year-old Simeon II to do but join his grandfather, Italy's ex-King Victor Emmanuel, in Egypt. This week, Simeon and his mother packed for exile...
Minister of the Interior Victor Román y Reyes had passed the word to innumerable Somoza relatives in important Government posts, and the tight machine that combined local military and civil governorships in one henchman's hands executed the dictator's orders as smoothly as ever. It was still Somozaland...
...willing to assert. But last week two scores by Hollywood's No. 1 sound-track composer, Miklos Rozsa, were fast-moving items. His Spellbound Concerto, adapted from his Oscar-winning music for Spellbound, had sold 100,000 sets at $4 each; his Lost Weekend music was one of Victor's top ten "semi-classical" sellers...
...Victor Records, remembering how Chopin sales boomed after A Song to Remember came out, released four Concerto versions at once, ranging from a "definitive" one by Artur Rubinstein and the NBC Symphony to a syrupy foxtrot by Freddy Martin, who also has Tchaikovsky's blood on his hands...