Word: victrola
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just the Answer. Victor, which hauled out its venerable old Victrola label to kick off its new line, offers a rich lode of glittering bargains ($2.50 for each mono LP, $3 for stereo). Among them: Puccini's Tosca with Soprano Zinka Milanov; Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" with Pierre Monteux and the Boston Symphony; and Brahms's Concerto No. 2 with Russian Pianist Emil Gilels backed by Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony. Vanguard Records' new line, Everyman, includes a fine performance of Haydn's Creation, conducted by Mogens Wo¨ldike...
...subsequently found to be James Gaffney '64. "We're picketing because we don't think the House should be used for this kind of thing," Gaffney said. He refused to comment on whether he was violating army regulations by picketing in uniform. In the background, a victrola played "Be Kind to Our Fine-Feathered Friends...
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra: RCA Victrola). Pierre Monteux gives a fine reading of his fellow countryman's most popular work. Made in 1960, this is one of an armful of records recently dropped from Victor's big catalogue and now reissued at about half their former price on a revived, well-remembered label: Victrola...
...twin brother and I were eleven or thereabouts at the peak of the player-piano era. At home we listened to young Elman, young Heifetz and Maude Powell on the Victrola, but at Grandma's house there was a player piano. It didn't take long for our little minds to discover that by unwinding the rolls the length of the living room and entry hall and rewinding them in reverse we could achieve a definite departure from approved pianola techniques...
When Leontyne was five, Kate traded in the family Victrola as down payment for a piano. "When she came home from school." says Kate, "that child had one-half of a fit." On the other side of town, on North Fifth Avenue, lived the Alexander Chisholms. Elizabeth Wisner Chisholm was the daughter of a lumber baron, and Alexander Chisholm a Vermonter who met his wife while she was a music major at Smith...