Word: vox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after having earned a solid reputation as a recitalist in European cities, Ponti broke into recording in a characteristically lavish way. Vox Records wanted to record what seemed like the whole of the romantic piano literature and asked Ponti to be the performer. Since then he has made 25 LPs, including the complete piano music of Tchaikovsky, and is now working on Scriabin and Rachmaninoff. Largely as a result of this extensive background, he now has enough solo pieces in his head to turn out a six-hour nonstop recital. In addition, he can play any of 50 concertos...
Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (Nonesuch, 2 LPs; $5.96). Every Mahlerian worth his Knaben Wunderhorn knows the name and work of Kiev-born Conductor lascha Horenstein. Nearly two decades ago, Vox Records issued his performances of the Mahler First and Ninth, and they are still unsurpassed for their particular blend of pathos and playfulness. Recently, Horenstein, 73, has begun recording regularly again with the London Symphony Orchestra and has now produced a lofty version of Mahler's hymn to nature that is more than a match for the honored interpretations by Leonard Bernstein, Erich Leinsdorf and Rafael Kubelik...
Brendel began playing at six, made his debut at 17. A year later he won Italy's Concorso Busoni, one of the most demanding piano competitions in Europe. By the time he was 30, his affinity for Beethoven's music had asserted itself, and Vox, a record company that appreciated both his brilliance and his beginner's price, hired him for a vast project: 36 long-playing sides of Beethoven's piano works. In a fit of fiction, the company added its own credits to Brendel's. He has been plagued by their inventiveness ever...
...equally important lesson of the results may be the reminder that vox populi still has the ability to surprise. Britons aged 18 to 20 were voting for the first time in a general election-just as Americans in a comparable age group may be casting their ballots in 1972. Contrary to expectations, the young Britons made no important difference for Labor. In an age of computers, all but one of Britain's polling firms were almost preposterously wrong. Politicians need to learn anew from time to time-as in the 1948 U.S. presidential election or in the 1969 French...
Later in the evening, after the results of the poll had been tabulated, it was announced that the citizens of Dorchester had voted down the use of Neponset by a 3-1 margin. The Vox Populi had spoken, and if the four councillors liked their jobs, they were going to go along...