On the Turn-Table
On the Turn-Table Popular music has come a long way since the turn of thi century. But if you want to measure the distance between a sons by, say, Cole Porter and the favorite of your father...
...5.00) is competently played by the string section of the B.B.C...
...Zora Layman and Frank Luther sing all the old favorites straight—which is amusing enough...
...T."' bad you'll have to get up and change the records...
...if you like Tschaikowsky, this is your meat...
...I earnestly recommend the volume for bored hosts who don't know what to do when the party becomes maudlin...
...Father, Dear Father...
...The recording of the Serenade is well-nigh mechanically perfect and...
...It seems that there's a sort of listener who simply must have "summer" music, although for the world of me I don't understand why Bach or Sibelius can't h( enjoyed in July as well as January...
...Tschaikowsky's Serenade in C Major (Victor...
...Orchestra under the leadership of Sir Adrian Boult...
...Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston "Pops" Orchestra, deposits a potpourri of program music on the doorstep of hi...
...numerically considerable public...
...However, in fairness to the knightconductor I mur t confess that he comes as close to inspiration as is possible for an Englishman...
...This collection is more in the nature of a museum piece than something to be enjoyed for its intrinsic worth and it contains, among others, such masterful tear-jerkers as Break the .Xeus to Mother...
...On the Turn-Table Popular music has come a long way since the turn of thi century...
...There is ro skillful orchestration of sophisticated verse here: instead we are treated to a heavy Sunday musical dinner of simple virtue and a stuffy overlay o f bigh moral rectitude...
...The tunes are very, very drippy...
...But if you want to measure the distance between a sons by, say, Cole Porter and the favorite of your father when he wa: a budding swain, I urge you to get hold of the new Decca album .tt u i f .junya <> I I lie \ju (/ .> Kin ft'5 ($1.90...
...The i»!bnm includes the "Russian and Ludmilla Overture...
...the collection contains the memorable "Alto Rhapsodie" which, as you remember, is the musical version of Goethe's moody poem, "Harzreise im Winter...
...Here it is—a splendid substitute for "Sweet Adeline...
...I am fond of Miss Anderson for a number of reasons but none is greater than my admiration of her purity of tone and her profound musicianship...
...When I opened my door this morning I found Boston "Po/-s" Concert (Victor, $6.50) in a ;,eat box howling for shelter...
...All in all...
...Marian Anderson, to my way of thinkine the greatest livinecontralto and to anyone's way of thinking a most superb representative of her race, comes forward this with Song* of ltr'th)fln (Victor, $6.00 >, an exceedingly satisfying album...
...eat crow is no small achievement either...
...a gentleman who is always sound but rarely inspired...
...But if yon like to enjoy your music from the depths of a well-«lung hammock—here it is...
...In addition to those short f a v o r i t e s , "Der Schmied"and"Dein Blaues Auge...
...Dt'ep River"' ( what a combination ! ) . the "Doctrinen Waltz" and the polonaise from "Eugen Onecii...
...Of course, making the D.A.R...
...a commendable performance...
...Come Hime With Me .Vote, and...
...She's More to Be Pitied Thini Cevsii red...
...Week's best bet: Marian Anidirain — C V H...
...The third movement, the always j>opular " F l e g i e , " is interpreted with considerable insight...
Vol. 22 • July 1939 • No. 26
