![]() ![]() Sony 53327 On This Day Birthsġ756 - German-Swedish composer Joseph Martin Kraus, in Miltenberg, near Mainz ġ819 - German-born French cellist and operetta composer Jacques Offenbach, in Cologne ġ931 - Norwegian composer Arne Nordheim, in Larvik ġ787 - German-born, London-based composer, gamba virtuoso and concert impresario Carl Friedrich Abel, age 63, in London He was a friend and associate of Johann Christian Bach (the "London" Bach) ġ940 - French organ composer Jehan Alain, age 29, killed in action at Petits-Puis, near Saumur ġ716 - Handel: Concerto Grosso in F, Op. Rodgers and Hammerstein South Pacific Ezio Pinza and Mary Martin orchestra Lehman Engel, conductor. Music Played in Today's Programįelix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847) Violin Concerto in e Nathan Milstein, violin New York Philharmonic Bruno Walter, conductor. The 1949 Columbia LP of Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza singing the hit tunes from “South Pacific” became a best-seller, and by 1951 the LP-record had become the industry standard. The following year, Columbia struck pay dirt with its original cast album of a brand-new Broadway musical by Richard Rodgers. In developing its new LP-record, Columbia’s goal was to fit complete classical works onto a SINGLE disc.Ĭolumbia’s first LP release was a recording of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, with Nathan Milstein the soloist and the New York Philharmonic conducted by Bruno Walter. Edward Wallerstein of Columbia Records stood between a big stack of heavy, shellac, 78-rpm albums, the standard for recorded music in those days, and a noticeably slimmer stack of vinyl discs, a new format which Wallerstein had dubbed “LPs” – “long playing” records that spun at 33 & 1/3 revolutions per minute.īefore 1948, if you wanted to buy a recording of a complete symphony or concerto, it meant the purchase of up to a dozen 78s, each playing only four minutes a side. On today’s date in 1948 at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel there was a press demonstration of a new kind of phonograph record.
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