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Other album I wanted to mention is included in an experiment by Columbia Records to aid the music student. They have just released a series of albums that they call the "Add-A-Part." Quite simply, the idea is that you get an album of string quartet music minus one part. In the case of the album I received, it was the Bach Double Violin Concerto in D minor, without the first violin part. Included with the album is the complete score for the first violin part, so that you can practice quartet playing to your heart's content...
Gene Lovett is the only returning out-fielder with Varsity experience, but Mike Rice, the fleet Yardling leader of a year ago, and Les Pitchford seem headed for stardom in Crimson pastures. Lee Hartstone and Bill Wood will add the veteran flavor to Coach Stahl's out-field operatives...
...answer questions before they're asked, let's add that Mr. James Puckle took the trouble to explain, 'way back in 1718, that his gun was adapted to "shooting square bullets against-Turks and round bullets against Christians...
Meanwhile, on a visit to the U. S., Violinist Rothschild sold the idea, and a number of his old recordings, to Columbia. Columbia repressed some of the old Rothschild discs, made some new ones, last week issued a catalogue of "Add-a-Part" records, including pianoless and violinless sonatas for violin and piano, celloless and violaless string quartets. Columbia officials were bullish on their venture, foresaw Krupaless and Goodmanless hot records, possibly sololess "Sweet Adeline's" for lonely drinkers...
...feels about this problem, one has a right to expect that a majority of the music in a symphony orchestra's concert will be substantial works which one can take seriously. Light works like Rossini's La Gazza Ladra and Tchaikovsky's Italian Caprice are expected occasionally, for they add a great deal to the attractiveness of a concert and serve as "breathers." However, when this type of music makes up half of a program, and the Reger variations weigh down the other half, one suspects that whoever planned the concert did not think much of his audience...