Word: mckenna
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...McKenna believe it," screeched the Sage of the Age, fumbling his Ming stein. "Did you Reed that Mother Nature will be Wagner rain clouds over Princeton today. The Weber will be terrible...
Harvard men have such esthetic musical tastes." From the lips of Grace Lyons at McKenna's--and it could just as well have been heard at Briggs and Briggs--the phrase was a complaint. But just a little altered, it might by a shy boast of the Music Department, which rates partial credit for a most astounding revolution in Cantabridgian taste...
Indifference and its tradition no longer extend into the musical areas of University life, if the sales figures on phonograph records, concerts, and recitals mean anything. A new phenomenon of what might be called selective enthusiasm has moved in lock, stock and barrel: when Briggs & Briggs and McKenna's can sell out their first shipment of the new "Messiah" recording within two days of arrival, when undergraduates will line up for copies of Italian Cetra discs at $3.25 a shot, when the inability of undergraduates to find seats at the BSO's Sanders Theater concerts begins rumblings of revolt...
...Cambridge is concerned, two of the Square's music shops are already selling unusual foreign records in limited quantities, and the flow is expected to increase. Briggs and Briggs has on hand a few copies of some Cetra (Italian) releases and is daily expecting a shipment of HMV discs; McKenna's has already received 1000 HMV records, including such choice items as the Schnabel Beethoven Sonata Society sets, the Fischer recordings of the Bach 48 Preludes and Fugues, and songs from the Wintereisse sung by Gerhard Husch; and both of the stores have the Polydor version of the Missa Solemnjs...