Word: vox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 8 (Pathétique) in C Minor (Erno Balogh, Vox, 4 sides; Rudolf Serkin, Columbia, 6 sides). Two versions of a much-needed recording. Balogh plays with grace, Serkin with passion. Performance of both: good...
...primarily to blame for audience-participation shows in radio is Parks (Vox Pop) Johnson. He started it all in 1932 when he set up a microphone in front of Houston's Rice Hotel and started to question passers-by while he threw in commercial plugs for a local clothing store. But now that audience shows are grabbing the biggest single slice of radio time, Parks Johnson, like many a listener, has his doubts about it all. Said he last week...
Mozart: Salzburg Serenades (Chamber Symphony Orchestra, Edvard Fendler conducting; Vox, 8 sides). The small orchestra, clambering delightfully through divertissements by the youthful Mozart, sounds like a baroque music box. Vox, a new firm recording rarely heard classics, is owned by George Mendelssohn, the composer's great-great-grandson. Performance: good...
Whatever character the negotiations called for, the Great Actor had it: Mephistopheles in a baggy, black business suit; Daniel Webster, crouching behind his eyebrows; Billy Sunday, with the vox humana in his trombone voice; Bette Davis, crying like a curlew; John Barrymore, tearing an emotion to tatters...
...asked him. "Forty-eight, Brother Birdwell," replied Professor Quigley, "not counting the tuba mirabilis. . . . Those reeds duplicate the human throat. They got timbre," he added ("landing on the French word the way a hen lands on the water"). "How many stops?" asked Jess. "Eight," said the professor. "And that vox humana! . . . You can hear the voice of your lost child in it. Did you ever lose a child, Brother Birdwell?" "No," said Jess. "[Then] you can hear the voice of your old mother calling to you from the further shore," said the professor. "Ma lives in Germantown," said Jess...