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LI OW does the past decade of long-playing records look to the artists who fashion the musical performances ? I put a set of questions to the following artists, who were kind enough to devote a good deal of time to providing their answers: Sir Adrian Boult, formerly chief conductor of the B.B.C....

England in 1950 wrought many changes that could hardly have been foreseen by either dealers or manufacturers and certainly not by buyers. Prior to 1950 everything was neat and tidy, and easily managed. Manufacture was almost entirely in the hands of the Decca and E.M.I. Groups of companies which...