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The re-evaluation of Elgar in the 1960's is astonishing. The time machine dealt more kindly with his friend Strauss, who may yet, of course, suffer a decline. Elgar died in 1934 and Strauss in 1949. The 1925 recording of Elgar 2 prompted the Editor to rebuke those young critics "who have tried to...

Ouverture a la Triumvirette musicale "Cox et Boxe" et "Bouncer" composee par Arthur S. Sullivan, Paris, 23 Juillet 1867. _Hotel Meurice. So reads the title of the autograph full score of Cox and Box, recently sold at Sotherby's, along with those for The Contrabandista, Trial by Jnry, The Zoo, The...

We record the death of Jan Kiepura and of Frank Sale. Kiepura was a Polish tenor, who with his wife, Martha Eggerth achieved fame in films, and, so far as England was concerned, was chiefly known for his best-selling record of Tell me tonight. He first appeared in Warsaw in 1925, and his last...

A letter from the Chairman of the City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society lays claim to its foundation in 1919 and believes that a society existed in Northampton as early as 1911. There must have been many societies earlier than Acton (1927), and certainly they were flourishing from the...

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