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PRE - RECORDED TAPES Mozart made it fairy -like, made the low THE, MUSIC BOX comedy delicious, and made Sarastro and by freemasonry majestic. -Irmgard Seefried (s), Wilma Lipp (s), A -V Tape Emmy Loose (s), Anton Dermota (t), Peter Libraries Klein (t), Erich Kunz (bne), Ludwig Weber A service featuring: PLAYABLE ON ii.'. TAPE RECORDERS (bs); Chorus of the Friends of Music. Vienna, and Vienna Philh. Orch., , cond. Columbia SL 115 All records guaranteed brand MUSIC SERIES Three 12 -in. 2 hr. 8 min. $16.35 new unplayed copies. and -Tiana Lemnitz (s), Erna Berger (s), Irma - complete symphonies Beilke (s), Helge Roswaenge (t), Heinrich - concertos, ballets Carefully inspected for visible Tessmer (t), Gerhard Hüsch (bne), Wilhelm - pops, vocals imperfections, before mailing. Strienz (bs); Berlin Philh. Chorus and Orch.. Sir Thomas Beecham, cond. Victor LCI EDUCATION SERIES Dusted and cleaned to elimin- 61o1. Three 1z -in. 2 hr. q min. $17.16. ate possible dust damage, while - music appreciation in transit. - language courses OPERATIC EXCERPTS - readings from the classics Carefully packed to reach you in perfect condition. Long ago, Mozartians with a phonograph RELIGIOUS SERIES used to collect isolated disks from the operas sermons Mailed to you, anywhere in the in the hope that the parts would eventually - assemble to a synthetic whole. A Dar bible readings U. S. A. POST FREE. - Giovanni without the finales and recitative - organ music could be fitted together from 3o record - BEGINNING SEPTEMBER sides by nearly as many singers. The game NEW RELEASES FIRST, ALL RECORDS EN- developed a competitive snobbery, the col- CLOSED IN CELLOPHANE lectors tending to boast of their taste and No. 5008 through 5021 ENVELOPES, FOR ADDI- insight in having this Don Ottavio, that Music For Young Listeners TIONAL PROTECTION. Donna Elvira. A fancied perfection was de- Seven hours of all the music manded of vocalists in Mozart never re- discussed in Lillian Baldwin's We will gladly mail you a copy quired in other composers, a perfection widely read Green, Crimson, of the Schwann LP catalog .. . imagined from the storied glories of an and Blue Books. Includes 3 ABSOLUTELY FREE on re- inaudible past. LP does not offer the de- books. quest, and add your name to lights of the chase to the same extent, and our mailing list to receive it each the complete editions of Mozart's Big Five No. 5001 through No. 5004 month. (, Figaro, , CO. i and Evolution of the English The Magic Flute) contain superlative singing Language besides, all the LP's We will be glad to supply in- but that this writer could Commentary and readings on formation on any record of any locate exploiting at least one operatic ex- elementary, high school and cerpt have been examined for special il- speed ... American or European. college levels by Prof. Wil- lumination. Limitations of space compel liam Hull of Hofstra College cursory references, and several items are from Beowulf, Canterbury When ordering, simply enclose not mentioned because they are neither your check or money order to good nor bad enough to warrant comment Tales and Shakespeare. cover cost of records only ... or The ordination followed is haphazard, and No. 5022 through 5026 if you wish . . . we will ship is not supposed to indicate an order of merit. Spoken French them C.O.D. Victor LM 9010 is an operatic miscellam A new approach to language of admirable virtues, wherein Rise Stevens's learning made feasible by capable singing of Cherubino's two airs tape. Developed and read by from Figaro is the smallest attraction, her Professor Fernand Marty of vocal endowment too robust for the part. Ljuba Welitch in another miscellany, on Middlebury College. Columbia tat. 2118, brings her transfixing Write for -11)1(_1r intensity to a heroic exposition of Donna FREE CATALOG to -71I` Box Anna's two big airs in Don Giovanni. Hilde 279 Main Street Gueden sandwiches a strangely insensitive Tape Libraries, " Venite, inginocchiatevi" between a luscious A -V Inc. Great Barrington, Mass. "Ach, ich fad's" and a brilliant "L'amero" 730 Fifth Avenue to back her "Extultate, Jubilate" on London Now York 19. N. Y. is 681. Elisabeth Rethberg and Ezio Pinza,

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