[78-L] columbia history of music

[David Lennick]

If the price is right, why not? I can't say that I play anything from those 
sets too frequently, but there were some interesting performances in it by Myra 
Hess, Sir Hamilton Harty as pianist (duetting with Myra in fact) and 
conducting, Bartok playing the piano, the Lener Quartet, Harold Samuel, Harold 
Draper, Harriet Cohen, a bit of Varese even. Not exactly chopped liver although 
the first volume probably is in the old "we gotta make this 13th century crap 
palatable for the unwashed modern masses of 1930" style. I'm only seeing five 
volumes in the catalogue and in WERM.

Hope your hand is okay soon.

dl

Tom Hood wrote:
> hi all
> I have just been offered a 6 volume set of 10" English Columbia 78s called 
> the history of music.it was intended for schools.I do not have the discs yet 
> but have been told some of the titles and artists.they appear to be mostly 
> second or third string performers with a few exceptions.each album has 8 
> discs.I have never heard of the series.can anyone out there shed any 
> additional information on it?
> tom hood 
> (who has had surgery on his right hand and cannot do key shifts...as you can 
> see!)