[78-L] Subject: Re: Subject: Re: Collecting vs. 'Investing'

[Michael Biel]

From: estott at localnet.com
> There were generally two record columns in hobbies.
> Aida Favia-Artsay wrote on Opera, Jim Walsh wrote on
> performers like Billy Murray and Frank Crummit.  Eric Stott

There were other record columnists as well.  I think it was Stephen
Fassett who preceeded Aida doing opera and classical.  (And I am
purposefully ignoring Lou Dumont who did a radio column in Walsh's last
years and after because it was totally worthless.  He had no
discographical info at all to give, he just printed transcripts of
commonly available tapes of radio programs.)  

I was going to mention Aida Favia-Artsay in my earlier posting about
gender collecting but didn't in that context because she had mentioned
in her column that she was occasionally looked down upon condescendingly
by male collectors.  She related a time when a group of male "experts"
were playing the early European recordings of Bjorling and were playing
them much too fast since they had been recorded in the lower 70s.  No,
little girl, they seemed to say, that is how he sounded when he was
younger.   

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  



 
 Quoting Malcolm Smith <malcolms at redshift.com>:
 
 > Curious seeing reference to Hobbies magazine. Unless my memory is
 > wrong, the articles that used to appear in it to do with record
 > collecting were by Aida Artsay. I apologize if I've spelled it
 > incorrectly. I recall visiting her at her home. She had quite a
 > collection of, yes, records.
 >
 > Malcolm Smith.