[78-L] From Frosty to Toscanini...

[Ted Kneebone]

There is no way I could mistake Beethoven's 7th for the "Eroica"!
Maybe when I get really old and lose my hearing I could mistake just about 
anything.
When I got my copy of the NPYSO/Toscanini on 78, I was using a record 
changer.  Those long silences at the beginnings really upset me.  I could 
not understand (at age 15) why those silences were there.  And none of the 
record reviews I read gave me a clue as to the reason.  I have just re-read 
David Hall's comments in both of the early "Record Books", and find no 
reference to the silences.
I recall my impression of this recording was one of wonder!  How could these 
78s sound so good?
They send me off into some kind of teenage bliss!

Ted Kneebone. 1528 S. Grant St., Aberdeen, SD 57401. Phone: 605-226-3344.
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