[78-L] How a Columbia Record is Made (silently)

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Thu Oct 7 07:48:30 PDT 2010


Maybe they were just making a lot of motion. Stravinsky's 20s recordings were 
made in Paris, not London, so this could just be for show.

dl

On 10/7/2010 10:35 AM, Christopher Steward wrote:
> Maybe the Dance of the Firebird - it's about the right speed (two in a bar in 6/8).
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> Chris
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> --- On Thu, 7/10/10, marimbamoods at comcast.net<marimbamoods at comcast.net>  wrote:
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> From: marimbamoods at comcast.net<marimbamoods at comcast.net>
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> Date: Thursday, 7 October, 2010, 15:20
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> probably not Infernal Dance, because the tempo / meter is a slow 2/4 in the video according to Igor's arm movements (not the meter of I D), and the xylophon part is not that of Infernal Dance, based on the percussionists arm movements. it should not be too difficult to pin down this selection; how many Stravinsky scores include three harps and xylophone, and are in a slow 2/4 meter?
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> david harvey


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