[78-L] Ravel-Musorgskii....

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sat Nov 2 19:16:30 PDT 2013


My introduction was the Rodzinski recording, which was our first LP. Original 
pressing with the huge gap accidentally left before the start of The Great Gate 
at Kiev.

dl

On 11/2/2013 8:42 PM, Ted Kneebone wrote:
> One of the first classical albums I bought
> while a clerk in the record store was the
> Koussevitzky/Boston Symphony 78 version of
> Pictures.  I still like hearing the CD copy of
> that music.  My jobs were janitor, selling
> records, testing radio tubes:  stuff like that.
> My wage was 15c per hour; 2nd week the boss
> raised me to 20c an hour.  I was in the 8th grade.
>      I have several of the piano versions, too,
> but they don't 'turn me on' like the orchestral
> ones do.
>
> Ted Kneebone
> 1528 S. Grant Street
> Aberdeen, SD 57401
> Old Time Radio catalog...
> http://abe.midco.net/tkneebone3
>


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