[78-L] Paddy, SVR, pounder...was non-opera classical

[Joe Salerno]

Actually, it was Rachmaninoff, not Paddy, that Edison labeled as a 
pounder, altho even that story is unlikely. The guy who told it (forget 
his name) didn't even work for Edison at the time, ca. 1919 when SVR 
made his first series of records for TAE DDs.

I don't think Paddy was a pounder either, listen to his late acoustic of 
his own Nocturne in Bb. Gorgeous delicate sounds. Anything but pounding.

Joe Salerno

On 3/22/2015 1:23 AM, david.diehl at hensteeth.com.invalid wrote:
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> Cheesh! Jamming up the airwaves with that piano pounder Paderewski. Edison was SO right...for once.
> BTW Norvo said that when Benny asked him to join him he had to start exercising his wrists. Goodman played so much uptempo stuff that even a veteran like him would have trouble keeping up over the long haul.
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> Opera and Baseball are very much alike; 45 minutes of heart-pounding actioncrammed into only three and a half hours. Sometimes it gets strenuous. Ilisten to both on the radio and sometimes it's a tough choice, but there wasno Lions game today because it is spring break so I heard Manon from theMet.Listening to opera on 78s is a lot like the sports wrap up on the late news- all the home runs and triple plays boiled down to four minutes, which isideally suited to my attention span anyway.Non-opera classical? Today on the Collector's Corner portion of myotherwise-loosely-formatted "big band" show I played Paderewski andKreisler. Nobody complained - yet.RodgerFor best results use Victor Needles-----Original Message-----From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com[mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Kristjan SaagSent: Friday, March 20, 2015 1:48 PMTo: 78-L Mail ListSubject: Re: [78-L] ...and what about non-opera classical?Yeah, serves to separate it from A Shakes
>   peare Play where the stabbed guystarts reciting verses.KristjanOn 2015-03-20 19:38, Julian Vein wrote:>> On 20/03/15 14:03, Joe Salerno wrote:>>>> I regard opera as the prior day equivalent of a motion picture. Singing,>> dancing, drama, comedy, lighting, fights, loving, intrigue, good guys,>> bad guys, music....only dif is that opera is live, when presented that>> way. A recording brings it even closer to a film.>>>>>> Joe Salerno> ==============> Definition of opera: It's when a guy gets stabbed in the back, and> instead of dying starts singing!>> Julian Vein>> _______________________________________________> 78-L mailing list> 78-L at klickitat.78online.com> http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l>_______________________________________________78-L mailing list78-L at klickitat.78online.comhttp://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l
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