Phonograph Monthly Review, Vol. 2, No. 1 (1927-10)

PHONOGRAPH E AXEL B. JOHNSON, Managing Editor Published by THE PHONOGRAPH PUBLISHING CO., Inc. General Offices and Studio: 64 Hyde Park Avenue, Boston, Mass. Telephone Jamaica 5054 Cable Address: “Phono” All communications should be addressed to the Managing Editor at the Studio, 64 Hyde Park Ave., Boston, Mass. All unsolicited contributions must be accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped en- velope. THE PHONOGRAPH MONTHLY REVIEW appears on the twenty-eighth of each month. All material is fully protected by copy- right and may be reproduced only by permission. All checks and money orders should be made out to THE PHONO- GRAPH PUBLISHING CO., Inc. Yearly subscription price $4.00 in the United States and $5.00 in Canada and other foreign countries, postage prepaid. Single copies 35 cents. Advertising rates upon application. All advertisements for the MART COLUMN must be accompanied by remittances in tull; lor rates see under MART COLUMN. Subscription and advertising agents given liberal commission. Write for particulars. E LSEWHERE in this Anniversary Number, marking the event of the magazine’s first birthday, will be found several contribu- tions from some of its first friends and support- ers. I wish to express my most sincere apprecia- tion to these old friends for their constant faith in the publication and for their untiring efforts on its behalf. To all the other contributors and readers who have given us such splendid assis- tance and encouragement during the past year, equal thanks are due, and I trust that they will all be with us during the coming months and years of our expansion and progression. For no matter how large the publication and its lists of readers may grow, or what developments are made, the warmest feeling will always be reserved for the inner nucleus of American enthusiasts, the group which The Phonograph Monthly Review had the privilege of drawing together during its pio- neer days. In our welcome to new friends, we shall never forget the old and all that we owe to them. With this first issue in our second volume, a few slight changes in the arrangement are be- ing made, and others are under consideration. A certain amount of experimentation is of course necessary to obtain the most generally satisfac- tory make-up to suit the gradually changing wishes of the majority of our readers. We are planning many new developments and features, and there is so much to demand and exhaust all our attention cmd energies that nine days to the week would be all too short for our needs! T HE European releases of last month do not contain as many major works as one might expect from the season of the year .. The Columbia Company brings out the most ambitious work, a complete electrical Pagliacci recording, in twelve ten-inch records, by the British Nation- al Opera Company, conducted by Eugene Goos- sens, Sr. Also on the Columbia list is a new Dance Macabre by Sir Henry Wood, the Purcell Wood Trumpet Voluntary and Davies’ Solemn Melody by Sir Hamilton Harty, and the Tann- hauser Venusberg Music by Bruno Walter, re- leased some time ago in this country. Dame Clara, Butt sings Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory with a large Community Chorus, and there are operatic arias sung by Georges Thill, Ales- sandro Bond, and Eva Turner. It should also be mentioned that the great comedy hit of the year, Two Black Crows, is now released in Great Brit- ain also , where undoubtedly its reception will be no less warm than here. From the Parlophone Company comes a four- part L’Arlesienne Suite No. 1, and a two-part Raymond Overture, both by the Grand Symphony Orchestra conducted by the modernist composer, Franz Schreker. Emmy Bettendorf records Schu- mann’s song-cycle, Frauenliebe und Leben, com- plete, on three records, and Meta Seinemeyer is heard in two arias from La Forza del Destino accompanied by the Berlin State Opera House Chorus and Orchestra. An unusually large num- ber of American jazz recordings are re-pressed See last pag,e for Table of Contents Copyright, 1927, by the Phonograph Publishing Company, Inc.