Phonograph Monthly Review, Vol. 4, No. 1 (1929-10)

4 The Phonograph Monthly Review October, 1929 first. Owing to their extensive nature the cost will be $2.00 for the group of three, or $1.00 apiece if bought separately. As only a limited number will be printed, it is advisable that those wishing the indices send in their orders early. As announced last month each index consists of a group of detailed indices covering general articles, contributors (even to the correspondence col- umns), illustrations, records, special lists of re- cords, and recording artists. The indices to the entire three volumns constitute an actual cyclo- pedia of phonographic information of inestimable value to every record collector. The scope is of surprising extensiveness, and we ourselves were astonished at the amount of information The Phonograph Monthly Review has succeeded in concentrating into the thirty-six issues covered by these indices. Another bit of very good news is that the ex- cellent Odeon records have now been made easily available to many music lovers who have experi- enced difficulty in obtaining them. The well- known firm of Jordan Marsh and Company of Boston has put the full Odeon line in its phono- graph department and is ready to fill mail orders for records and requests for Odeon catalogues and supplements. THE KEY TO THE PHONOGRAPH MONTHLY REVIEW Indices to Volumes I, II, and III (October 1926 to September 1929) Compiled by Rev. Herbert B. Satcher Founder and President of the Cheltenham Phonograph Society We will now accept orders for delivery not later than November 1st. Price: $2.00 for the set of three indices; $1.00 apiece if purchased separately. Phonograph Publishing Co., Inc . 47 Hampstead Road Jamaica Plain, Mass. The Musical Ladder By ROBERT DONALDSON DARRELL (Continued from the last issue) A RTIST’S Life recordings: by Willem Men- gelberg (Brunswick 50096—with Tales from the Vienna Woods), Dajos Bela’s Orchestra (Odeon 3235—with Southern Roses), Strauss’ Orchestra (British Columbia 9280 with Tales from the Vienna Woods), and m a piano arrangement by Karol Szreter (Parlophone E-10769—with Fledermaus Waltz). Voices of Spring is out in a good performance by Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony (Vic- tor 6903—with Vienna Blood), in a two-part piano arrangement by Karol Szreter (Odeon 3216), and by Strauss’ Orchestra (Columbia 50054-D—with Enjoy Your Life.) Sticking fairly closely to the disks issued in this country, my list might be wound up with the following miscellany: Viennese Bonbons and swallows from Austria by Lorand’s Orchestra (Odeon 3513), a two-part version of Swallows from Austria by Bodanzky and the Berlin State Orchestra (Parlophone P-9833), When the Lem- ons Bloom by Strauss’ Orchestra (Columbia 50143-D—with Woman’s Heart Polka-Mazurka), a two-part version of Danube Maiden by Knap- pertsbusch and the Berlin State Orchestra (Vic- tor V-50008—German list), Thousand and One Nights and Enjoy Your Life by Strauss’ Orches- tra (British Columbia 9226), Marienklange and Ecstacy by Dajos Bela’s Orchestra (Odeon 3245), One Lives But Once in a two-part piano version by Rachmaninoff (Victor 6636), Music of the Spheres in a two-part version by Bodanzky and the Berlin State Orchestra for Parlophone. I should also mention Grunfeldt’s Soiree de Vienne, a medley of Strauss waltz airs, in a two-part piano version by Karol Szreter (Odeon 3208). Other Waltzes Again the European orchestras and record manufacturers furnish a large proportion of the finest works, but an increasingly larger number is being made here and of course many of the