Radio age research, manufacturing, communications, broadcasting, television (1941)

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Great Voices Brought to Life Priceless Recordings by the World's Outstanding Musical Artists have been Taken front RCA Victor Vaults. Skillfully Restored, and Made Arailablc to the Publu. ONE OF opera's most famovs quintets as it listened to its own RECORDING OF VERDl'S "THE QI'INTET". STANDING, LEFT TO RIGHT: LEON ROTHIER, ANDRES DE SEGUROLA. AND ENRICO CARUSO; SEATED: FRIEDA HEMPEL AND MARIA DICHENE. SELECTIONS FROM THE NEW "TREASURY" SERIES ARE PRESENTED TO DR. LUTHER II. EVANS. LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS. BY ROSA PONSELLE HKNTKRK MKS. KVHIl'n r \I!rS(> IIKFT). WD MI!S. .mUN MCCOR.MACK. By George R. Marek Director o/ Artists and Repertoire, Record Department, RCA Victor Division. PRICELESS master phonograph recordiiiKs. many of them stored for decades in KCA Victor's vaults at Camden. N. J., have once again been removed from their felt-lined envelopes and used to reproduce the music and voices of the world's greatest artists in a new twelve- album collection of historic records, titled "Treasury of Immortal Per- formances." Spanning the period from lOOJ to 1937, the Red Seal al- bums consist of 120 performances by 54 vocal and instrumental per- sonalities including Caruso, McCor- mack. Schumann-Heink. Farrar. Hori. Garden. Chaliapin, Ponselle, Rachmaninoff and Paderewski. Six additional albums of the new series are devoted to a historic col- lection of popular records, each representing a phase in the develop- ment of jazz, swing, blues and folk music in this country. Also avail- able in both 45- and .33-1/3-rpm records, they contain favorites by Russ Columbo, Hal Kemp, Glenn .Miller. Ted Weems, Tommy Dorsey, IJenny Goodman, Bing Crosby, I-'rank Sinatra, Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong. To commemorate the release of [RADIO AGE 9]