Posted on 02/16/2009 10:38:46 PM PST by Cincinna
The man behind this musical time-capsule was Alfred Clark, a New Yorker who headed the London-based Gramophone Company and provided... the new flat disc records that it was promoting to compete with better known cylinder records... French officials also predicted radical changes in recording technology. So, in 1912, when they added 24 records and two more containers to the trove, they included a new hand-cranked gramophone, along with instructions on how it worked and a score of spare stylus needles. The 100 years were up more than a year ago and, after lengthy examination, cleaning and digitizing of the records, EMI, the heir to the Gramophone Company, is reissuing them in three CD's.Thanks Cincinna! Not too sure I wanna hear opera of any era though. Almost a GGG topic, BTW. :') If the week turns out to be a slow one, I will ping it, just watch me. ;')
OOOHHHH! We aren’t?!
thanks, site! I was only blessed with going to an opera once in my life...I love it!
I agree with you all the way.
‘Nixon in China’ is actually pretty well known for a contemporary opera.
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