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In Reply to: Yes - I'm very excited about this! posted by Chris from Lafayette on April 23, 2021 at 12:11:17:
This was the era of the one-microphone Mercury technique. Unique, I think, and the beginning of a very easily recognized Mercury sound. That sound endured into their three microphone stereo period even though others used three mikes as well. The Mercurys always sounded, and still sound, like . . . Mercurys.
As for Kubelik in Chicago, Wikipedia says:
In 1950, Kubelík became music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, choosing the position over an offer from the BBC to succeed Sir Adrian Boult as chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra.[5] He left the post in 1953. Some hold that he was "hounded out of the [Chicago] job" (to quote Time magazine) by the "savage attacks" (to quote the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians) of the Chicago Tribune music critic Claudia Cassidy.[6] But Chicago Sun-Times music critic Robert C. Marsh argued in 1972 that it was the Chicago Symphony trustees who were behind the departure. Their foremost complaint, and that of Cassidy as well, was that Kubelík introduced too many contemporary works (about 70) to the orchestra; there were also objections to his demanding exhaustive rehearsals and engaging several black artists.[1] Many recordings made by Kubelík in Chicago for Mercury Records are available on CD, and have received critical praise.[7]
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- RE: Yes - I'm very excited about this! - Mel 13:03:16 04/23/21 (1)
- Yes - tinear posted that same Wikipedia quote from RCM recently - Chris from Lafayette 15:31:09 04/23/21 (0)
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