http://tags.library.upenn.edu/tag/phonograph+nbc_symphony_orchestra PennTags Feed http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/7395 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/voyager/7395 <div class="mlacite">Horowitz, Joseph, 1948- . <span style="text-decoration: underline">Classical music in America : a history of its rise and fall / Joseph Horowitz. </span> [0393057178 (hardcover) ] New York : W.W. Norton &amp; Co., c2005. <br />Call#: Van Pelt Library ML200 .H797 2005</div><p><br /> B. H. Haggin's <em>Book of the Symphony</em> (1937) came packaged with a rule to measure the distance from the outer groove of a record, ex. &quot;the development section of the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth start[s] at 2 7/16 inches as recorded by Koussevitzky and the London Philharmonic.&quot; (407)</p><p>Horowitz says, &quot;In fact, the symphony exists in score - every recording is precisely an interpretation, and as such privileges the culture of performance.&quot; (408)&nbsp;</p><p>Victor produced <em>The Victor Book of the Symphony, The Victor Book of Concertos, The Victor Book of the Opera, What We Hear in Music, Music and Romance, Form in Music, </em>and<em> Music Appreiciation for Children. </em>Curriculum favored symphony, short list of German, French, Italian and Russian composers. Exclusion of contemporary music, American composers, jazz.&nbsp; Spotlight on RCA performers. (405) <br /></p>