Judge — March 1935 — page 33: what you’re looking at

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The predecessor of this book, The Victrola Book of Rie the Opera, has been bought by 460,000 people. Weve Now comes this open sesame to symphonic music. GOOD NEWS FOR ALL WHO LOVE GREAT MUSIC! Cie the advent of radio broadcasting, the popular in- terest in symphonic music, the music of the masters, Beethoven, Wagner, Tschaikowski, Brahms, has grown by Icaps and bounds. In the past ten years a great demand has arisen for a book that would tell radio listeners about the great music that comes to them over the air. This demand is now met by this new book, written under the auspices of the R.C.A. Victor Company and with a fore- word by Leopold Stokowski. The actual editing and wri ing has been done by the head of the Music Recording Divi- sion, Charles O'Connell What This Book Brings To You In this book the reader will find, described in detail and in untechnical language, the 240 works most frequently heard over the radio and on the concert platform. Not only will he find all the symphonies of Beethoven and Brahms, the Wag- ner Overtures, the symphonic poems of Strauss, but also the lesser known works as well, the works of Deems Taylor, Strawinski, Shostakowitch, Debussy, Ravel and many others. An Encyclopedia of Symphonic Music The Victor Book of The Symphony also includes a short biog- raphy of each of the 73 composers whose works are de- scribed. There are Protoprephic portrait of the great mod- ern composers and conductors—Toscanini, Stokowski, Kous- sevitsky and others. ethaps the most valuable and important section of this complete book will be the description of the orchestra, the instruments uscd, how they operate, their range and their place and function in the orchestra itself with photographic illustrations. But we believe that to the great majority the lucid descrip- tions of the great body of symphonic compositions will be most welcome of all. These descriptions are written to be un- derstood. They are not “written down.” Nor are they high- brow. They are written with but one purpose in mind: to enable the listener to understand better, to love, and to en- joy more the great symphonic music that he hears. Special Introductory Offer This successor to The Victrola Book of The Opera has just come off the press. As an introduction, the publishers will send it on inspection to every music lover who wishes to see it with the understanding that itmay be returned within five days for a complete refund if it docs not live up to expectations. You are tobe the sole judge. Use the coupon for this purpose. Convenient order form with full money-back guarantee SIMON AND SCHUSTER, Publishers 373 386 Fourth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Of The Symphony. T will pay posta * with the understanding that lays. Meat the end of that time [am not in ever ‘d with it, I-may return it to you for a complete cash refund Tam to be sole judge in the matter. Please send me a copy of The Victor B fr Nawe " AporEss... City State “DD Check here if you would rather send cash of cheque. thereby saving postage costs comicbooks.com