{"id":5451,"date":"2018-10-05T18:17:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T08:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=5451"},"modified":"2018-10-05T18:23:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T08:23:33","slug":"gramophone-no-substitute-for-live-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=5451","title":{"rendered":"Gramophone: no substitute for live performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tBritish conductor Thomas Beecham was not too impressed with early recording technology (the gramophone):\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div 40px=\"\" margin-left:=\"\" style=\"\">\n\t\tIt was put to him that for people who lived in remote districts, far from orchestral concerts, the gramophone was an alternative:<br \/>\n\t\t&quot;It is no alternative to this,&quot; he said, waving his arm towards the hall, where the orchestra was waiting for him.&nbsp; &quot;if people cannot get decent musical food, that is no reason why you should give them poison.&nbsp; Rather, than wireless or a gramophone, take prussic acid at once.&quot;\n\t<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n\t<br \/>\n\tIncidentally, Beecham had actually made recordings before and after the period of this statement.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em><span font-style:=\"\" italic=\"\" style=\"\">The Musical Times<\/span>,<\/em> January 1927.&nbsp; Cited in: Scholes, Percy (1947) <span font-style:=\"\" italic=\"\" style=\"\"><em>The Mirror of Music: 1844-1944.<\/em>&nbsp; <\/span>London: Novello, p. 791.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British conductor Thomas Beecham was not too impressed with early recording technology (the gramophone): It was put to him that for people who lived in remote districts, far from orchestral concerts, the gramophone was an alternative: &quot;It is no alternative to this,&quot; he said, waving his arm towards the hall, where the orchestra was waiting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1442,859,861],"class_list":["post-5451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performers-and-performances","tag-gramophone","tag-recording","tag-thomas-beecham"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5451"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5457,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451\/revisions\/5457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}