Music: New Records, Nov. 1, 1948

For a while, it had looked as if James Caesar Petrillo and the record companies might kiss, make up and start turning out records again. But by last week the romance had cooled: Jimmy wanted too big a dowry from the record makers. All records now being released are either ten months old, imported, made secretly by anonymous musicians, or accompanied by choral groups, jew's-harps, kazoos, washboards and other instruments not considered musical by the Musicians' Union.

The following new classical albums are either imports or pre-ban recordings:

Berlioz: Requiem (Emile Passani Choir and...

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