THE LP
"I don't know how we ever did with out the LP," says Composer Roy Harris. "It is to music what the printing press was to literature."
Comparing the influence of the long-playing record to Gutenberg is not as far fetched as it sounds. When they were first put out in 1948, LP records seemed to offer only an assortment of mechanical advantages: economy, convenience, less surface hiss. Like the 78 r.p.m., though, the LP at first was still just that a record, a means of preserving for posterity some of the...
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