[Jenn[_3_]]

In article ,
"Arny Krueger" wrote:

"Jenn" wrote in message

In article ,
"Arny Krueger" wrote:

"Jenn" wrote in message


I had a gig up in Palo Alto yesterday, so I stopped by
my favorite Northern CA LP and stereo shop, The Analog
Room
in San Jose.

LP Bigotry noted.

Yep. On that trip I was also a Macy's bigot, a Foster
Freeze bigot, a some-little-independent-gas-station-in-Palo-Alto bigot,
and a restroom at a rest stop on 101 bigot.

Oh Jenn, so you spend a day shopping and many $$$ every time you go to the
john on 101?

I don't think so!

I go to establishments that carry what I want or what I need. To you,
that is bigotry. Others call it "shopping".


So many new LPs on display, I could have
spent a bloody fortune.

You could have even had CDs if you did your homework,
Jenn.

Not at that store.

Doooh!

I wasn't shopping for CDs. Therefore I didn't need to go to a store
that carried CDs.



I settled on 6, new and used:

New:
Stacey Kent: Dreamsville Candid Records

I know that I'm not supposed to know about these things
because I'm an "ivory tower professor" at a "rural
community college", but this is GREAT female jazz vocal
singing. And the recording is simply marvelous, in a
"singer and combo is in the room with you" kind of way.
Very highly recommended.

Available on CD since no later than 2002

Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale and smaller works
Speaker's Corner/Mercury

Available on CD since no later than 1991

Mendelssohn and Prokofiev Violin Concerti
Heifetz/Munch/BSO
Classic Records/RCA

Available on CD since no later than1991

Prokofiev Lt. Kije and Stravinsky Nightingale (again)
Classic Records/RCA

Origional RCA recording in 1957, numerous reissues on CD
including one by JVC in 2005.

Respighi The Birds Dorati/LSO
Speaker's Corner/Mercury

Reissued as a CD on the Universal Classics label

Kodaly and Bartok works Mercury Dorati/Philharmonia
Hungarica

Available on CD since no later than 1990.

Berlioz Harold in Italy Munch/BSO

Available on both CD and SACD.

I have all of those CDs, save the Kent and the Respighi.

That only makes the case for your LP bigotry stronger, Jenn.

You obviously did not buy the LPs for the love of the music, because you
already have recordings of the music.

It is a clear cut case of LP bigotry.

I wanted to try for better sound than the CDs offered. In all cases but
one, I found it.