Hartford Symphony Orchestra of Carl Orff’s "Carmina Burana". After hearing the piece for the first time, audiences jumped to their feet with standing ovations and the local papers overflowed with excellent reviews. On March 27, 1957 the Symphony recorded "Carmina Burana" on the Vanguard record label. Fritz Mahler continued the Hartford Symphony’s recording project with the Vanguard label, recording three new albums: Berlioz’s Requiem, Gustav Mahler’s Das Klagende Lied, and Bloch’s Three Jewish Poems for Orchestra and Copland’s Variations for Orchestra & Fanfare for the Common Man. The sixties opened with a general sense of uneasiness amongst the Hartford Symphony administration over the
The Big Bubble: Part Four of the Mole Trilogy The Big Bubble: Part Four of the Mole Trilogy The Big Bubble is an album by The Residents. It was released in 1985, and fleshed out the backstory of the band's "Mole Trilogy", which had been introduced in "Mark of the Mole" (1981) and "The Tunes of Two Cities" (1982). The official third part of the Mole Trilogy was never actually released, and neither were the projected fifth and sixth parts. The tour that accompanied the Mole storyline, documented in "" (1983), was a financial disaster. It had led to the virtual dissolution of the band, who were not keen