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the Russian composer Rachmaninoff.
There weren’t any cassettes, CD’s or DVD’s in those day, music was
recorded on large circular plastic disks ‘records’ and packaged in a ‘sleeve’
– which is a kind of protective envelope – with a picture printed on the front
which often relates to the music inside.
Much to my delight, as I browsed through the records I found a collector’s
item, a Rachmaninov symphony, not one of his piano concertos, but a
symphony! I didn’t have time to test listen to the record in the shop so I just
paid for it, packed it in my bag ready to leave for home the following
morning.
It wasn’t until the following Saturday that I had a chance to play the record.
I put the record on and settled down to listen and in doing so I paid attention
for the first time to the picture on the cover of the record.
The picture that took the shape of an arch inside a very high building struck
There weren’t any cassettes, CD’s or DVD’s in those day, music was
recorded on large circular plastic disks ‘records’ and packaged in a ‘sleeve’
– which is a kind of protective envelope – with a picture printed on the front
which often relates to the music inside.
Much to my delight, as I browsed through the records I found a collector’s
item, a Rachmaninov symphony, not one of his piano concertos, but a
symphony! I didn’t have time to test listen to the record in the shop so I just
paid for it, packed it in my bag ready to leave for home the following
morning.
It wasn’t until the following Saturday that I had a chance to play the record.
I put the record on and settled down to listen and in doing so I paid attention
for the first time to the picture on the cover of the record.
The picture that took the shape of an arch inside a very high building struck