T h e most compelling reasori for the popularity of the CD is its sound quality. He arrival of the digital auclio Compact Disc on the Anierican market about a decade ago has caused a revolution in home-listening habits cornparable to the changeover from shellac 78s to vi~iylLPs during the 1950s, arid Srom mono to stereo in the 1960s. Lastly, 1 hi~inblythank those who, over the years, have bcen my best tcacllers-Joh11 Merrill, Leon I'lantinga.
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And to il.lrtsict~lA?~iericn, iny llome ti)r many years, I make gratef'i~lacknotvlcdgrnent of the free use of its photo archive. arid Ellen Schantz-I offer thanks for responding so cheerfully to the many recltiests for information ancl assistance this book occasionecl. hlarlisa hlonroe, hlarilyn Kgol, Philicia Gilbert, Sarah Folger. To my f'rieiirls in the recor-tl inclustry-particularly Ailnee Gautreau, Albert Imperato, Susan Schif'fcr. lvhat has sustainetl me in thc writing of this book has been their enthusiasm, and that clf listeners from Alaska to Florida.
and senior producers Hen Roe a n d Don Lce. I am gratef'ul as well to many friends for ,especially those on the staff of Perfonnunce Today, including host hlartin (~oltlsmith.p r o t l ~ ~ c Laul-a cr Bertrarl. bly thanks are also d u e to Anita Dickhuth, tvho did a splendid job with photo research, to Lisa Sloane, who presided so skillf'ully over the book's design, and to hlildred Camacho Richardson and Ken Richardson-Mildred for keying much of the original manuscript, Ken for fact-checking and copy-editing the ni ~nuscriptand for providing many lielpl'~11suggestioris along the way. and Kathy Ryan, her highly resourcel'i~lassistant. I begin with Ruth Sullivan, my editor at Workman, who has earned my respect and devotion with her insistence on quality. \ilrhile the readcr may wince at the list of names that follows, it is precisely because this multitude is so splendid that I wish to thank each one for the assistaricc I have received in writing this book. N his preface to The Pntll to Rome, Hilaire Belloc makes light of the authorial duty of acknowledgment, assuring his reader that his avoidance of' it "is but on account of the multitude ancl splendour of' those who have attended at the production of this volume." T h e present writer differs. Spccial ctli~ionscall be crcilt c d to specificat i o I.~ For clcr ~ils,rolltact rhc Spccial S llcs Director ar [ I I ~addrvss below. \\'orkn~:lrlI~ooks lr.e a\ ~ilabie I[ sl~ccialcliscour~ts\vller~pu~.chasetli l l bulk Solprclniums a n d sales ~ ~ r o n i o t i o as n s \\fell IS 111- I'undri~isingo r ccI~lcation ~l use. I,il)l~cv,Tccl 195 l T h e NPR ( i~iclero 13uilcIing I (:lassic ~l ( 3 ) C:ollertion / 11) l'cd Lil~l~ey. any orller nrc lns, irlcltrtling ~~l~orocop~~i~rg-t\~i~lout t\,ritten ~ x r ~ ~ ~ i s of s i othe t r ~)ublisher.I'ublisl~c~tl siml~lt ~neously i l l Can ltla by e l ' h o ~ l ~.Allell as & Son 12ill~itcd. No portion ol' !his I)ook may l)c rcprocl~~cccl-r~~cclia~~ic ~Ily, c*lrctro~iic ~lly.
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