I was intrigued to read in Miles Davis's autobiography that he, no doubt like other musicians, was glad about the shift from 78s to LPs in the early 1950s, because it began taking music beyond the 3-minute mark. In the case of jazz, this was good news as it made for more extended improvisations in recordings. I expect it must have also significantly changed the art of composition in jazz, pop, etc. -- at least insofar as recordings no longer needed to be so constrained. I expect it must have also meant a significant change in the length of contemporaneous CM composition -- certainly of works by those who hoped to see them recorded. But does it mean, though, that any classical movements or pieces of longer than three minutes' duration were previously broken up over several 78 rpm records? Also, can anyone on the List tell me when the first release of multi-LP albums, classical or otherwise, took place? I expect this would mean the first time a 2-LP album was released. Thanks in advance, Bert Bailey *********************************************** The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html