When I originally went to interview Cas for my History of Recording documentary I actually spent the entire morning there and ended up with almost two hours of interview material of which I only got to use about 3 minutes worth in the documentary itself. So I picked out some other interesting portions of the interview that didn’t make it into the documentary for everyone to listen to.
This first clip is the full introduction segment:
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Next is the story of how the term Hi-Fi for High Fidelity came to be:
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This is the story of his favorite recording and how he came to do personal recordings of Rosa Ponselle singing after she retired in Baltimore:
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A short clip on the original mechanical Victrolas as well as the first of two records in their entirety:
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A clip on the quality of recordings and records during WWII, and the full recording of Enrico Caruso from 1919:
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A clip on the origin of stereo and how stereo records work as well as the introduction of LPs:
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And finally, the full conductors introduction to the first LP edition of Handel’s Messiah.
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