Switched-Off Bach

By HP-Time

It was a memorable moment for those happy few who still believe that man has a chance against the machine. Last week Switched-On Bach, one of the alltime classical bestsellers ($2,000,000 in sales), was finally dethroned after two years and 49 weeks in the No. 1 spot on Billboard's classical chart. SOB was originally brought to you by the same folks--Walter Carlos and Rachel Elkind--who set Beethoven and Purcell to the Moog synthesizer, or vice versa, in the film A Clockwork Orange. Switching Switched off into second place, the new champ: Mass by Leonard Bernstein (TIME. Sept. 20), which has sold 129,000 copies in less than two months.

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