The 'Carnegie Music Set', 1941.
Of course, since then the Carnegie Set has had to undergo sterner trials than those of the first night's admiration. It has come in for a great deal of work, and has revealed certain defects which, perhaps, only serve to make it more interesting, but generally speaking, it has proved of outstanding value to the school's musical education. The warmest tribute which could be paid to its utility is the eternal crowd which seeks to use the set in every spare moment, and the fact that very seldom is the House of Music free from the sound of one of the Carnegie records being played for the benefit of someone, who, before the advent of the Set, would never have dreamed of troubling himself for a little musical enjoyment. True, for some time the most popular records in the all-embracing collection of 640 were the Hill-Billy March and jazz, but this was a healthy beginning to a process of self introduction into the realms of really good music.