This Living Stereo Shaded Dog pressing has a great side two. As I’m sure you’ve found, many vintage pressings are dull and opaque. This one has tonally correct strings, as well as the top end and rosiny texture that’s so often missing. 

Wikipedia on Morton Gould

His ability to seamlessly combine multiple musical genres into formal classical structure, while maintaining their distinctive elements, was unsurpassed, and Gould received three commissions for the United States Bicentennial.

As a conductor, Gould led all of the major American orchestras as well as those of Canada, Mexico, Europe, Japan, and Australia. With his orchestra, he recorded music of many classical standards, including Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” on which he also played the piano. He won a Grammy Award in 1966 for his recording of Charles Ives’ first symphony, with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

In 1995, Gould was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music for Stringmusic, a composition commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra in recognition of the final season of director Mstislav Rostropovich. In 2005, he was honored with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He also was a member of the board of the American Symphony Orchestra League and of the National Endowment for the Arts music panel.