ABSTRACT
British recording industry executive, born in Islington, London. He and his brother went into the importing business, and evidently included talking machines among their stock. In 1898 he became associated with William Barry Owen, who was establishing the Berliner interests in London in what was to be the Gramophone Co. When that firm took over the International Zonophone Co. of Berlin in 1903, Birnbaum was made director there. Birnbaum became managing director of the Gramophone Co. in April 1904, remaining with the organization until 1910, when he returned to the import business. He was designer of the Gramophone angel trademark. [Martland 1989.]
BIS (label). Begun in 1973, in Sweden, by Robert von Bahr, who served as owner, producer, and chief engineer, BIS has earned a reputation as a company that produces recordings of very high technical and artistic quality. BIS specializes in both mainstream composers and more obscure ones, such as Aagesen, Hashimoto, Orban, Tubin, Tomasson, and Zechner. Unlike what one finds with some other companies, every recording BIS has produced remains available. [Website: https://www.bis.se./]
HOWARD FERSTLER
The plastic material from which a commercial disc is pressed. See also Disc
Bishop has been engineering award-winning recordings since the 1970s. He was awarded the 1997 Grammy award for best-engineered classical recording, received two Grammy
nominations in 1999, and again for 2000 in the same category, and is a member of AES, MPGA, NARAS, ASCAP, AQHA, and NRHA. As part of the engineering and production team at Telarc Records, he has overseen many major orchestral, jazz, blues, and pop recordings. Having worked on pop quadraphonic mixes in the early 1970s, he has applied that early experience to produce some of Telarc’s most notable surroundsound releases. He currently lives in Burton, Ohio, with his wife, country music singer Wendy Bishop, and their two daughters.
