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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MENDELSSOHN: ELIJAH (Angel). In a superb recording, Sir Malcolm Sargent conducts the Royal Society Orchestra in highlights only, but the cuts are not really missed: Sir Malcolm wisely opts for the graceful Mendelssohnian airs; Soprano Elizabeth Harwood gives a limpid account of "Hear ye. Israel"; John Shirley-Quick delivers "Is not his word like a fire" in an opulent basso style. The only low points, in fact, are the hammer-heavy choruses, which remind the listener that this florid form was not really suited to the urbane Mendelssohn, and that when he essayed heroism he often made only noise...
...almost everyone has been put through Julius Caesar as a high-school sophomore and been forced to commit some of its speeches to memory. For all its familiarity the play remains, like Beethoven's Fifth, a rattling good work; and no one should shrink from mounting it on that account...
...General Telephone & Electronics (6,600,000 telephones) now controls 30 operating U.S. companies, and its Automatic Electric Co. is the largest supplier of equipment to independent companies. Telephone operations account for 45% of General's $2 billion revenues and 63% of its profit, and President Leslie H. Warner intends to broaden that end of the business even more...
...Grant's business is now located. Similarly, Grant's merchandise has been upgraded from the 25? items that it was founded to sell. The stores now offer everything from major appliances to furniture and, unlike Grant's early-day, cash-and-carry policy, credit purchases now account for 25% of sales...
Died. Zinaida Pasternak, 69, second wife of the late Boris Pasternak, who married the author in the early 1930s, and may or may not (no one will say) have had access to the rich Swiss bank account set up for Pasternak's heirs by the Italian publisher of Doctor Zhivago; of cancer; in Moscow...