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MARIA CALLAS (Angel 3502, 3508). Bellini's 1 Puritani and Puccini's Tosca: the Greek-American soprano in her prime...
Thus LP collectors are faced with the imminent disappearance of many fine mono recordings made between 1948, when the LP was first introduced, and 1958, when stereo was born. Some items may appear again on reissue lines, such as Angel's Great Recordings of the Century. But most will not. Nor does electronic rechanneling of the old recording into stereo solve the problem. "To put it bluntly, electronic stereo is presently nothing but sonic vandalism, a fact recognized and even privately admitted by the record companies themselves," says High Fidelity magazine.* Thus wise collectors are buying up the choice...
...Manhattan's Central Park, across Fifth Avenue from Jacqueline Kennedy's apartment,* a 42-year-old stock clerk named Angel Angelof waited inside a women's public lavatory. When Lilah Kistler, 24, a Pennsylvania physician's daughter who earned $80 a week walking dogs in the park, tied a Hungarian puli to the fence outside and walked into the lavatory, Angelof killed her with one shot from his bone-handled .45-cal. revolver...
WALTON: THE BEAR (Angel). British Composer William Walton premiered this one-act gem only a year ago. He was fortunate in finding an excellent librettist (an increasingly rare breed of writer) named Paul Dehn, who based his freewheeling lyrics on Chekhov's farce. Walton's eclectic styles are more than equal to the idiotic but entertaining plot about Popova, a widow who so enrages a creditor that he challenges her to a duel, but they suffer the fate of operatic lightning-love and fall into each other's arms. The work is laced with musical and verbal...
...perfect face for radio." She is also the one who gushes too much, as in her introduction of Guest Muriel Humphrey: "You're so beautiful it's ridiculous! It looks like you were hired by central casting!" She can be alternately flip and flibbertigibbet but generally plays angel's advocate...