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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...named Callas Who never did play the old Palace -but if she had, she could scarcely have put on a better vaudeville act than she and some of her colleagues did last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. It began, more or less, during a matinee of Lucia di Lammermoor which was broad cast from coast to coast. Often Callas sang superbly, notably in the famous mad scene, but sometimes she sounded as shrill as static, and during her second-act duet with Baritone Enzo Sordello she dropped her highest note like a hot knife, while Baritone Sordello held...
...expert who never lost faith in Spina was Dr. Nereo Alfieri, director of the Museo di Spina in Ferrara. Dr. Alfieri had won a great reputation by finding ruins known only by legend. (Once he found a Roman temple by asking shepherds the way to a "shrine.") He was sure that sometime, somehow, he would find Spina. Last week he could report results...
Rossini: Sonatas for Strings (Solisti di Zagreb; Vanguard). Teen-age instrumental works by one of the world's most brilliant vocal composers. His irresistible melody is already bubbling, and there is hardly a note that does not solace the ear. The style is as neat, light and humorous as Rossini's later coloratura arias...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Lucia di Lammermoor, with Maria Callas. Sordello, Campora...
Scientists at Barnes Engineering Co. have developed an automated lathe that obediently turns out a variety of parts by following the coded instructions printed on a tape, which in turn direct a servomechanism system. Says International Business Machines' Di rector of Applied Science Dr. Cuthbert C. Kurd: "If we don't have min iaturization, we'd soon have plants measuring ten miles by ten miles...