Word: disks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...used by Brahms for his famed Variations gets some plain and fancy going-over by one of Germany's most successful living composers. Boris Blacher uses a big orchestra in opulent style, with emphasis on suave clarinet murmurings, massed brasses in swing-band style and ingratiating melodies. The disk is Vol. I of Decca's New Directions in Music and Sound. Debussy: Pelleas and Mélisande (Janine Micheau, Camille Maurane; chorus and Lamoureux Orchestra conducted by Jean Fournet; Epic, 3 LPs). Maurice Maeterlinck's dewy drama of innocent love and death made luminous by Debussy...
...field outside Palo Alto, Calif, last week, a small metal doughnut, six feet across and two feet thick, bustled noisily into the air, then hovered seven feet off the ground. The pilot rode on a platform above the disk, protected by a pipe enclosure. The contraption had no wings, no visible helicopter blades. On display for the first time was the Flying Carpet, built by Hiller Helicopters for the Office of Naval Research...
...taken on its own terms, as evocation rather than description, it can have the misty morning grandeur of a mirage that stays. The Sun Is Never Alone presents a more complex image in almost equally simple terms. The red and black crescent shapes supporting the sun's molten disk through the dusk can be read as clouds, a bird, a fish, a sailboat, or all four combined...
...almost every week in the year. Records and tapes are played on Louisville's closed circuit and radio programs are also sent to the Voice of America, the BBC and European stations. LPs of the new music are pressed (by Columbia) for commercial release at $65 per twelve-disk set. If enough people subscribe, the record sales will gradually make the program self-sustaining. Current headache: only 300 subscriptions out of the necessary 1,000 came in last year...
...three weeks of confusion, brought on when RCA Victor chopped its LP prices by about a third (TIME, Jan. 10), the record industry has settled into a recognizable pattern. Six important labels (Capitol, Columbia, Decca, London, Mercury, MGM) are meeting Victor's prices of $3.98 a 12-inch disk, with exceptions for complete operas and other particularly expensive performances. Angel, Westminster, Vox and Cook all claim special qualities for their recordings, are hewing to the original $5.95 price line. Others have agreed on a $4.98 "suggested" price. Manhattan's Sam Goody's, the major record discount house...