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...flaw is a 72-bar cut in the recapitulation of the first movement. Though the cut was sanctioned by the composer, it would have been preferable to present the work whole, since the concerto surely will not be recorded again soon. This aside, the performance is definitive; and the disk, filled out with Cordero's Eight Miniatures for Small Orchestra, won for Allen the Koussevitzky Recording Award from an international jury. But outlets for Allen's dazzling abilities will depend on the colorblindness of concert managers and audiences...
Truth was not Schrader's goal, however. He tried to create a tense, sexual rhythm of color and sound, the lust of America pressed to a video disk. But he directs with the subtlety of Bo Derek disrobed, surrounding Julian with red-colored objects and shadowy bars, trapping him in a bloody, infernally chic hell...
...shape and pulls off large amounts of gases. As the particles of gas spiral inward, or biting the black hole in ever tighter circles before entering the event horizon, they collide, compress and heat up. Temperatures within this so-called accretion disk of gases surrounding the black hole reach 10 million degrees C, sending streams of intense X rays into space...
...coronograph is designed to create an artificial solar eclipse, thereby permitting observation of the ultraviolet rays of the corona, the portion of the sun's atmosphere which extends well beyond the visible disk...
...Peter Carl Goldmark, 71, Hungarian-born electronic whiz and inventor of the 33% r.p.m. long-playing record; in an automobile accident; in Westchester County, N.Y. President of CBS Laboratories for 17 years, Goldmark also developed the video cassette for recording TV images on tape, and the so-called rotating-disk system for color TV. While the disk device failed by a whisker to win F.C.C. approval as the standard U.S. TV system, it was later used to send the first color images from the moon. Said Goldmark, who preferred practical applications to ivory-tower theorizing: "An inventive idea without development...