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...Scanner represented a major breakthrough for Springdale and Eastman Kodak engineers who labored jointly on the project for ten years. An electronic "computer," it automatically transmutes color transparencies (Kodachrome, Ektachrome, etc.) into four separate negatives (one for each color) from which engravings or lithographic plates are made for four-color printing. Other Springdale firsts include an aluminum-backed letterpress plate, an internal lockup plate cylinder, a high-speed bindery, and the "balanced light"illuminator...
...Elliott Cook Carter,* who, at 47, is just coming into his own: a recording of his String Quartet by the Walden Quartet is being released (by Columbia) in June; another of a suite from the music for his ballet The Minotaur, played by Howard Hanson and the Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra, has just been released (by Mercury); and the Louisville Orchestra this week recorded his imposing new Variations for Orchestra...
...Birthday of the Infanta, by Ron Nelson, 29, graduate student at Rochester's Eastman School of Music, and composer of promotional-film sound tracks. Following Oscar Wilde's story, a dwarf falls in love with a Spanish princess and persuades her to set up her throne in the forest. The scheme is frustrated by the captain of the guard, and tragedy closes in. The music reminded listeners of both Puccini and Menotti, and suggested that Birthday will have many happy returns...
...Rope, by Louis Mennini, 35, Eastman faculty member and brother of Manhattan Composer Peter Mennin. The plot is based on a one-act play by Eugene O'Neill. An old miser dangles a noose from a barn rafter, hoping his son will hang himself. Instead, the son decides to torture the miser into revealing his money's hiding place. Composer Mennini spent a summer learning the ins and outs of opera composition at Tanglewood, and used his knowledge well. The rub was the music; it seemed too charmingly melodious for the gruesome plot...
Beyond Belief, by Thomas Canning, 45, Eastman faculty member and composer of lots of gay, light music. This one is a fantastic satire of the atomic age and all its perils. A group of grey professors discovers the "key to consciousness," which permits knowledge of the past and future. The problem, complicated by young love, is whether to keep the discovery secret or turn it over to the authorities. Instrumentalists were seated in niches around the stage and played frothy music as the performers spoke and sang...