Word: instrumentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful." Thus Pablo Casals once described his cello, an instrument he played with unmatched intelligence, mastery and passion. The analogy to a love affair was apt, for Cellist Casals gave himself to his favorite music (Bach, Mozart) with the sort of evident personal dedication which, as much as his skill, won the world's reverent respect. Last week admirers by the thousands were gathering to honor him at the annual Casals Festival, this year being held in San Juan, Puerto Rico...
...still burning, its own telemetering equipment sent radio reports to earth, but when the fuel was gone and the rocket had climbed above most of the atmosphere, its main transmitter piped down. An automatic device took charge, poked a retractable antenna into the near vacuum, and told the instruments in the can to go on the air. The satellite transmitter took over and reported in code the readings of the satellite instruments, including such space esoterica as the impacts of primary cosmic rays and micrometeorites. It will take a long time to evaluate the data, but the instrument setup appears...
This remarkable performance must be charged, more or less, to British Cartoonist Gerard Hoffnung, who for years has been satirizing the music business. In his cartoons, tubby Artist Hoffnung has created a wonderfully zany world-the bass fiddler peers from behind his instrument through a periscope; an old huge-wheeled bicycle becomes a harp; the phrenetic maestro sharpens his baton with a pencil sharpener. Purpose of the Hoffnung concert (recorded at London's Royal Festival Hall with a full symphony orchestra and some of Britain's leading musicians) was to translate the cartoons into sound. The result...
...screen Pianist Carroll H. LeFavor leads two pupils up and down the scales. In 4,000 Illinois homes children follow LeFavor's fingering through the half-hour lessons. Most attractive feature of the lessons, to parents and neighbors: the home course, sold for $1 by a local instrument firm, includes a cardboard keyboard guaranteed to guard against resounding wrong notes...
...TRAFFIC PLAN is being worked put in Washington. CAA ground stations will soon start controlling all instrument flights above 24,000 ft., by Jan. 1 expect to begin controlling altitudes above...