Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ideas. Says he: "I've been on the stage professionally for 18 years, and developed a certain attitude just to be a professional concert player. But I don't want to be known only as a violinist. I want to be a player of music-one whose instrument just happens to be the violin." Now that he is established, he feels an "inward calm" that comes, he says, "from getting away from purely commercial competitiveness. I've now arrived at the point at which the only thing that can stop you is your brain-and how keenly...
Octane Reader. Central Scientific Co., Chicago, is demonstrating a new instrument that uses a radioactive isotope to give an octane rating of a fuel within five minutes, a procedure that formerly took four hours. The device can be used as a control instrument in petroleum refining. Price...
BELL Telephone Laboratories, Inc. has installed an experimental booth in Boston's South Station that has no conventional instrument -just a speaker and small microphone recessed in the wall, leaving a caller's hands free to jot down notes...
Airplane pilots must be at least high school graduates, although most companies will only accept men with college degrees. Before becoming an officer, a pilot must have a minimum of 100 hours of flying time, and held a commercial pilot rating, an instrument rating, and a third-class radiotelephone operator's license...
Zabaleta rippled out a notable program anyhow. Instead of the usual keyboard music arranged for the harp, he played nothing that was not written specifically for his instrument. Instead of misty sound effects and undulating glissandos that have become a trademark of harp performances, he played clean-cut melody and counterpoint. High point: Hindemith's Sonata (1939), with its ear-twisting harmonies and Celtic echoes...