Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With the tawdry practices of our fast evaporating daily press, a press monopolistic in many area, the injury done to a human life under such a jurisprudence can be as great, or greater, than the danger of a criminal prosecution. The District Attorney is not the only instrument for creating preventable hurt...
Khachaturian: Cello Concerto (Sviatoslav Knushevitsky; the U.S.S.R. State Orchestra conducted by Alexander Gauk; Vanguard). Written in 1946, this score could almost have been composed a half-century earlier. Khachaturian, a cellist himself, lets the solo instrument sing in a flowing, melancholy tenor. Performance: excellent...
...instrument will soon be tested on another project: detecting icebergs under the fogs of the North Atlantic. This job is now done chiefly by Coast Guard airplanes equipped with radar. Unfortunately, the iceberg danger area is often thickly populated with fishing boats, and the radar's eye has a hard time telling bergs from boats...
...William S. Richardson of the Oceanographic Institution will fly the new instrument over the iceberg infested Grand Banks in a Navy amphibian. When the radar looks down through the fog and picks up a blip that might be either ice or a boat, he will take its temperature. If it is too cold for a boat, he will report it to the Coast Guard...
...made. Because of the elaborate ornamental conventions of the period in which it was written, a great part of the work's charm lies in seeing its technical hazards overcome. Mr. Wenzinger did so not only with ease but with bravura. The viola da gamba is a seven stringed instrument resembling the 'cello, yet the remarkable freedom and slightly nasal sweetness of its tone make it much more appropriate than the 'cello for Baroque music. Harvard is fortunate in having this opportunity to hear Mr. Wenzinger, one of the foremost performers on the instrument and an expert in the performance...