Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SONATA RECITAL (2 LPs; Vanguard). Bela Bartok wrote for the piano as though it were a percussion instrument, but when he played it, he could make it sing in the best romantic tradition. This historic album, made at a Library of Congress recital in 1940, is one of the few recordings that survive to attest to Bartok's virtuosity as a performer, long eclipsed by his fame as a composer. With Master Violinist Joseph Szigeti, Bartok gives a bold and dramatic rendition of Beethoven's "Kreutzer" Sonata and plays the Debussy Sonata for Violin and Piano lightly...
HAYDN: DIVERTIMENTI FOR BARYTON, VIOLA AND CELLO (Nonesuch). Because his patron, Prince Nicolaus Esterhazy, liked to play a hollow-necked, stringed instrument called the baryton, Haydn composed at least 125 divertimenti for it, of which five are exhumed by the Salzburger Baryton Trio. To many ears, the recording will be an eloquent argument for keeping the twangy viol locked in museums...
...million of its own money into its C-5A project, set up a special division at its Marietta, Ga., plant and hired 2,000 people to work on research, mockups and planning of construction facilities. Into its full-scale mockup, Lockheed put a completely equipped instrument panel, hooked it up with a computer three-quarters of a mile away, and had test pilots "fly" the plane for hundreds of hours. With its bid, the company shipped 20,000 pounds of charts, graphs and blueprints to the Air Force, followed up with 500 experts to explain them...
...headmaster at Kassel's esteemed art academy took one look at the messy paintbox presented by the tousle-haired young applicant. "Nein," said he. After all, would a violinist treat his instrument that way? It was a bad moment for the awkward Hessian farmer's son until he remembered a good school in Karlsruhe on the Rhine. There the examiner, with more tact, looked over the madcap paintings on cardboard, asked, "Do you really think we ought to take you?" "With my talent," the youth burst...
Price Fight. Under pressure from the Government, the industry will equip all new cars with at least five safety features. Among them: rear-seat belts, padded instrument panels, outside rear-view mirrors. As options last year, all these cost between $50 and $75. Putting them on as standard equipment set off a rare price battle in Detroit...