Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH: SIX SONATAS FOR FLUTE AND HARPSICHORD (Nonesuch). In bringing back the solo flute, the baroque revival has also headlined a brilliant French flutist, Jean-Pierre Rampal, who seems to have enough breath to tackle the entire 18th century output for his instrument. Turning from J. S. Bach and Mozart, Rampal has recently recorded music by Telemann, Pergolesi and others, as well as these melodic and graceful entertainments by Bach fils, accompanist for that royal flutist, Frederick the Great...
Such possibilities are spurring the trend to simpler and less expensive recorders. Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp. is developing a home videotape recorder that it hopes to market for $500. Sony, which already sells expensive recorders to TV stations and airlines, plans to introduce a set in the U.S. this spring that will sell for about $1,000. Both Ampex and RCA are working on home recorders of their...
Pike said that the way to reform the church is to teach truth instead of making the church an instrument through which it is "the guardian of condemnation." Pike called for a church that would emphasize the "certainty of the closeness of God, to all individuals, be they Christian or non-sectarian." As of now, Pike thinks, the church acts as an organization which simply suppresses everything...
...know my Ravel, my Tchaikovsky, my Brahms?" All the same, Piatigorsky asks: "How is it that a man who never conducted or studied conducting is capable of giving an acceptable performance without warning and on the spur of the moment? No one can expect a comparable feat on any instrument...
...development of sturdier, larger helicopters. Of the six major manufacturers, Boeing's Vertol Division and United Aircraft's Sikorsky Division are now producing twin-engine crafts with capacities of about 40 passengers. Once it gets federal clearance, New York Airways plans to begin in April Vertol-107 instrument flights from the top of Manhattan's 59-story Pan American Building. Since the new helicopters can operate at night and under the same visibility conditions required for jets, the line hopes to eliminate at least the complaint of unreliability in schedules...