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VERDI: ATDA (Angel; 3 LPs). Who can be nostalgic for the Golden Age while singers like Franco Corelli and Birgit Nilsson are around? Both are near legends-though they are still in their prime. Both have very big voices. And both sing as if they were competing for top billing-which of course they are. Whether Verdi envisaged his heroic opera the way Nilsson and Corelli do it is another question. In any case, the rest of the cast is well-nigh unnoticeable behind all that star sound, and Zubin Mehta's conducting is efficient but not especially revealing...
...conducting and staging Die Walküre, first item in a new Ring that he will produce at the Met over the next four years. Since certain natural laws prevented him from singing all the roles, he drew considerable assistance from a superlative cast headed by Supersoprano Birgit Nilsson. Otherwise, it was Von Karajan all the way, in a performance of stunning quality...
...From Tenor Jon Vickers (Siegmund) and Newcomer Gundula Janowitz (Sieglinde), listeners heard the creamy lyricism of Wagner's love music as only unforced vocalism can produce it. American Baritone Thomas Stewart's Wotan had the slight reediness of a singer not fully matured but promising. Nilsson, the Brunnhilde, who can outshout half a dozen Wagnerian orchestras at once, concentrated instead on the compellingly human qualities of the role...
...says Mark Nilsson, a young man in the second year of G.E.'s 3-year Financial Management Program. As a trainee, Mark has held positions in the company's Flight Propulsion Division as Supervisor, Sundry Receivables, Accounts Payable, and Supervisor, Cashiering & Management Control and Reporting. His six-month assignments have included supervision of cashiers at G.E.'s Ohio and Massachusetts facilities; cost analysis responsibility on SST and TF39 programs, and responsibility for working funds at G.E. plants in New Mexico, Vermont, and New Hampshire...
...addition to supervisory positions, Mr. Nilsson has conducted one-man assignments in such areas as cost analysis for government proposals. Other training programs currently under way at G.E. include a Manufacturing Training Program and a Marketing Training Program...