Word: rca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PORGY AND BESS (RCA Victor) is another case of too much cake for the oven -this time with Leontyne Price towering over both score (excerpted songs) and cast (William Warfield, McHenry Boat-wright). The recording is rich, the singing is fine, and the livin' is easy-at least for those who can bear the thought of Price singing under Skitch Henderson's baton...
...hear him and his top Cabinet officers whip up a bit of enthusiasm. His message: get out there-away out there-and sell. The two-day White House Conference on Export Expansion was attended last week by some pretty good salesmen, including IBM's Thomas Watson Jr., RCA's David Sarnoff, Raytheon's Charles Francis Adams and Gillette's Carl Gilbert-all of whom paid $50 for the privilege of attending. But the President complained that U.S. businessmen often do not try hard enough to get their foot in the door when it comes to selling...
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra: RCA Victrola). Pierre Monteux gives a fine reading of his fellow countryman's most popular work. Made in 1960, this is one of an armful of records recently dropped from Victor's big catalogue and now reissued at about half their former price on a revived, well-remembered label: Victrola...
...high rate of production (industrial production hit a new high in July), the steady buying of consumers and the relatively stable wage rates that have accompanied a period of comparatively peaceful labor relations. But businessmen feel that they themselves deserve more of a pat on the back. RCA President Elmer...
Schumann: Carnaval (Artur Rubinstein; RCA Victor). Some of Schumann sounds like the fourth draft of a suicide note from a heartsick spinster. But here is an unpremeditated celebration of life, in which Rubinstein's firm hand keeps Schumann's Gemütlichkeit infectious rather than cloying...