Word: rca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After years of disappointing flicker, the color-television industry at last shows signs of firming up. Besides RCA, which has been the only major manufacturer in the field since 1956, General Electric plans to start making color-TV sets again in the fall. And in Chicago last week, squads of engineers were busily tooling up a production line for Zenith Radio Corp.'s new color set-a product that will be unique in at least one respect. Zenith's prices, company officials proudly claim, will start well above those of competing models now on the market...
...Harrison Baker, a newcomer from San Francisco who bills himself The Last of the Well Comedians (RCA Victor), is mildly notable because he is totally out of the new-comedian pattern, instead goes back a long way to imitate Bob Hope, with uneven results that are often funny. Beginning with the Pentagon ("a building that has five sides-on almost every issue"), Baker discusses the cold war in a deadpan style. Joseph Kennedy's way to solve the Cuban problem, he says, is to buy Cuba and sink it. Of the leading figures in the Congo crisis, Baker moans...
...give on one giant diagram a clear picture of the function of each contractor and sub contractor, which ones have to be speeded up to keep the project on schedule, and what the effect of speedups or delays would be on costs. And in a contract recently signed with RCA for the SAINT satellite-inspection system, the Air Force stipulated that RCA gets a bonus if the system is completed on schedule, lower profits if failures mount...
...most successful of modernist chamber works. At last week's UNESCO-sponsored International Rostrum of Composers in Paris, it was voted the outstanding musical work of the season. Winner of Pulitzer Prize and of the 1961 New York Music Critics Circle award, it has been recorded (by RCA Victor) and in the single year since its premiere, it has been played at most of the major European festivals. In various program notes around the world, it is known as Quatuor à Cordes No. 2, or Streichquartess Nr. 2, or simply String Quartet No. 2, by New York...
...Cohn: Son of Drum Suite (RCA Victor). A sequel to the unpredictably popular Drum Suite album of several years ago. Composer-Saxophonist Cohn coaxes six drummers (on snares, cymbals, tom-toms) into a sort of illustrated seminar on the art of drumming-from brush technique to rim shots. Cohn wraps his lessons into a number of his own big-band compositions with such variety and skill that listeners can forgive a little too much tick, thump...