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UNIFIED SPACE PROGRAM for a satellite communications system may be authorized by FCC, A.T. & T., RCA, G.E. and International Telephone & Telegraph want to experiment, but FCC is investigating whether they should form a combine...
Although such giants as General Electric, Westinghouse, Aerojet, RCA and Texas Instruments are active in infrared, the industry is still dominated by the small companies. Among the leaders...
COMO PUCCINI: Turandot, Birgit Nilsson, Renata Tejussi Bjoeriling, Giorgio Tozzi Rome Opera House Or and Chorus conducted by Leinsdorf. RCA Victor LM ndot is Puccini's best and yet frustrating opera. "Best," be of the scope of its profound and dramatic characterize "Frustrating," because the touchstone, its final duet, not written by Puccini but one instead by a mediocre of his, Franco Alfano...
Turandot, like many operatic showpieces, is only worth doing when extraordinarily agile and durable voices can be found to cope with the music's demands. RCA has found such voices. Birgit Nilsson is just about perfect in the title role; perhaps her Turandot even surpasses her thrilling Isolde. Her complete mastery of the extremely high tessitura and lengthy phrases is joined to a subtle depiction of Turandot's change from imperiousness to docility...
...RCA's fault if I consider seeing Turandot preferable to listening to their recording. The album does honor to Turandot. But Puccini's brazen, vivid score sounds best in the opera house--regardless of what high fidelity experts may claim. Furthermore, in a great opera like this, much of the music's power comes from its relation to the mise on scene...