Word: rca
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Anna Moffo Arias (Rome Opera House Orchestra, conducted by Tullio Serafin; RCA Victor). One of the youngest (25) and most gifted of the new generation of home-grown U.S. divas visits some familiar operatic landmarks, examining them with taste, agility and dramatic flair. The voice-silvery in the upper registers, amber in the lower-has rarely sounded surer...
Malcolm Arnold: Guitar Concerto, Op. 67 (Julian Bream, guitarist, with the Melos Ensemble; RCA Victor). A haunting, fantasy-ridden score by the composer of Tarn O'Shanter and The Bridge on the River Kwai that gives the guitar a chance to sing, emote, or simply brood, as it rarely can elsewhere. Britain's Bream knows the instrument's moods as surely as any guitarist now playing...
...Difference: Automation. Big brokerage houses are far ahead of the Exchange in putting automation to work. The house that hopes to be first to consolidate all its accounting processes into one computer operation is the 69-year-old firm of Goodbody & Co.. which is now phasing in an RCA 501 computer. Says Managing Partner Harold P. Goodbody: "We can't give good service today unless we 'automate.' " Goodbody. who joined the firm as a securities clerk in 1927, still remembers how during the heavy trading in 1929 he had to work straight through every other night...
Circulate (Neil Sedaka; RCA Victor). A first album by one of the more promising talents to emerge from the pop thickets in recent years. Singer Sedaka mercifully prefers his songs ungimmicked. and he gives a fine, fresh gloss to numbers such as All the Way, We Kiss in a Shadow, Everything Happens to Me. A songwriter as well as performer, Sedaka contributes a ballad with a better-than-average literacy count: I Found My World...
Five years old, commercial color TV seems at last to have established some sort of beachhead on the American economy, with a long way still to go. Since CBS has all but dropped its color programing, NBC has developed the field essentially alone, with its parent company RCA manufacturing all the color picture tubes sold in the U.S. Until recently, color was a loss leader for RCA, but in his year-end report last month Board Chairman General David Sarnoff cozily if vaguely mentioned color profits "in seven figures," and said that RCA color "has achieved the status...