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Though Kreisler plays his other pieces faster, with more articulation, and with less shmaltz than Mintz, the latter's Liebesleid--slow and sorrowful--has more appeal. On RCA Victrola's 1968 release of Kreisler "Souvenirs," recorded in the 1920s, the composer plays the piece with slides and portamentos at every place imaginable. Mintz plays important notes with vibrato and spirit without sliding. Directors might consider using the piece for a romantic movie scene. The choice of lovers will be irrelevant; the mood of the scene--an intense, despairing good-bye--will be the same...
...RCA collects bids of $90.1 million for space on a new satellite
Sotheby's was helping RCA sell space on its new communications satellite, Satcom IV, scheduled to be launched Jan. 12. As Sotheby's president, John L. Marion, opened the bidding, he stood in front of a back-lit picture of an orbiting Satcom that was no challenge to Turner for delicacy and draftsmanship. But aesthetics were not the point. Up for grabs were leasing rights to seven Satcom transponders. These devices pick up video signals from one point on earth and relay them to other points, enabling their users to distribute cable programs, for example...
...until Jan. 15 to disallow last week's auction and all future proceedings. There are 17 petitions now before the FCC, objecting to the auction mostly on grounds that selling transponders to the highest bidders is "unjustly discriminatory" and unduly inflates the prices. If the commission should agree, RCA is prepared to assign the transponders on a first-come first-served basis. They also have several to spare: Satcom IV carries 24 transponders, of which eight were assigned three years ago, two are "pre-emptable" (meaning, essentially, that they serve as backups) and seven are as yet undesignated...
...prudent corporate policy, however, for RCA to hold out space on all its satellites in case of emergency. Those eight previous assignments on Satcom IV are a sobering object lesson, being RCA's way of making good to clients on Satcom III, which was lofted into the air on Dec. 6, 1979 and vanished directly into the great void, where even now it may be circling the starship Enterprise and playing hob with its Tonight show reception...