Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discoverers have not yet acknowledged their finds in formal reports to scientific journals, perhaps because the bones upset too many old theories. Their scientific caution is understandable. In a few short years, man's fossil record has been extended from less than 2,000,000 years to possibly more than 14 million. Yet even that startling leap back into the past amounts to only a few moments in the 4.5 billion-year history of the earth. Three billion years before man's ancestors took their separate evolutionary path from the apes, life already existed and flourished. Despite...
Comparing the influence of the long-playing record to Gutenberg is not as far fetched as it sounds. When they were first put out in 1948, LP records seemed to offer only an assortment of mechanical advantages: economy, convenience, less surface hiss. Like the 78 r.p.m., though, the LP at first was still just that - a record, a means of preserving for posterity some of the leading concert-hall interpretations of the day. Twenty-one years later, all that has changed. In a McLuhanesque transformation of musical culture, the LP is no longer a mere documentary device. For composers, listeners...
...ultimate creation of the recording process are composers who create only for the electronic idiom. To them, composition means either recording real-life sounds on tape and then transforming them electronically (musique concrete), or starting from scratch with an electronic sound synthesizer like the Moog (TIME, March 7). Electronic composers "write" on tape; their music was never intended for the traditional concert hall. "The trouble with the concert hall," says California's electronic composer Morton Subotnick, "is that it requires a social and theatrical esthetic that really has nothing to do with our music." Germany's Karlheinz Stockhausen...
Died. Dr. Philip Blaiberg, 60, the South African dentist who survived for a record 594 days with a transplanted heart (see MEDICINE...
...prime rate on loans to businesses by major banks remains at a record 8½%, but now bankers are talking of possible future cuts rather than further increases in the rate from which all other interest rates are calibrated. Gaylord Freeman, chairman of Chicago's First National Bank, goes so far as to predict that the prime rate may drop to 7½% or even 7% by year-end. Most bankers and economists are more cautious. They warn that interest rates could yet bounce up again. So far, though, demand has been dropping more than it usually does...