Word: vanguardism
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Ives: Symphony No. 3 (Baltimore Little Symphony conducted by Reginald Stewart; Vanguard). This imposing work was completed in 1911 when the late U.S. Composer Charles Ives was 37. Its serene and majestic first movement is the most appealing, but its allegro gets involved in a struggle between sprightly and weighty themes. The finale, again, is flowingly introspective. On an Overtone LP, Soprano Helen Boatwright performs Ives's 24 Songs. The selections span nearly the entire period of Ives's creative life. They show him as a romantic in spirit, a modern in terseness and detail...
CARDS OF IDENTITY (370 pp.)-Nigel Dennis-Vanguard...
...Project Vanguard" for launching small earth satellites has passed the talking stage. Last week the Department of Defense announced that it has signed a $2,035,033 contract with Glenn L. Martin Co. of Baltimore for the launching vehicle, the three-stage rocket that will set the first satellite in its orbit. General Electric Co. will supply the rocket motor, and other suppliers will be called on as the project develops...
Martin was presumably chosen because it builds the Navy's Viking rockets, which hold the single-stage altitude record. The Navy will have overall supervision of Project Vanguard. The satellite itself is the responsibility of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Science Foundation. Its size has not been decided, but the Department of Defense promised that it will be big enough to carry instruments and will be tracked from the ground by optical and electronic devices...
...TOPP (106 pp.)-Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle-Vanguard...