Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...American Music of Irving Berlin, Dwight Thomas at the Paramount Wurlitzer Organ (Newport Classic). Even on this unlikely instrument, Berlin's melodic invention -- from the infectious Puttin' on the Ritz to the tender Always -- is nonpareil. The sleeper of the year...
...local vision center, you can just go back and have it changed. Not so for NASA, whose incorrect prescription is spinning around the earth in the Hubble Space Telescope. Because a mirror was ground to the wrong shape, the space agency was saddled with a $1.5 billion instrument that performs far below expectations...
...this time in Harvard Yard. Just like the first time, I came upon it by chance, hearing the speeches reverberate through my Sever Hall classroom. I hadn't paid much attention to the posters publicizing the protest, even though I had decided that I oppose using war as an instrument of our Gulf policy; it was the end of the semester, and I was distracted...
HOROWITZ: MUSSORGSKY/TCHAIKOVSKY (RCA Victor Gold Seal). A more breathtaking display of the piano's orchestral powers can hardly be imagined than Vladimir Horowitz's 1951 Carnegie Hall performance of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. He summons a galaxy of dynamics and colors from the instrument until, in the finale, he builds a mountain of gloriously controlled sound. The disk also includes Tchaikovsky's popular Concerto No. 1, conducted by Arturo Toscanini. A piano lover's dream...
That was the case with the ill-fated Hubble Space Telescope, according to a remarkably frank investigative report issued last week by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The flaw that crippled the telescope's primary mirror was not obvious until after the instrument was launched last spring. Yet technicians at the company that made the mirror had indications of trouble long before the telescope went into space -- and apparently never told the design team about the disturbing signs. Meanwhile, managers at NASA who had responsibility for the Hubble project paid little attention to the details of the telescope...