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December 1968 Issue
December 1968 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • About Time
    T. S. Matthews
  • The Warmongers
    Victor Lange
  • Gorgeous George on the Links
    Joseph Epstein
  • The Peripatetic Reviewer
    Edward Weeks
  • How Electronic Music Got That Way
    Carter Harman
  • Action at Generation Gap
    Dan Wakefield

Ponchielli: La Gioconda

By Herbert Kupferberg
December 1968 Issue
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(Callas, Cossotto, Votto, La Scala: Seraphim SIC6031). Gioconda isn’t much, but Callas makes it something in this reissue. Lots of vocal excitement.