).. N to V:>lJ.n J AV O~~1H~ l H 6 1 ~2 S'H\OH 1 3 C! 18!;99 1I j The first public offering in eight months ofa magaZlne which aims to be the most beautiful in the world: rH°IUZON HORIZON is a big (9 Yt" x 12 ~", 136 or more pages), bi· monthly magazine in book form - with hard covers and 110 advertising. Temporarily, you may try a year's subscription at a lowered rate- $6.75 less than the same six issues if bought singly- by returning the postpaid form stapled at the right. Have you met HORIZON yet? Perhaps it's time you did, from the Negev to the stage-lively art from cave as this strikingly different magazine in book-form begins drawings to movie palaces. its third year. What can HORIZON do for you? For it's only once or twice a year, in a few such com­ Nothing aggressively uplifting, or fashionable, or urgent. patible surroundings as this, that the publishers (the There's no counsel on how to manage your money <?r same who publish AMERICAN HERITAGE, The Magazine your ballot, your casserole or your spouse. of History) invite new subscriptions. Your invitation There is food for thought, play for the imagination, to try HORIZON, as the form inserted here indicates, is for any reasonably inquisitive mind. And you'll discover, a good one - embellished with a lowered rate, prepaid as 160,000 people already have, that every issue fits in postage and ,an easy way to pay. well with your home's more cherished books, as· part of a purposefully' elegant, permanent collection of the arts. What's different about it? To try HORIZON, tentatively (you may cancel at any' time, A bi-monthly, HORIZON unites art and ideas, the sum of without penalty), m l!-il the form inserted between these which is culture, in a fresh format: superb illustration, pages. If it's gone, the address is 551 Fifth Avenue, New hard covers, no advertisements at all. It is printed here York 17, N. Y. Look through your first issue before you and abroad by three methods on three textures of paper. send a cent. Then we shall ask for $1.95 to begin, $5 a It is probably the most beautiful magazine in the world. month for the next three months. (HORIZON is regularly HORIZON seeks to serve as a guide to the long cultural $3.95 a copy, $18 a year- necessarily expensive, but not advent\lre of modern man; to explore the many mansions extravagant for a magazine which,is equivalent in qual­ of the philosopher, the painter, the historian, the archi­ ity to a $10-$15 book.) tect, the sculptor, the satirist, the poet; to create a . 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The Basic Repertoire 19 Martin Bookspan September, 1960 Argenta and Reiner score in Debussy IS Iberia Vol.5 No.3 Wood, GJue, and Geni.us 35 Henri Temianka T he story of Stra.divarius and his Editor remarkable instrumenls, as lold by Furman Hebb a member of the Paganin i Quartel Gustav Mahler-Part II 42 Music Editor David Hall An evalualion of the music David Hall and lhe recordings Managing Editor The Fantastic Saga of the 60 Ken and Noel Gilmore Robert Campbell Siena Piano Art Editor . N ew facls about a fabulous old Lnslrumenl and the man who Joseph FiLzpatrick rediscolJt:red it Associale Editor Be Our Guest 68 . Mrs. Robert Beckerdite Halls Fanlel A report from the states of Missouri and Illinois and John R. Chapin Assistant Edit.or Philip N. LaWn Editorial Assislant THE EQUIPMENT Dolores M. Gimbel Sound and the Query 41 J. Gordon Holt C<J,tLributing Editors A clin.ical /realment Martin Bookspan of hi-fi problems Warrell DeMotte Ralph J. 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