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On the twelfth day of Christ- Volume 6 Number 2 February 1956 mas, as the song says, our true loves, the record companies, had sent us such an in- credible profusion of disks for review that The Listener's Bookshelf, by R. D. Darrell something drastic had to be done, if De- 4 cember-January releases were not to be cropping up in July reviews. Further, most AUTHORitatively Speaking r 6 of the records were good and many of them important. Thus, after much thumping, Letters 2 I shaking and nodding of heads, it was de- cided to put off until March the Prokofiev discography originally scheduled for this Swap -a- Record 32 month, and in its stead to cover as fully as possible the midwinter flood from the Noted With Interest 38 diskeries. This is only the second time since Vol. 1, No. r, that HIGH FIDELITY has come out without a discography or part of one, and As the Editors See It 53 may be the last. As alert readers will note, Editor John A Subway Stop Named Symphony, by John M. Conly 54 disquisition on the Hub City's Conly's Seventy -five years of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. great musical organization is titled on the cover: "Seventy -five Years of the Boston Symphony Orchestra," and on the title - On Modifying the Senescence and Mortality of Disks, page, more piquantly, "A Subway Stop by C. G. Burke 58 Mr. explains Named Symphony." Conly Many are the hazards that beset your record collection. that the second title was suggested to him, after the cover had gone to press, by Doriot Anthony Dwyer, the BSO's charm- What Goes into Your Tutti, by Edgar Villchur 6 r ing first flutist, and that he liked it so well Analyzing the tones of an orchestra's instruments. he used it anyway. By coincidence, we seem - with C. G. A Half- Century Without Vitamins, by Harold C. Schonberg ....64 Burké s piece on record -treatment - to be starting a series on disk ailments. In hand An interview with Artur Rubinstein, pianist extraordinary. we have two more, each covering a differ- ent aspect, by James G. Deane and Fritz A. Music Makers, by Roland Gelatt 69 Kuttner. You'll be reading them. Record Section 73 -109 Records in Review; Dialing Your Disks; Building Your Record Library. CHARLES FOWLER, Publisher JOHN M. CONLY, Editor Tested in the Home I I I ROY H. HOOPES, JR., Managing Editor Sherwood Forester Speaker System; Browning L -5oo SW Tuner; J. GORDON HOLT, Assistant Editor Electro-Voice Patrician IV; Recoton- Goldring Soo Cartridge; Pentron Emperor Tape Recorder; Jensen TV Duette; Shure ROY LINDSTROM, Art Director Music Lover's Cartridge; Scott als -A Tuner; Crescent 5oz Rec- Editorial Assistants ord Changer; Walco Replacement Styli; Sherwood S -r000 Ampli- MIRIAM D. MANNING; JOAN GRIFFITHS fier; Jensen Coaxial Speakers. ROLAND GELATI', New York Editor Audio Forum 133 Contributing Editors C. G. BURKE JAMES HINTON, JR. Trader's Marketplace 135 CORA R. 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