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THE MUSIC

21 THE BASIC REPERTOIRE Updatings and Second Thoughts, Part Two MARTIN BOOKSPAN 31 CHOPIN: THE DISSIDENT ROMANTIC. PART Two The master's keyboard style reconstructed HAROLD SCHONBERG 36 A LIBRARY OF RECORDED MODERN MUSIC A composer picks the best of the basic discs WILLIAM FLANAGAN 41 THE PERSISTENCE OF PAN Transmogrifications of Olympus's bad boy ROBERT OFFERGELD 48 BALLADS, BANJOS, AND BLUEGRASS The saga of the Foggy Mountain Boys NAT HENTOFF 53BEST OF THE MONTH Reviews of the outstanding new releases

THE EQUIPMENT

16BEGINNERS ONLY Phono Cartridges HANSH.FANTEL 27 TECHNICAL TALK Lab reports on the Heath AAW-2I amplifier and the IMF Styrene Pressure loudspeaker JULIAND.HIRSCH 44 SERVICE. ..WITH A SMILE? Straight talk on the problem of hi-fi servicing IVAN BERGER 47SOUND AND THE QUERY Answers to your hi-fi technical questions LARRY KLEIN THE REVIEWS

59HIFI/STEREO CLASSICS 69 HIFI/STEREO JAZZ 81 HIFI/STEREO REEL AND CARTRIDGE 91 HIFI/STEREO ENTERTAINMENT THE REGULARS

4 EDITORIALLY SPEAKING 6 LETTERS 12JUST LOOKING 98INDEX OF ADVERTISERS

COVER ILLUSTRATION BY NEBRASKA THOMAS

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-4E- CIRCLE NO. 19 ON READER SERVICE CARD 3 EDITORIALLY I lili Stereoreview SPEAKING PUBLISHER PIIII III' T. HEFFERNAN EDITOR by FURMAN HEBB FURMAN HEBB MANAGING EDITOR WILLIAM ANDERSON IT WAS one of the wildest weeks the record business has ever known. MUSIC EDITOR The fun began on Monday, February 25, when RCA Victoran- ROBERTOFFERGELD nounced its new Dynagroove records to the press. (See David Hall's TECHNICAL EDITOR comments about Dynagroove on page 60.) Dynagroove was news to LARRY KLEIN the publications people ; but the astonishing thing was that it seemed also to be news to Columbia Records. Before the week ART EDITOR was out. it BORYS PATCHOWSKY became clear to everyone that Columbia had been caught with its collective pants down. ASSOCIATE EDITOR ROBERT S. CLARK On Thursday. February 28. three days after the Dynagroove bomb- shell had burst. Columbia counterattacked in an afternoonpress con- PRODUCTION EDITOR ference. Goddard Lieberson, President of Columbia Records, charged SCHINASI M EL in a prepared statement that the Dynagroove processwas "not a for- ASSISTANT EDITOR ward step in our industry, but a backward step." During the question- MARCIE LAITMAN and -answer period that followed, Mr. Lieberson was asked point- CONTRIBUTING EDITORS blank whether he or any of the Columbia staff had actually heard CHRISTIE BARTER the Dynagroove records. Mr. Lieberson replied that they had not, MARTIN BOOKSPAN but that they didn't need to, because the RCA Victor press release HANS H. FANTF.L WILLIAM FLANAGAN clearly indicated that the Dynagroove process involved limiting both STANLEY GREEN frequency response and dynamic range. JOE GOLDBERG DAVID HALL A day or so after Columbia's press conference, RCA Victor's top NAT HENTOFF executive. George Marek, replied to Mr. Lieberson. "In my opinion." JULIAN D. HIRSCH Mr. Marek commented, "Mr. Lieberson's statement, measured in GEORGE JELLINEK IGOR KIPNIS decibels of anguish, suggests Columbia Records has a new sound of PAUL KRESH its own : two sour grapes banging together. We suggest he tranquillize ADVERTISING his competitive nerves and listen to a few Dynagroove records before SALES MANAGER making accusations so irresponsible as to be laughable." LAWRENCE SPORN This was the situation at the time we went to press. No doubt Mr. ADVERTISING Lieberson has since heard the Dynagroove records, but so far he has SERVICE MANAGER not expressed any further public opinion of them. Of one thing. how- ARDYS C. MORAN ever, we can be sure : Columbia's engineering staff will be working ZIFF-DAVIS PUBLISHING COMPANY Itt.t.twe s1 t?j,t.annolttk.7atlul overtime until it comes up with an answer to Dynagroove. Conse- t lire Park As a11uo. York William B. Ziff. Chairman of the Board i lb 10-1953) quently. during the next year we can expect a tremendous battle con- Will loll Zilt. President W. Bradford Itrigga. Executive Vice President Hershel II.Sarin', cerning the quality of recorded sound-not only between RCA and Vice President and General Manager M. T.1111111111.111111,Jr. Viet. President and Treasurer Columbia, but among all the major record -makers. It seems certain Robert P. Breeding. Circulation Director chart., Housman. Financial Vice President Stanley R. ttreenfield. Vire President that we music -listeners will benefit from the conflict; I look forward ithilllp T. (Heffernan. wire President klidwestern and Circulation officeWAlosh 2.4011) 434 South Wabash Avenue. Chicago 5. Illinois to it. and I applaud RCA Victor for having fired the first shot. Ailterlimingt Jerre Sweeney Western Office ICRestview 4.021151 0025 Wilshire Boulevard. Beverly Hills. California Western Advertising Manager: Bud Dean **************************************************** Foreign Advertising Representative D. A. Goodall Ltd.. London. England Coming Next Month in HIFI STEREO REVIEW SUIISCRIPTION SERVICE:Allsubscription corre- spontienceshould be addressedtoHIFI/Stereo Review, Circulation Department. 434 South Wabash Avenue. Chicago 5.Illinois. Please allow at least ttlx weeks for change of address. Include your old LAB TEST OF STEREO CARTRIDGES: address. as well as new-enclosing if possible an address label from a recent Issue. PART ONE EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS must he accompanied In/ return postage and will he handled with reason- by Julian D. Hirsch and Gladden Houck able care: however. publisher asst.-nes no responsi- bility for return or safety of art work. photographs. or mitnwerints HOW TO START YOUR OWN Member Audit Bureau of Circulations RECORD COMPANY by James Goodfriend A LIBRARY OF RECORDED CHAMBER MUSIC HICIT7WIJT. by B. H. Haggin **************************************************** 4 HIFI/STEREO REVIEW 011,,L151lI 41H WAR /U/11 O SONGS

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Reading about Speakers Q. treble range in particular. If these tapes Itans Fantel, in his "Beginners Only" are any indication, poor old hut O. column for November, mentions sev- Public has been taken again, in ffre name 0 0 gallco eral books for audio beginners. In addi- of progress as usual. Perhaps many peo- tiontothese,Iwould liketo know Model 502M 30 waft FM -AM stereo receiver. Inte- ple labor under the notion of four -track grated multiplex tuner-stereo amplifiers-magic whether or not there are any books about superiority because they have heard two- bar indicator. speakers and speaker enclosures. I want track tapes only on four -track heads, $239.95 to build my own enclosures, but need Model 500M 70 watt FM -AM stereo receiver with which pick up only half of what is on exclusive Stereo Sentry to indicate stereo broad- more information on the whole subject. the tape. As aresult they have never FRANK W. KIRK casts (pictured below)... . $299.95 heard just how good a two -track tape Write GROMMES Salisbury, N. C. can be. Division of Precision Electronics, Inc., JOIINLOWRY 9101 t4inc St., Franklin Park, .1mong several good books note (trad- Terre limit-, Indiana able is Abraham B. Cohen's Ili-Fi Loud- speakers and Enclosures, published by Stereo Tuners Revisited John F. Rider Publisher, Inc., 116 II'. 1 I reo tuners 14th Street, New York II. This book in- was ofconsider:11)1e interestto us, but cludes information on constructing en- we feel that the reviewer neglected an closures, with many charts and graphs. important consideration of stereo tuners, Numerous plans can also be found in and this diminkhed the value of the G. A. Briggs's books Loudspeakers and review to your readers. In addition, the 4 t; on on e Cabinets, published in England and dis- basis for comparison was tint the same for tributed in this country by British Indus- all the tuners tested, a fact that put the sets the tries Corporation, 80 .chore Road, Port Dynamiter FM -3A at a disadvantage. Washington, N. Y. Most loudspeaker Itis an unfortunate effect of the pres- scene... manufacturerswillprovideenclosure ent stereo FM transmission and decoding plans free or at small cost upon request. systems that there is sonic detriment to the signal when it goes through the stereo B rigg Fair section of the tuner. The stereo listener

Iread in David ITall's review of the is very much interested in knowing how tuw Ormandy Delius recording( Jan- good his tuner is in stereo operation. This tiary that Brigg Fair is based upon an is what your reviews did not indicate- "Irishfolksong uncovered by Percy at least not for the important character- (;rainger.- Nfy musical dictionary tells istics of distortion and sensitivity. The the that the song is English in origin. tunersinthe report were tested and Who's right? rated as if they were monophonic units YOLANDE BROOCKTIOUSER (excepting the separation ratings). Albany, New York If they had been tested in the stereo mode and with stereo test signals, most of the ratings would have suffered-with Though itisdifficulttofira folk song's source, authorities seem to agree the exception of the Dynatuner's rating. that the Brigg Fair tune is indeed English The Dynamiter has a unique circuit configuration that permits a level of stereo -a Lincolnshire songinthe Dorian mode. In her liner note.s for a London p'erformance sufficiently high that the Delius album. loan Chissell relates that stereo detection circuits need not be re- Grainger, who introduced the song to moved for monophonic reception. Ref- Delius, heard it sung by an old man in erence to the review will show this level of performance. and it should be under- thevillageofSaxby-all-Saints.near stood that the Dynatuner was rated as Brigg. The first verse went as follows: a stereo tuner while the others were rated under the less rigorous condition of mono It was on the lift' of August reception. Because this was not explained The weather fine and fair in the review, it penalized the Dynatuner. f'nto Brigg Fair I did repair The Dynamiter was further penalized For Love 1 was inclined. through criticism thatit should have a switch to deactivate the stereo mecha- Two Tracks vs. Four Tracks nism. We did not feel such a switch to A few days agoI opened some two - be necessary since an effective "mono" track prerecorded stereo tapesIhad condition can he simulated through the obtained from a Midwestern dealer at use of the A -plus -B switch on the pre- drastically reduced prices. To my sur- amplifier.(Forspecialcircumstances priseIfound thatthesetapes, some that might make a complete stereo de- bearing copyright dates as early as 1956, activation desirable, information is avail- are superior in every respect to any four - able front Dvnaco, Inc. for the addition track tape in my library:tape hissis of an external switch.) Without a stereo - almostnonexistent, dynamic rangeis mono switch,the Dynamiter was re - wider, and distortion seems less, in the (Continued on page 8) 6 HIFI/STEREO REVIEW 4 -CIRCLE NO. 37 ON READER SERVICECARD looks like this

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Sensational University Mini -Flex with OptimumQ breaks through the small speaker quality barrier! The Mini -Flex,another acoustic breakthrough tern Df Mini -Flex dimensions. Other factors be- from UniVersity, is the first speaker system of its hinditssuperb performance include:special type designed to fulfill its optimum performance mass -loading; unusual viscous -treated "moving potential-as stated in its printed specifications- seal" suspension; new mid -range speaker and without the use of "trick amplifiers. It is a tire tweeter, each with exclusive -diftractor barriers" 3 -way speaker system, providing exciting bass for ideal stereo sound dispersion. And,itlooks response down to 40 cycles, exceptionally smooth as good as it sounds!Its crafted"cabinet -within - mid -range and crisp, peak -free highs to 20,000 a -cabinet" stylingwill enhance any room, any cps! Less than 0.4 of a cubic foot (15" x 9"x home. It may be used on a wa I,floor, shelf- 5")! A size hitherto considered impossibleto on a table (or even under it)! Oiled walnut. Only produce performance to suchspecifications! $59.95-at your audio dealer. For free 20 -page The reason-Optimum Q, the principle teat GuidetoStereo High Fidelity, write: Desk 0-5. eliminates the acoustic problems which, Lp to now, have prevented high fidelity bass performance in an ultra -compact enclosure. Optimum Q- UNIVERSITY in essence, the most ideal "marriage" of woofer LOUDSPEAKERS and miniaturized enclosure yet devised, to assure UBO SOUTH KENSICO AVE.. WHITE PLAINS. N.Y. the lowest resonant frequency possible in a sys- ADivision o. Ling-To-ncO-Vought, Inc. e-ss

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viewed under more difficult conditions thananyothertuner.Comparability ORIGINAL RECORDING could have been had by rating all the tuners as stereo tuners-this would have preserved the same characteristics that were shown for the Dynatuner, while the other units would have had less sensitiv- Broadway hit ity and higher distortion than indicated. Vt feelthat the reviewer failed to Dorothy Tutin Max Adrian John Barton niention one of the most important fea- Presented by The Royal Shakespeare Co. tures of the Dynatuner-to our knowledge a completely unique attribute: the Dynatuner can be completely aligned, in- to.17/01. cluding the stereo section, without external instruments, and this alignment

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will give performance equal to laboratory alignment. When the compar;son rEbe lipltotu Crown between tunersisbased on tenths -of - the 1.111.10101111raat ihr ka¢sMbOM% al ellitiall4 microvolt differences in sensitivity and Mono A 4253 Stereo OSA 1253 fractions of one percentof distortion, exclusively onC then the alignment will have far greater effect on performance than the differ- ONDOX ences in specifications shown in the rat- RECORDS ings. In normal home use, the tuner with most precise alignment capability offers the greatest performance potentiality. DAVID HAFIER, PRESIDENT Dynaco, Inc. Weal/ Philadelphia, Pa. Complete with 2 Dynamic Mikes, Output Toscanini on the Air Cable, Tape Reel and Being a dauntless optimist who still believes it) an eventual meeting of minds 1200 Feet of Tape between New York's strikingprinters and the newspaper publishers,Ihave not broken down and subscribed to any LAFAYETTE publication listing FM broadcasts. But rumors penetrate the news silence that PROFESSIONAL QUALITY blankets the city, and I have heard one about aseries of Toscanini broadcasts 4 -TRACK STEREO TAPE RECORDER A comple. e on a local station. Can you enlighten use RECORDS SOUND -ON -SOUND recording further? Here is professional quality at Lafayette's low price. Compare stud :o NOEL. DF.VI.IN this dependable portable tape machine with others and you in one case Staten Island, N.Y. will agree, the RK-155 is tops.

Playback 4 and 2 -track stereo; 4 -track monaural Record RiversideRadio, Station11'1?T'R 4 -track stereo and monaural Dual level meters Built-in 169" (106.7 FM). is presenting the Toscanini amplifiers and 2 full -tone stereo speakers forhi-fi sound NO MONEY DOWN performances in two series of thirteen Response: 40-18,000 cps at 71/2 ips 2 Speeds: 33/4 ips programs apiece. "Discography:1920- & 7'/2 ips Plays reels up to 7 inches 195-I" includes commercial and private RK-155WX With Carrying Case Net169.95 recordings, and is being broadcast Mon- day nights at 7:00 p.m. (the firstteas LAFAYETTE Radio ELECTRONICS 0 Rush me FREE 388 April I )."The NBC Era" presents origi- Giant Sized Pages nal broadcasts with the NBC Symphony I Dept. HME3 P.O. Box10, 1963 Catalog. Syosset, L.I., N.Y. Orchestra culled from seventeen seasons. 0 RK-155WX $ enclosed LAFAYETTE Radio ELECTRONICS This seriesis heard Tuesday nights at Syosset, L.I., N.Y. 1 8:30 p.m. (the first was April 2). I NAME OTHER LOCATIONS Jamaica 33, N.Y.Scarsdale, N.1. Meanwhile. other performances-de- New York 13, N.Y. Paramus, II ADDRESS Plainfield, N.J. Newark 2, N.;,. tails of which were not available as we Bronx 58, N.Y. Boston 10, Mass. Natick, Mass. went to press-will he broadcast on the LCITY ZONE STATE (Continued on page 10)

CIRCLE NO. 41 ON READER SERVICE CARD FlIFI /STEREO REVIEW This system has more guts than any other system its size.

An 8" high compliance woofer. A 6" mid -range "impact" speaker. A 31/2" super cone tweeter. And a high pass retwork filter crossing over at 5000 cps. It'll handle 20 watts o' power. Or fill an average room with only 5 watts of power. And it's only 41/2" deep by 14" high x 18" wide. Measure it. Against anything it its class. Sono,ette by Rek-O-Kut. Only $49.95-complete with volume control. An 8 page speaker systems brochure is available for the asking. Write: Rek-O-Kut, 38-19 108 Street, Corona 68, N.Y. Dept. HS -5 sonortte. MAY 1963 CIRCLE NO. 54 ON READER SERVICE CARD 9 following schedule: Wednesdays at 11:15 p.m., repeated at 3:00 p.m. Thursdays; and Saturdays at 8:30 p.m., repeated at 1:00 p.m. Sundays. THE Art (?) of the Album OISTRAKHS Your idea of displaying what you consider to be the best record covers of the PLAY year ( January) is a very good one. I hope BACH itwill encourage record companies to please our eyes as well as our ears. 1Vith the money some firms spend for their

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covers, surely they could obtain high - quality visualresults. However, sometimes it appears that a record company's stall must be composed ofitsartists' worst enemies. Take, for example, most of the cover photographs of Simionato, Berganza, or Tebaldi. Worst of all is the ludicrous cover photograph ofBirgit Nilsson on her Salome album, which is inevitably laughed at when displayed. Other types of covers also offend-for ex- David Oistrakh performs and conducts the Bach ample, that for the Mahler Fourth Sym- Violin Concertos No. 1 in A minor and No.2 in E major phony conducted by Solti. London is with members of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, certainly not the only culprit-there is David and Igor Oistrakh play the Bach Double Con- Angel's Tannhiiuser album, and many certo in D minor with The Royal Philharmonic Or- others from a variety of our leading rec- chestra, Sir Eugene Goosens, conductor. LPM 18 820 ord companies. Stereo SLPM 138 820 A.CF.RNADAS QUF.SADA Buenos Aires, Argentina ALSO NEW THIS MONTH Bells across the Sea THE DON COSSACK CHOIR: DARK EYES & OTHER IfoundRichardMohr's "Roman RUSSIAN SONGS cond. Serge Jaroff (with leaflet). Summer of Madama Butterfly" (Febru- ary) very interesting. But if the instru- LPEM 19 367 Stereo SLPEM 136 367 ment referred to as the "Japanese" bells, STOCKHAUSEN: ELECTRONIC MUSIC. Song of the borrowed from the Metropolitan Opera Youths/Kontakte. (Stereo only) SLPM 138 811 for the recording occasion, is the same CHOPIN: PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2 IN F MINOR, one the Met used in 1907, as Mr. Mohr POLONAISES NO. 3, "Military"; NO. 6. says, then itis not Japanese at all. The Stefan Askenase, piano, The Berlin Philharmonic originalinstrumentwas provided by Frank Wolf, whose sons now operate Orchestra, cond. Ferdinand Leitner. LPM 18 791 Wolf Drummers Supplies on 48th Street, Stereo SLPM 138 791 New York, and was an adaptation of an HAYDN: SYMPHONIES NO. 88 & 98. The Berlin Phil- ordinary hell lyre or glockenspiel. harmonic Orchestra, cond. Eugen Jochum. GEORGE. S. CLINTON LPM 18 823 Stereo SLPM 138 823 New York, N.Y. The instrument sent to Rome for the SUPERB RECORDINGS recording session is indeed the original. Constructed for the Met's 1907 Butterfly BEAUTIFULLY PACKAGED premiere, it has since been used only for that opera-with the exception of oc- DIRECT IMPORT -qtft- FACTORY SEALED casional stints in Turandot-and has become known in the halls of the opera Send for the new illustrated 1963 catalogue of fine Deutsche Grammophon Recordings. house as the "Butterfly bells." Puccini's Write: MGM RECORDS, Classical Division, 550 Fifth Avenue, N.Y. 36, N.Y., Dept. B-5 score calls for campanelli giapponesi- thus Mr. Mohr's name for the instrument.

10 CIRCLE NO. 25 ON READER SERVICE CARD HIFI/STEREO REVIEW Here'sareally advanced custom stereo system with 7 separate components. Count them:

This is the left -channel speaker. This is the right -channel speaker.

FRE FISHER 111,44 TOE FISHER EP44

TOE FISHER SOOC This is the left -channel power amplifier. This is the right -channel power amplifier. This is the stereo master -control -preamplifier. This is the FM tuner. This is the FM -Stereo -Multiplex converter.

Who says a seven -component custom stereo is the exclusive s t EREO BEACON*, a Fisher Fisher XP-4A's constitute a minimum -space installation has to come in seven pieces? Not invention that shows instantly whether or not an high-fidelity stereo component system that even Fisher. FM station is broadcasting in Multiplex stereo an electronic engineer would be proud to own- This professional -caliber Fisher system is and at the same time automatically switches toand even a wife would approve. Prices: 500-C; complete in three handsome units, occupying a stereo or mono operation, as required. $389.50. 800-C (virtually identical but with AM - total of only 51/2 feet of shelf space. That means Only a few minutes after you have taken a FM), $449.50. Walnut or mahogany cabinet for you can have stereo sound of the quality heard new 500-C from its carton, it can flood your either model, $24.95. XP -4A, in walnut or in a broadcasting studio control room-without room with life-size stereo of astonishing purity. mahogany, $199.50t. making your living quarters look like one. Simply connect two really fine loudspeaker unitsr The key to this no -compromise space sav- to it - preferably as fine as the Fisher XP -4A. FREE! $1.00 VALUE! The new 1963 edition of The Fisher DMA! ing is the new Fisher 500-C integrated stereo Julian D. Hirsch, the noted high fidelity Handbook, a 40 -page reference receiver. On a single chassis, only 171/2 inchesequipment reviewer, calls the Fisher XP -4A "one guideto custom stereo.In- wide and 131/2 inches from front to back, theof the best, most truly musical reproducers avail- cludes fulldetails on Fisher 500-C incorporates all of the electronic com- able today." Indeed, the 21/2 -cubic -foot XP -4A stereo receivers and speakers. ponents of a high-fidelity perfectionist's stereo rivals in sound quality the mammoth theater - FISHER RADIO CORP. system-five superb components in all. The total size loudspeaker systems of only a few years ago. 21-37 44th Drive, Long Island City, N. Y. music -power output is 75 watts (IHFM Stand- Its uniquely damped woofers, its two highly spe- Please rush free Fisher Handbook. ard); all switching and control functions are cialized mid -range drivers, its dome -type tweeter NAME ingeniously consolidated; the FM -Stereo -Multi- with a six -pound magnet structure are the talk ADDRESS plex section is a built-in part of the equipment. of speaker designers and audio enthusiasts. CITY ZONE__ STATE A remarkable feature of the Fisher 500-C Together, the Fisher 500-C and a pair of The Fisher HIT" PANEL ALSO AVAILABLE HArAT. PL5O. tALL PRICES SI...KILY HIGHER IM THE 1,11. wEST. (AFOOTE,S,.EE PAE.10 T ONG .SLAMO CITY I. N.T. CARA°, .TA.. 1 EL ASSOCIATES. LTD.. WIT.LOWDALE, ANY. MAY1963 CIRCLE NO. 34 ON READER SERVICE CARD 11 JUST LOOKING ...at the best in new components

Altec Lansing .tdds a second stereo Bell Sound lids re-entered the tape - FM tuner to its Royale family line. The recorder field with an exceptionally ver- new Model 315A includes such features satile four -track stereo machine thatis as:automaticall -electronicswitching furnished with a playback amplifier and to stereo FM reception, stereo -indicator speakers. The most novel aspect of the RT-360 isitsabilityto accommodate 10 -inch outboard reels by means of optional outboard -driveunits. A special head configuration in conjunction with the outboard -drivemechanism allows simultaneous use of two reels for dub- bing program material from one reel to another. The l01/2 -inch reels extend the playing time of the machine to six hours light, AFC, and frequency response of of stereo and 12 hours of quarter -track 20 to 20,000 cps. The Empress Royale mono at 33/4 ips. has been styled to match the 353B Royale stereo amplifier.Price, including cabinet: $256. circle 181 on reader service card Audio Dynamics announces three new loudspeaker systems, the ADC -14, the ADC -I6, and the ADC -18. Rectan- gular woofers with expanded styrene cones to prevent break-up are used in all three units. In the ADC -16 and ADC -18, the rectangular shape provides a radi- ating area twice that of the usual 12 -inch Separate playback heads make possible woofer. A slightly smaller woofer serves off -the -tape monitoring, sound -on -sound, the ADC -14. All woofers have a high - and echo effects. Two 6- by 9 -inch speak- compliance surround of molded cambric ers are housed in the removable lids and and a nine -pound ceramic magnet to are drivenby two 8 -wattamplifiers. provide proper damping and resonance Other mechanical features include push- It must be characteristics. button controls, three -motor drive, elec- The tweeter's11/2 -inch Mylar dia- trodynamic braking, and dual VU meters. The record -playback response at Amphora phragm isdriven by a11/2 -inch voice coil designed for wide dispersion of the 71/2 ips is 30 to 16,500 cps ±3 db. Play- AMPHORA, the friendly and fragrant higher frequencies. A vented cabinet with back -only response extends to 20,000 cps tobacco from Holland that puts a man ± 3 db. At 33A ips, frequency limits are supremely at peace with the world. 12,000 cps and 15,000 cps under the AMPHORA, with its rich natural flavor same conditions. Shipping weight, 48 lbs. -and extra mildness that makes it ideal Price: $449.95, plus $49.95 for adapter for the young man taking up a pipe. kit. AMPHORA, choice Cavendish tobacco circle 183 on reader service card at its best from Douwe Egberts' famed Royal Factories. It must be AMPHORA. Freeman Electronics' twenty- America's biggest -selling Dutch tobacco four -page booklet on portable tape re- ...stillonly 40t. corders supplies information on microphones: how to select them for specific uses, recording tricks, maintenance and operating hints, and other data of interestto both prospective and present owners of tape recorders. Technical data an acoustic filter applies resistive loading on Freeman's Models 550 and 660 are to the woofer cone and damps its low - included. Price: 50e frequency resonance. Frequency response circle 184 on reader service card of the systems is from 20 to 20,000 cps for the ADC -I6 and ADC -18 and 38 Olson Electronics' stereo pream- ... to 20,000 cps for the smaller ADC -14. plifier/mixer RA -502 will handle two A product of Prices: ADC -14 $175, ADC -16 $220, microphones or other high- or low-level DOUWE EGBERTS ROYAL FACTORIES ADC- I 8 $250. signal sources on each channel. The VU Utrecht, Holland circle 182 on reader service card (Continued on page 14) CIRCLE NO. 26 ON READER SERVICE CARD I' HIFI/STEREO REVIEW No manufacturer can make atop-quality 50 -watt stereo control -amplifier for less than $130.

But you can. (With the Fisher KX-100 StrataKit, for only $129.50.)

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If you want a no -compromise amplifierfier. The exclusive FisherDIRECT -TAPE - ending up with a faultless Fisher ampli- at a compromise price, you can't buy it- MONITOR*permits the use of all controlsfier. All you need is the desire, a few you have to build it yourself. And no oneand switches during tape monitoringevenings of free time and $129.50.** can build a better 50 -watt single -chassiswithout any change in cable connections. FREE! $1.00 VALUE! The ft* stereo control -amplifier than the FisherThe convenient front -panel headphone Kit Builder's Manual: a new, KX-100, at any price! jack is equipped with a switch for silenc- illustrated guide to high- Itft &sidles Here is today's most spectacular valueing the main loudspeakers, if desired. All fidelity kit construction. Fisher Radio Corporation in amplifier kits. The 50 -watt musicother control and switching facilities are 21.37 44th Drive power output (IHFM Standard, bothequally professional in their flexibility. Long Island City I, N. Y. Please send me without channels) assures superior dynamic And who can build the KX-100? Any- charge The Kit Builder's Manual, complete range regardless of speaker efficiency.one. Previous experience is immaterial. with detailed information on all Fisher Harmonic distortion at rated output isThe exclusive Fisher StrataKit method StrataKits. only 0.5%. A special power output ismakes kit construction so easy and error - Name provided for driving a third speakerproof that there is no longer a difference Address (center channel or mono extension)between the work of a skilled technician City Zone State without the use of an additional ampli-and that of a total novice. You can't helpL The Fisher OWL .51,10 CANA... 1Pif k

MAY1963 CIRCLE NO. 34 ON READER SERVICE CARD 13 (Continued from page 12)

meter can be switched to monitor either the right or left channel. Each channel Subsidized Speaker has a master gain control in addition to individual controls of the signal sources.

"Iransistorized and battery operated, the The characteristic of a good unit's signal-to-noise level is -65 db. If speaker system that is hardest to desired, the RA -502 can be used as a four -inputmonophonicmixer.Price: achieve under $100, once you $34.98. have established a satisfactory circle 185 on reader service card frequency range, is freedom from Shure's Model N33-1 replacement distortion. This takes a lot more stylus for the Shure M33 or M77 stereo than engineering devices or pro- Dynetic cartridgesis designed for use duction shortcuts. No matter with mono LP's. The stylus has a 0.001 - what the speaker's price, freedom inch diamond tip that tracks at 11to 3 from distortion always requires grams and has a compliance of 20 x 10' cm/dyne. The frequency response the same precise uniformity of is 20 to 20,000 cps, and the output level components, the same patient is 6 millivolts when installed in an M33 testing and care in assembly, the or M77 cartridge. Price: $19.50. same amount, and quality, of circle 186 on reader service card workmanship. Only because United Audio's Dual TG 12 SK these things have already been four -trackstereotaperecorder offers established at KLH in the pro- three speeds and a number of special duction of our other speakers can operating features. There is mechanical push-button control of all operations and we afford to apply them to the an automatic shut-off that functions both Model Ten. In a very real sense, at the end of reel or if the tape should the Model Ten is subsidized by break. The unit operates without pressure every other speaker KLH makes. pads and is equipped for automatic control of slide or movie projectors. The top Uncompromised in quality of performance, lower in price, and operated with smaller, less costly electronic components, the KLH Model Ten substantially lowers the cost threshold for a good high fidelity system. We have never been proud- er of any other speaker we have made. and bottom lids of the recorder's carrying case house twin extension speakers. Technical specifications include a frequency response to 8,000 cps at 17/8 ips Deeeriptive literature, with the name of your nearest franchised KLH dealer, and to 20,000 cps at 71/2 ips-both within is available on request. ±3 db. Signal-to-noise ratioisbetter than 46 db, and wow and flutter are bet- K ter than 0.15 per cent at PA ips. Chan-

KIM IDASEARCH AND DEA KIAMAtENT CORPORATION nel separationisgreater than 60 db 110 CROW; STREDT, CAUDFUDGE 19, MAIEIACIWALTTS throughouttherecorder'sfrequency range. Two microphones are included with the unit. Size is 13 x 15 x 10 inches, and weight is approximately 32 pounds. Price: $349.95. circle 187 on reader service card 14 CIRCLE NO. 40 ON READER SERVICE CARD HIFI/STEREO REVIEW Marantz Model 8B, Dual 35 -watt Stereo Amplifier, $2d4.

There are three amplifier characteristics which determine the realization of maximum performance quality from a given loudspeaker. F rst in importance is stability (a characteristic which is not fully understood by many in the industry). Next n importance are low distortion and wide power response. These are the prime factors which make one amplifier sound better than another. In all these respects the Marantz Model 8B is conceded to be in a class by itself. Other designs may have succeeded in app-oaching one or another performance characteristic, yet none have equalled the 8B amplifier in overall excellence. In fact, except for its conservative 35 watt rating, it is virtually identical in characteristics to the remarkabie Marantz Model 9 amplifier. Long term reliability is also important to the owner. As is true with all Marantz products, parts and construction are of the highest grade in the field. An individual report is packed with each amplifier stating its performance under ,igid tests. Assurance of the continuation of its fine performance is backed by a full two year warrantee. The vast majority in the high fidelity industry use Marartz in their own personal systems, as well as for demonstrations and tests of their products. Follow their lead where only the best possible results are acceptable. Send for free booklet 56V.

The precision quality of the Model 7 Stereo Preamplifier makes it a perfect motch for the 8B Amplifier. $264. Cabinet extra luta ob. mu I 2e 25-14 BROADWAY, LONG ISLAND CITY 6, NEW YORK CIRCLE NO. 46 ON READER SERVICE CARD Now is the time to come to the aid of your6,-utdon', party by HANS H. FANTEL

PHONO CARTRIDGES

WHATyou might hear from your phonograph as a smooth and shiny trumpet note is to the stylus of your cartridgea grueling journey of hairpin curves-as many as 18,000 each second. For added thrills, if the frantic jaunt is in stereo, the stylus must move not merely from side to side but up and down as well. It has been calculated that the accelerations of the stylus tip of a phono cartridgeare greater than those experienced by an astronaut taking off for outerspace. On such a twisting trip, the stylus will stay in theproper track better if its mass-and therefore its inertia-is as low as possible. Light moving parts, thanks to their lower inertia, permit the stylus to follow the record groove's turns accurately. This is why the specifications of high -quality cartridges often include a statement of dynamic mass, which is the effective weight of the moving parts whose inertia affects the stylus tip. Recent progress wiCe.t"YeriCC, in microassembly techniques has reduced this figure to less thana High -Fidelity Speaker System milligram (about 3/100,000 of an ounce) in some cartridges. To- ...it's Weather -Proofed! gether with high compliance-discussed in last month's column-low mass also reduces the downward force required for the stylus to trace Now you can easily add the luxury of high-fidelitymusic to your outdoor fun! the groove properly. Low mass thus contributes to the phenomenally light tracking pressures of today's top cartridges. Whether you're dancing under the stars, Low mass has still another advantage. As the mass of the moving swimming in the pool or relaxing around the barbecue ... the new Electro-Voice parts is made lower, their natural resonance is raised-ideally, far Musicaster provides high-fidelity music above the audible range. Harsh -sounding response peaks arc thus from your present hi-fi system, radio, eliminated. The sonic transparency and silkiness typical of the best phonograph or TV set. recent cartridge designs are largely the result of this upward shift Specially designed for indoor -outdoor use, of their mechanical -resonance frequencies. the E -V Musicaster features a heavy-duty Of the remaining cartridge specifications. it should be said that weather -proofed speaker mounted in a frequency response, as in other components. should always be qual- rugged aluminum die-cast enclosure. It's ified by a plus -or -minus figure( ± )indicating maximum deviation easy to connect for permanent use outside. And you simply move it into the from perfect response-for example. 20 to 20,000 cps ±3 db. Be\ vary recreation room for year -'round pleasure. of deviations greater than 3 db ; they may be audible if a resonant peak in your speaker system occurs at the same frequency. Send now for full information... plusthe' name of your nearest E -V sound specialist! Channel separation is usually stipulated at L000 cps ;such a specification doesn't tell you how well separation is maintained at The E -V Musicaster is also a "sound" buy for the higher frequencies, where it is more difficult to keep the left and church, school, or club! right channels from interacting. A statement of separation at several points such as 1,000, 5,000. 10.000, and 15.000 cps is far more informative. This practice has lately been adopted by some firms. A final consideration is the stylus -tip size. Most manufacturers offer a choice of styli with a tip radius of either 0.7 or 0.5 mil (1 mil = 1/1000 inch). Being smaller, the 0.5 -mil stylus is capable of finer resolution of the high -frequency signals in the groove, for it fits more snugly into tight curves, especially where they are densely ELECTKIVOICE. INC. Dept. 534F packed in the inner grooves. However, the small stylus may tend to Buchanan Michigan Please send me your free booklet. "How to Enjoy High - rattle loosely on monophonic discs more than about five years old, Fidelity 0.1tdoors" and E -V sound specialist list. which were cut with wider grooves. The 0.7 -mil point tracks both Name new and old records quite adequately. But if you are averse to Address: compromise, use a 0.7 -mil stylus for your older LP's and a 0.5 -mil City State stylus for stereo discs. CIRCLE NO. 30 ON READER SERVICE CARD 16 HIFI/STEREO REVIEW 1T - BY FEATHKIT

4 -TRACK STEREO TAPE PLAYER* Dlay; pre--ecorded 4- rack ate ec or mc ro tapes through amplifier type head it puts Convert to recorder On, adding electroiics later VA & 3'4 ips Fast forward & rewi 7" reels Digital counter Respor se 40-15,)0Ci cps, =3 db Woo, & flitter .2% or less at 7%, ips KIT .5.1D-11, 16 lbs. no money down $12 mg. $121.95

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Includes record & play aick pre- c.mplifiers for 4 -track sterec or mono tapes 7.4 & ips 7" reels Two inputs ea:h channel with m :Di- trols Two VU -type meters Dvital counter Response 40-1E,330 cps, -r3 do Wow & flutter .Z% or less D stortian 1% or less KIT AD -22, 23 lbs., no money dn., $17 mo. ..$1"9.95

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ncludes all amplifiers & sceaKers Records & plays 4 -track stereo & mono tape; 7'/, & 3% ips Bar -tape level indicators Mike & line inputs *All mechanisms-eatute Dual twc-way speaker systems Stereo headphone lack Factory as- .xxclulave Heathkit version 31 Vec a of California deck sembled case with li't-top Id aid swing out detachable speaker wings rugged die-cast simpli- KIT AD -72. 43 lbs., ro money dn. 5'9 mo., $198 rity Icrlong, dependable nerfor nonce-beige S COP - nertone color 4 1 r HEATHKIT FREE 1963 HEATHKIT Heath Company CATALOG a subs/diary of Days/mon Benton Harbor 40, Michigan Over 250 exciting do-it- yourself kits for S:ereo/Hi- Please Send My FREE 1963 Heathkit Catalog Fi, TV, Electronic 0-gans Marine, Educational, Ama Name. teurRydio,Test & _ab Home & Hobby that save ut Street to 50%! Send for your free City Zone. State copy today! Prices A specificalons subject to change without notice. Dealer &export pices slight'y higher.

t. -1 MAY 1963 CIRCLE NO. 39 ON READER SERVICE CARD turntable(333 & 45 RPM)

complete with arm, oiled walnut base, and dust cover, but less cartridge.

quoted from (.111( (Julian Hirsch) PROFESSIONAL quality. The AR turntable meets NAB specificationsfor broadcast equip- "The wow and flutter were the lowest I have ever measured ment on wow, flutter, rumble, and speed accu- on a turntable...The speed was exact. .the only rumble that racy.Itisbelt -driven from synchronous motors. can be heard with the AR turntable, even with the tone controls set for heavy bass boost, is the rumble from the record itself.

"I found that records played on the AR turntable had an unusually clean, clear quality. The complete freedom from acoustic feedback (which can muddy the sound long before audible oscillations occur) was responsible for this."

11111.1.10M11111 quoted fromHI-FI (John Milder) 1:11114.114,17,14

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ICONTINUE this month fly reappraisal of the re- HAYDN: Symphony No. 94, in G ("Surprise")- cordings of the fifty works that have figured in Beecham (Capitol set GC:R 7127. which also includes the "Basic Repertoire" series thus far. The first the other five of the first set of "Salomon" Symphonies) twenty-four were discussed in the April issue ; the con- continues to hein mono preference, and Giulini cluding twenty-six follow: (Angel S 35712) for stereo--this despite the fact that both conductors employed texts that have been dis- FRANCK: Symphony in D Minor- Monteux and credited by recent research. Scholarship. however, is the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (RCA Victor LSC/ no suhsti:utc for Bt.echam's special brand of urbanity LM 2514) have said the last word in this symphony and wit, nor for Giulini's feline elegance. as far as I am concerned. It is a performance of enormous power and drive, while at the same time the MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No. 4, in A ("Ital- depths of Franck's mystique are explored. ian") - The recent Klemperer recording (Angel S 35629) falls short of the sophistication and joyousex- GRIEG: Piano Concerto in A Minor- Katchen's hilaration of Steinherg's (Capitol SP/P 8515), one of recent recording (London CS 6336. CM 9336) leaves the conductor's most winning performances. unchanged my preference for the Rubinstein perform- MOUSSORGSKY-RAVEL: Pictures at an Exhibi- ance (RCA Victor LSC/LM 25661 as the best avail- tion - Ansermet's splendidlyimaginativeperform- able. and for Solomon's (Capitol SG/G 7191) among ance (London CS 6177, CM 9246)offers superb those that couple the Grieg and Schumann Concertos. playing by the Suisse Romande Orchestra and lumi- nous recorded sound, and still dominates the field of surprisingly good. A fine stereo version is London's modern recordings of this score. But for a performance (CS 6090) by Clifford Curzon and members of the of even greater artistic insight, there is the mono origi- Vienna Octet. nal-not the reprocessing - of Toscanini's reading (RCA Victor LM 1838), one of the very best of all SCHUMANN: Piano Concerto in A Minor- Lon- his recordings. don's recent performance by Katchen and Kertesz (CS 6336, CM 9336) is a rather high-powered, drivenone. MOZART: Clarinet Quintet in A- Boskovsky, My preference among stereo versions rests with the with members of the Vienna Octet (London mono Fleisher-Szell collaboration (Epic BC 1080), and the CM 9121). remains my over-all favorite among ver- mono account by the late Dinu Lipatti (Columbia ML sions currently available. Kell and the Fine Arts 4525) remains absolutely incomparable. Quartet (Concert -Disc 203) are my choice for stereo fans. SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 1, in B -flat ("Spring") - That no really first-class performance MOZART: Symphony No. 40 in G Minor - of the "Spring" Symphony currently exists is one of Dorati's recent recording (Mercury SR 90280, MG the enigmas of the recording industry. In themean- 50280) is a good one, but Klemperer is supreme in a time, Szell's (Epic BC 1039. LC 3612)is the most performance of impassioned drama and nobility (An- praiseworthy of those available. gel S 35407). SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 2, in D- No new ver- PROKOFIEV: Symphony No. 5, in B -flat - It has sions have come along to displace either Orrnandy been a couple of years now since we have had a new (Columbia MS 6024, ML 5207) or Monteux (RCA recording of this contemporary colossus. Ormandy's Victor LSC/LM 23421 from pre-eminence where this version (Columbia MS 6004. ML 5260) leads the cur- symphony is concerned. rent entries by virtue of its careful blend of fantasy and fire. STRAUSS: Don Juan; Till Eulenspiegel- Klemp- erer's coupling of these two favorites (Angel S 35737) RAVEL: Daphnis and Chloe - In his second re- was released after my last survey of the available ver- cording of the complete score, Munch creates an ir- sions. but the performances conducted by Szell (Epic resistible synthesis of poetry and passion (RCA Victor BC 1011. LC 3439) are more lushly romantic in the LSC/LM 2568). despite recorded sound that is rather case of Don Juan, more impudent in the case of Till. distant. Giulini (Angel S 35820) is my choice among recordings of the second Suite from the ballet, with STRAVINSKY: Petrouchka- The recent intense Dervaux (Command 11005 SD) for those who want Maazel performance (London CS 6339. CM 9339) the chorus included. is brilliantly reproduced and played by the Israel Phil- harmonic. but the mellow personal qualities of both RIMSKY KORSAKOV: Scheherazade - Beech- Ansermet (London CS 6009. CM 9229) and Monteux am's magical performance (Angel S 35505) of this (RCA Victor LSC/LM 2376) remain more attractive perennial remains unrivaled. Ansermet deliversa and persuasive as far as I am concerned. Stravinsky's reading of punch and imagination coupled with super- own lean and analytical performance (Columbia MS lative sound (London CS 6212, CM 9281), but even 6332. ML 5732), meticulously reproduced, has its at- this combination of virtues must take second place to tractions too. Beecham's sorcery. STRAVINSKY: Le Sacre du printemps- Bern - SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 8, in B Minor ("Un- stein's recording (Columbia MS 6010. ML 52771, for finished") - The warm and poignant account by its unremitting savagery, is my first choice. I find my- Bruno Walter (Columbia MS 6218. ML 5618) leads self more favorably impressed than heretofore by the field. with Reiner's lyrical view (RCA Victor Stravinsky's own account (Columbia MS 6319, ML LSC/LM 2516) a good second choice. The recent 5719). stark and rather terrifying in its elemental fury. Szell performance (Epic BC 1156, LC 3828) is rather Markevitch. too, delivers a worthy performance (An- too stern and unyielding for my taste. gel S 35549). SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 9, in C - I admire TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 1, in B -flat greatly the monumental strength of Klemperer's way Minor - The poetry and freshness of Cliburn's play- with this music (Angel S 35946). For those who want ing (RCA Victor LSC/LM 2252)still exert their a more relaxed performance. either Walter (Columbia powerful impact five years after the recording's issue. MS 6219. ML 5619) or Krips (London CS 6061, CM Janis (Mercury SR 90266. MG 502661 is more kine- 9007) is recommended. tically exciting. in a reading of musicianly bravado. SCHUBERT: Quintet in A for Piano and Strings The recent Richter-Karajan collaboration (Deutsche ("Trout") - The version by Schnabel with members Grammophon 138822, 188221 strikes me as a tortured, of the Pro Arte Quartet in Angel's Great Recordings contrived affair that misses the mark completely. of the Century series (COLH 401 is the finest recording the "Trout" Quintet has had. The sound is still (Continued on page 24) 22 HIFIiSTFRFO RFVIFW CIRCLE NO. 18 ON READER SERVICE CARD - 1411401T C10.1the Bozak Speaker System re-creating in the home the grandeur of great music with the infinity of evanescent detail that makes every hearing a new and exciting experience.

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DARIEN/CONNECTICUT (Continued from page 22) TCHAIKOVSKY: The Nut- cracker - Dorati's new rendering of the complete score with the London Symphony Orchestra (Mercury SR 2-9013) is everything his old one was -sparkling, alive, and sensitive- with superb stereo sound added. It clearlyleadsthefieldnow, with Ansermet's performance (London CSA 2203. CMA 7202) a considerably less vital second choice. TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 4, in F Minor - No recent versions have displaced the capricious but en- grossing Bernstein performance (Co- lumbia MS 6035, ML 5332) from my affections. A good reading is also to he found on the low-cost Richmond label (29082, 19082). TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5, in E Minor - Ormandy (Colum- bia MS 6109, ML 5435) retains his hold on the top position. with a read- an ing of great emotional intensity and sweep. The older Mravinsky mono - ConcertoneWith due apologies to Omar, only recording (I)ecca DL 9884) is a fine music is one of the ultimate joys of our culture. The advanced unique ballet -like treatment. audiophile, attuned as he is to flawless reproduction, has long appreciated the superiority of Concertone tape recorders.In TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. fact, we've heard some say they'd rather do without...than with- 6, in B Minor ("Pathetique") - The out a Concertone. To enumerate here all the many advanced and Klemperer recording (Angel S exclusive features of Concertone recorders would be difficult, but if you're interested, visit your Concertone dealer. If you'd 35787)isthe only significant new rather mull it over at home first, write us for printed details. version. Its restrained and inhibited understatement is no match for the intensity of Ormandy (Columbia MS 6160, ML 5495) or the lyrical excitement of Mravinsky (Deutsche Gram- mophon 138659, 18659). TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Con- certo in D - Heifetz reigns supreme on RCA Victor LSC/LM 2129. The recorded sound, however,isquite harsh, and the balance between vio- 6.111110 lin and orchestra is not good ; but the CONCERTI IN F:605 - EONCERT01% F.505 disc is a breathtaking demonstration Precision plug in head assembly Features Concertone exclusive of the wizardry of Heifetz. Almost as with four precision heads; delay Double Reverse-O-Matic, plays memory circuit; push-button oper- stereo tapes from end to end and satisfying is the serene and lyrical per- ation including remote control. back again ... and repeats the cycle formance by Stem (Columbia MS Optional Reverse-O-Matic®. It's until you turn it off. Plus other 6062, ML 5379). truly the most versatile profes- features usually found only on the sional quality tape recorder made. most expensive recorders. VIVALDI: The Four Seasons- The performance under the late Max AMERICAN CONCERTONE, INC. Goberman for the Library of Re- A DIVISION OF ASTRO-SCIENCE CORPORATION corded Masterpieces maintains its e9449 W. JEFFERSON 01.V1). CULVER CITY, CALIF. UPton 0-7245 place as the most inventive, most AMERICAN CONCERTONE, INC., a Disivion of Astro-Science Corp. tastefully ornamented, and most 9449 W. Jefferson Blvd., Culver City, California, Department HSR-563. stylistically authoritative ever record- Please send complete information on Concertone 605 505 ed. Of the others, the one by Janigro Name and I Solisti di Zagreb (Vanguard - Bach Guild 5001, 564) impresses me Address more and more :it is a performance City Zone State of strength and vigor. CIRCLE NO.6 ON READER SERVICE CARD 24 HIFI/STEREO REVIEW ..... leata

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MY FEBRUARY discussion of amplifier frequency response elicited some comments from Robert Furst of Harman-Kardon. Although I am not in complete agreement with a number of the points IMF STYRENE made, Mr. Furst's interesting letter is printed below. PRESSURE I read with interest your editorial in the February issue LOUDSPEAKER of HiFt/SrEar.o REVIEW concerning amplifier bandwidth. Your position, as I understand it,is essentially that amplifiers, being part of an imperfect audio reproducing chain, should he designed with a bandwidth limited to 20 to 20,000 cycles per second. We at Harman-Kardon are con- vinced that a preset restriction in frequency response in Tilt.: IMF STYRENE PRESSURE speaker uses British - any component in the reproducing chain severely affects built drivers and is distributed in the United States by the tonal quality of the system. Lectronics of City Line Center, Inc. The compact To cleanly reproduce a 20,000 -cps square wave, the band- cabinet, which houses a 12 -inch woofer and 3 -inch width of the audio equipment must extend to at least the tenth harmonic of 20,000 cycles, or 200,000 cps. The greater tweeter, is well damped with glass -fiber sound -absorb- the bandwidth, the sharper the rise slope of a square wave. ent and is ported with five1 -inch diameter holes. Since rise time is a difect reflection of transient response, Front the rear, the woofer looks conventional. How- the faster the rise time, the cleaner and more transparent ever. the cone front is filled with polystyrene foam 3V2 the sound. inches thick at the center and tapering off at the We also differ with you on how far an amplifier's low - frequency response should extend. We have determined edges. This cone structure is very light and rigid. and through careful listening tests that audio equipment with the inert polystyrene is inherently nonresonant. The a frequency response extending below 5 cycles has greater highly compliant suspension is designed for a free -air transparency and tightness in the audible range, especially cone resonance of 20 cps. between 20 and 100 cycles. The tweeter unit has an impregnated fabric dia- When you reviewed the Citation II power amplifier you indicated that many of the measurements appeared to be phragm. behind a slotted metal plate which provides no better than those of some other fine amplifiers and yet, air loading and improves dispersion. Crossover at 1,600 "The Citation II seems to have a special quality which may cps is by a simple series capacitor. be unique." It may be unique, but itis explainable. The The specification sheet accompanying the speaker superior listening quality in the Citation IIis due to its system includes a machine -run response curve taken extended bandwidth, which results in near -perfect square - wave response front 20 to 20,000 cycles per second. in an anechoic chamber and a warning that this curve Furthermore, rolling off the response above 20,000 cps, cannot be compared to other curves run under differ- as you favor doing, introduces phase distortioninthe ent conditions. My response curve, also plotted auto- entire audible range. We contend that bandwidth limita- matically, was made in a live room. but nevertheless tions should not be built into audio equipment. Instead of shows a remarkable similarity to the manufacturer's a preset filter, why not give the listener the option of using a well -designed roll -off filter? curve. Above 60 cps the curves have the same essential We recommend a simple experiment that will dramatic- shape, with a broad rise around 300 to 600 cps. a ally prove our point. Substitute a high -quality wideband smaller bump at 2,500 cps. and very smooth, flat re- component, such as the new solid-state Citation A, for its sponse from 3,000 cps to 15,000 cps. Only below 60 narrow -band equivalent in your system. We believe you cps, where room effects are significant, do the curves will hear superior tone quality and instrument definition. This is the best evidence we can offer that the improvement differ appreciably. in tone quality is neither unexplainable nor mystical. It is Even so, my data show a response of ±8 db from clearly a result of wideband response, resulting in less phase 40 to 15,000 cps. and ±5 db from 100 to 15,000 cps, shift and improved square -wave response. which is excellent performance. The rise in response ROBERT F URST, VICE PRESIDENT-ENGINEER' NC in the lower middle frequencies was not audible as Harman-Kardon, Inc. ,itch, but caused the sound to appear to originate at MAY1963 27 the front surface of the enclosure, rather than within four silicon rectifiers, plus four additional transistors or behind it. Dispersion, particularly at high frequen- for regulation and electronic filtering. cies, was outstanding-in fact, the speaker sounded Heath has come up with a highly successful solution pretty much the same from any angle. Very low fre- to the problem of output -transistor damage fromover- quencies were reproduced cleanly, with no tubbiness load or overdrive. Overdriving either channel will tripa and low harmonic distortion down to about 40 cps. power -supply circuit breaker, and shorting the speaker The IMF speaker was free of coloration and emi- leads will similarly open a speaker -line circuit breaker, nently musical and well-balanced throughout its fre- before the transistors are damagedor destroyed. A few quency range. seconds after the fault is removed, the breakersauto- A final clue to the fine sound of this loudspeaker matically reset and restore normal operation. was its transient response. as revealed by tone -burst The 100,000 -ohm input impedance of the AAW-21 tests. Except at the crossover frequency, there was vir- is slightly lower than that of tube amplifiers, but this tually no ringing or other spurious responses. should present no problems since mostprogram sources As a bonus, the IMF is fairly efficient. I drove it with have low output impedances. However, the 30,000- a good 15 -watt amplifier, and never felt the need of ohm phono input impedance may slightly reduce the more power. The price of the IMF Styrene Pressure high -frequency response of some cartridges. loudspeaker is $200. The standard finish of the 251/2 I measured the frequency response of the Heath x 161/2 x 111/2 -inch cabinet is oiled walnut. AAW-21 as ±2 db from 20 to 20,000cps, with the bass controls advanced to the two -o'clock position. In the indicated flat position. the bassresponse fell off gradually to -6 db at 20 cps. RIAA phono equalization was excellent, ±0.7 db from 20 to 20,000cps. but HEATH AAW-21 the tape -playback equalization fell off slightly below AMPLIFIER 100 cps, to -4 db at 20 cps. In the unit I checked, channel -balancing hadto be done with the input -level adjustments, since the concentric volume controls track poorly when offset by only a few decibels. IN MY EXPERIENCE, many moderate -price transis- Hum was low : -60 db on phono and -75 dbon torized amplifiers have failed to live up to their ad- high-level inputs, referred to 10 watts output. Gain vance notices in performance or reliability. The new was exceptionally high ;only 0.85 millivolt at the Heath integrated stereo amplifier AAW-21 appears phono input or 80 millivolts at a high-level inputwere to herald a change in this situation. required to drive the amplifier to 10 watts output. A full complement of adjustments and control func- Mid -frequency channel separation was slightly better tions is accessible from the front, and yet an unclut- than 50 db. tered appearance is achieved by concealing most of The true mettle of the AAW-21 was indicated by them behind a hinged door at the bottom of the front its power -response curves. At 2 per cent harmonic panel. Among the concealed controls are individual distortion it delivered 38 to 40 watts at 1.000cps, and input level -set adjustments, tape -monitor switch, loud- a full 30 watts at 30 and 20,000 cps, with both channels ness -compensation switch, and speaker phase -reversal operating into 8 -ohm loads. Output at 0.5per cent switch. Power is switched on and off by pressing a distortion was about 10 per cent lower. Unlike ampli- section of the lower right portion of the amplifier's fiers using output transformers, the AAW-21's distor- front panel. tion level was fairly constant throughout the audio There are five visible controls :concentric volume range. At 2 or 3 watts, the distortion was about 0.5 per and tone controls, concentric input -selector switches cent and fell to about 0.25 per cent at 35 watts. Clip- (controlling left and right channels separately), and ping was symmetrical, abrupt, and free of blocking and the stereo/mono mode -selector switch. The dual vol- oscillation. I suspect that this has much to do with the ume and dual tone controls have slip clutches, which fine sound of this and other well -designed transistor permit either simultaneous or individual adjustment amplifiers. In listening tests, the AAW-21 soundedvery of each channel. clean and had the punch associated with a good 75- Printed -circuit boards are used in the amplifier's to 80 -watt amplifier. preamp and tone -control sections. and a large number Selling for $219.95 factory -wired, the Heath AAW- of the components are encapsulated in modules. Each 21is a good value by any standards. The same per- output stage uses four high -power germanium tran- formance can be had at a saving by constructing the sistors mounted on large finned heat sinks, which in unit from a kit, which is priced at $134.95. normal operation remain quite cool. The output transistors are direct -coupled to the For additional product information, use the reader service speakers. with each output stage driven through a card. Circle number 188 for the IMF Styrene Pressure husky interstage transformer. Twelve transistors are loudspeaker, 189 for the Heath AAW-21 amplifier. employed in each channel, and the power supply uses

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MAY 1963 CIRCLE NO. 38 ON READER SERVICE CARD Polish heritage, and hence that much more puzzling to his contemporaries. And he probably used far less rubato while playing his non -nationalistic music. But Chopin it seems certain that his rubato was always controlled, never capricious. When the English pianist Salaman milk. It was a Polish characteristic, and he employed heard Chopin in 1848, he wrote, "In spite of all I it in everything he played. But to cars not accustomed had heard of Chopin's tempo rubato, I still recollect to those delicate rhythmic displacements, the meter noting how precise he was in the matter of time, ac- sounded awry. In 1842, Chopin was giving a lesson cent and rhythm, even when playing most passion- to Wilhelm von Lenz, author of studies of Beethoven ately, fancifully and rhapsodically." and articles on Liszt and Chopin, when Meyerbeer Liszt, Halle, and von Lenz all testify to the control walked in. The tiny Mazurka in C, Op. 33, No. 3 that Chopin brought to his rubato. Liszt described it was being played, and von Lenz tells what happened : as "a tempo agitated, broken, interrupted, a movement flexible, yet at the same time abrupt and lan- Meyerbeer had seated himself ;Chopin let guishing. .. All his compositions should be played me play on. with this accented and measured swaying and balanc- "That is two-four time," said Meyerbeer. ing." The key word here is "measured." In matters For reply, Chopin made me repeat, and kept of exact, measured rhythm Chopin was, as his pupil time by beating loudly on the instrument with Mikuli said, inexorable, and he always had a metro- his pencil ;his eyes glowed. nome on the piano. Rubato was never for him an in- "Two-four," Meyerbeer repeated quietly. vitation to license. I never but once saw Chopin angry ;it was at The secret, as Chopin practiced it, was that the this time ! A delicate flush colored his pale checks, feeling of individual note values was always pre- and he looked very handsome. served, whatever the temporary rhythmic displace- "It isthree-four," he said loudly, he, who ment ;the rhythm would fluctuate but never the always spoke so softly. "Give it to me for a ballet in my opera."- underlying metrical pulse. Thus, a quarter -note remained a quarter, a dotted eighth a dotted eighth. L'Africaine, then kept a secret-"I will show you, Halle and Meyerbeer notwithstanding, Chopin's then." "It is three-four," almost screamed Chopin, rubato must have been metrically precise. They had trouble counting because of the unusual and unprece- and played it himself. He played it several times, dented freedom Chopin employed-his approach was and stamped time with his foot - he was beside too novel for anybody trained in the old school. himself !It was of no use ; Meyerbeer insisted it was two-four, and they parted in ill humor. Indeed, Chopin's rubato, except forits broader quality, was probably not unlike Mozart's. Mozart Chopin's rubato differed-in the mazurkas at least wrote that in an adagio rubato the left hand should -from all others in that it was broader, thanks to his go on playing in strict time. Von Lenz, who could not

Auguste Clesinger's cast of Chopin' left hand reveals it. delicacy and the congenital weakness of his fourth finger. as indicated by its suppressed knuckle.

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counterpoint and harmony are ; how the fugue is like pure logic in music, and that to know fugue deeply isto be acquainted with the element of all reason and all consistency in music." The classical element was always there. His Preludes in all the major and minor keys were inspired, at least in key concept, by the Well -tempered Clavier. Is not Chopin's first Pre- lude, in C. a compliment to Bach's first Prelude? If you play both at a slow tempo, the resemblances are too striking to be coincidental. Chopin's second great love was Mozart. The Trio in E (K. 542) figured repeatedly in his programs. He achieved little identity with Beethoven. though once in a while he would play the A -flat Sonata. Op. 26. He told Halle that the E -flat Sonata, Op. 31, No. 3, was "veryvulgar."Mendelssohn's Songs without Words were not vulgar, but he did not like them. Only Bach and Mozart attracted Chopin mightily. He studied them thoroughly, and their ideals of workmanship figured in his own music and piano -playing. Delicate as his playing was, it never seemed to miss fire when heard in a small room. As the Czech pianist An 1835 lithograph ul a concert in an arixtacratic Paris salon, Moscheles said, his pianissimos were a mere breath : the world in which Chopin established his pianistic reputation. "He requires no powerful forte to produce the required contrasts. The consequence is that one never have known of Mozart's letter, quotes Chopin as say- misses the orchestral effects that the German school ing, "The left hand is the conductor, it must not demands of a pianoforte player." Naturally, Chopin's waver or lose ground ; do with the right hand what perfect technique provided absolute ludicity. but his you will and can. Supposing that a piece lasts a given contemporaries were more impressed with his free- number of minutes; it may take just so long to per- dom, poetry, and nuance. When he played the climax form the whole, but in the details deviations may of his Barcarolle he had to use a pianissimo instead occur." Liszt's famous definition says much the same of fortissimo as marked. "But with such wonderful thing. but allegorically: "Do you see those trees? The nuances," exclaims Halle. "that one remained in doubt wind plays in the leaves, life unfolds and develops if this new reading were not preferable to the accus- beneath them, but the tree remains the same-that is tomed one." the Chopin rubato !" In short, vary as much as is necessary. but never lose the basic meter. 0NE RELIABLE observer of Chopin's playing in his Although many nineteenth-century pianists went last years was Alfred Hipkins of the London piano - wild in the name of rubato, it is unlikely that Chopin manufacturing firm of Broadwood. He was Chopin's ever did, for his classical streak was strong. Chopin piano tuner-as well as being a fine pianist himself-a and classicism may sound incompatible, but of all the historian, and a pioneer in harpsichord research. In Romantics he was at once the most revolutionary and 1848 Chopin played in London's Eaton Place, which the most classical-classical in that for the most part had about 150 seats, just the right size for the sick his forms are perfectly matched to content, his work- pianist's fragile touch. Near death, he was so emaciated manship jewelled and precise. There is little padding, that "he looked transparent," according to one ob- and no superfluous passage work. Bach always inspired server. Hipkins has left a record of Chopin's super - him :before a concert he would shut himself away pianissimos and singing legato on this occasion. He and play from the Well -tempered Clavier. says that Chopin used plenty of pedal, especially in The year Chopin died he spent much time with left-hand arpeggio passages. "which swelled or dimin- Delacroix, and the great French painter relates in his ished like waves in an ocean of sound. He kept his el- journal the story of one afternoon he spent with bows close to his sides and played only with finger Chopin. "During the day he talked music with me touch-no weight from the arms. He used a simple, and that gave him new animation. I asked him what natural position of the hands ... adopting the easiest established logic in music. He made me feel what fingering, although it might be against the rules. that

MAY IYOJ i Chopin came to him. He changed his fingers on a key as often as an organ player." Chopin never hesitated to use the thumb on the black keys, a practice frowned upon by adherents of the Czerny-Hummel school, or to pass the thumb under the fifth finger. or to slide a finger from black key to white key, or even from white key to white key. But Hipkins's statement that Chopin played only from the fingers must not he taken to mean that Chopin always played so. At that stage in his last illness, his motions had to be extremely economical, and his weakness would not have permitted many shoulder or arm movements. Chopin himself is on record as saying that the upper arm must he used. Physically, however. Chopin was the least flamboyant of all the great pianists. Disliking public performance. and further handi- capped by his illness, Chopin made surprisingly few public appearances. His reputation as a pianist rests on about thirty concerts. He did not have to play This painting of Chopin by Rubio. front .4l/red Cortot's collection, much, for he derived a thoroughly satisfactory income show.% the lionized pianist at the height of his Parisian celebrity. from teaching and the publication of his music. He was a busy society teacher-"I have to give a lesson because of his strength. Von Lenz describes him as to young Mme. Rothschild, then to a lady from Mar- "a rough fellow at the piano. but with robust health seilles, then to an Englishwoman, then to a Swedish and a herculean frame... I heard him at Chopin's; one...." he played like a porter. . . Chopin took so much He apparently had only one pupil of genius. That trouble to try and carve a toothpick out of this log !" was Karl Filtsch. the blond, delicate Hungarian who As a teacher Chopin was strictly business- both died of consumption at the age of fifteen-Liszt said financially and artistically.Punctually ("With me, of him, "\'hen the little one goes on the road. I shall things go by the clock") at 8 A.M., he ushered the shut up shop." A youth named Paul Gunsberg, who, student into his studio, which contained two pianos like Filtsch, died very young, was also considered one -a Pleyel grand and a small cottage piano on which of Chopin's few really brilliant pupils. Otherwise. the Chopin accompanied. The lesson cost twenty francs. list of Chopin's pupils was a social register --Princess and the student was expected to leave the money on Marcelline Czartoryska, Princess C. de Souzzo. the the mantelpiece. Chopin always dressed impeccably Countess d'Apponyi. Princess Elisabeth Czernicheff, for his lessons :hair curled, shoes polished, clothes Baroness Bronicka. and so on. As a teacher Chopin elegant. Lessons were supposed to last an hour but was very fashionable. sometimes ran more. Other than the unfortunate Filtsch, there were a few talented pupils ; some of them went on to careers HIS PUPIL Mikuli is the authority for the statement in music, but none was outstanding. Georges Mathias that Chopin started all his pupils with Clementi. Then became a prominent teacher at the Paris Conserva- came Cramer, Moscheles, and Clementi again with toire; Carl Mikuli (whose editions of Chopin were the Giadus ad Parnassum. (The French pedagogue standard for many years) went on to teach at Lem- Marmontel said that in equality of fingers and perfect berg; and George Schumann (no relation to the independence of hands, Chopin's playing stemmed composer) established a good reputation as a teacher from the school of Clementi.) Bach, Handel, and Scar- in Berlin. Adolph Gutmann, to whom Chopin dedi- latti were also used. For advanced pupils Chopin's cated the C -sharp Minor Scherzo, made a career of prescriptions were surprisingly catholic, whatever his being his pupil and friend, but nobody seemed to think own private feelings about contemporary compositions seriously of Gutmann as a pianist. He was a man of might have been. In the repertoire of his students were large size, with big hands, and Chopin admired him pieces by Mozart. Dussek. Field, Hummel, Ries, Beeth-

34 HIFI/STEREO REVIEW Suppleness is of extreme importance. [During Chopin's first lessons with a pupil his most often - z used word was "easily...easily."] Do not use a flat hand. Ease of movement is impossible if the fingers are outstretched. Kalkbrenner is again wrong in advising his pupils to read a newspaper while practicing technical exercises. Practicing demands intensity and concentration. It is not purely mechanical. Avoid muscular fatigue. [Chopin feared the abrutissement of his pupils-the stupor brought on by too much practice. He recommended no more than three hours of practice daily.] The correct use of the pedal is a lifelong study. Concentrate on legato. Hear great singers. "If you want to play the long cantilena in my Scherzo [in B -flat Minor], go hear Pasta or Rubini." [Chopin adored good singing all his life, was a friend of Bellini, and in his Nocturnes tried to capture a Bellini-type melody over a John Field bass. The legato style of the great singers had a decided influence on Chopin's playing.] Taken shortly before his death, an 1849 daguerreotype now in Fingers arc unequal in strength. Special ex- Warsaw reveals a Chopin so emaciated "he looked transparent." ercises should be developed to make the best of each finger. [Chopin derided teachers and schools oven (up to Op. 57) , Weber, Moscheles, Heller, Hiller of playing that aimed at the myth of equal finger -even Schumann, Liszt, and Thalberg- and, of strength. "Flying in the face of nature, it has be- course, Chopin. come customary to attempt to acquire equality He did much illustrating and explaining at the sec- of strength in the fingers. It is more desirable that ond piano, and he could be cutting. Pupils disagreed the student acquire the ability to produce a about how effective a teacher he was. One said that finely -graded quality of sound, or so it seems to "his only method was to play like an angel and then me. The ability to play everything at a level tone tell me to do likewise ... The hopeless part of it was is not our object. There are as many different ... each time he played, his interpretation was entirely sounds as there are fingers."] different." Madame Rubio, one of his assistants, said that he These instructions may not seem revolutionary to- was often irritable, and Mikuli bears this out by say- day, but in the 1840's they were prophetic - far in ing that some of Chopin's princesses and countesses advance of their time, and a sharp break from tra- went away in tears. Mathias once saw him break a ditional teaching. Here Chopin was the first modern- chair in rage. But another pupil testifies that Chopin ist, just as he was the first modern pianist. It is was patient and tolerant. All of which indicates that unfortunate that he never got beyond a few pen- Chopin approached his pupils differently. Teachers cilled pages of his mithode. It would have told us are perhaps always patient and tolerant with their even more than we currently know about his philos- talented pupils, and irritated by the stupid ones. ophy of pianism. Fortunately the picture we have is Chopin intended to bring out a book on teaching, quite complete, and the figure of Chopin as pianist and left some preliminary notes. These arc of great clearly emerges :that marvelously controlled, original, importance, not so much for what they actually say poetic, classic -Romantic master of nuances and fine as for what they indicate about Chopin's own method. gradations, whose physical resources may have been Following are some of Chopin's own strictures, not in small but whose spirit and conception were epochal. his own words unless in quotation marks : Everything depends on good fingering. Harold Schonberg is the senior music critic of the New York Kalkbrenner's method of playing only from the Times.The two parts of this feature (and the article about Leopold Godowsky in the February issue) were adapted front wrist is wrong. Forearm and tipper arm should Mr. Schnnherg's recently completed book,The Great Pianists. be used in addition to the wrist, hand, and fingers. which is scheduled for fall publication by Simon and Schuster.

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THE ESSENTIALS OF A LIBRARY OF RECORDED CONTE M PORARY A DISTINGUISHED YOUNG COMPOSER- CRITIC RECOMMENDS A SELECTION OF THE MOST VITAL TWENTIETH- . CENTURY MASTERPIECES NOWAVAIL- MUS ABLE IN PREFERRED RECORDINGS BY WILLIAM FLANAGAN

THE FOLLOWING survey is concerned with the de- ample, I exclude the Impressionist masters Debussy and velopment of a basic and representative library of Ravel, I am nonetheless aware of the valid arguments that recorded contemporary music. Needless tosay, can be made for their inclusion. To me, the wide public these recommendations represent a quite personal view. acceptance of their major works justifies putting my Probably any critic who is also a composer cannot be limited space at the service of more controversial music. altogether free from the bias, dogmatism, and mild Some readers will no doubt wonder at the omission of schizophrenia inherent Co that position. But I hereby offer certain manifestations of today's highly publicized avant- evidence of my effort to overcome these limitations: sev- garde. I have bypassed them simply because I do not be- eral of the works listed below are not at all to my taste. lieve that they will be found rewarding by the general I include them here because I can deny neither the magni- listener-even with industrious relistening. I cannot in tude of their influence, their admirers in legion, nor the honesty recommend the expenditure of money for stunts, musical gifts involved in their creation. or for musical results that are, as of the present writing, Since the term "modern music" is at best imprecise and less persuasive than the theories that lie behind them- at worst meaningless, the problem of selecting that point no matter how valid these theories may appear to be. in the forward thrust of this century's music at which it Finally, I regret the necessity of omitting certain com- all begins is bound to be a trying one. Although, for ex- posers on the grounds that their more important works

36 HIFI/STEREO REVIEW are unavailable in satisfactory recordings. Roger Sessions possibly the most accomplished vocal composer alive to- and Virgil Thomson are two such musicians who come day. His operas have achieved particular celebrity, but I immediately to mind. know of no more persuasive a demonstration of the composer's brilliant eclecticism than theSpring Spnphony BARTOK:Music for Strings. Percussion, and Celesta. (1949).An extension of the vocal -symphonic concept of HINDEMITH:Mathis der Maler-Symphony. BerlinPhil- Mahler'sDas Lied ton der Erde,it reveals the composer harmonic. Herbert von Karajan cond. ANGEL S 35949 $5.98, 35949 $4.98. at a consistent high point of musical inspiration on a In the light of the twelve-tone revival that has so domi- musical canvas that allows wide application of modern nated the contemporary musical scene during the years tonal techniques. following World War II, both Bela Bartok and Paul CARTER:String Quartet No. 1 (1951).Walden Quartet. CO- Hindemith now occupy relatively conservative positions in LUMBIA ML 5104 54.98. the present scheme of things. Be that as it may, both men Elliot Carter's emergence over the last decade as a com- cultivated extremely personal and vital musical styles. The poser of international stature is a dramatic growth from two twentieth-century masterpieces on this single record share areas of common ground: they are both quite un- flawed; each is sharply characteristic of its composer's distinctive musical personality; and each represents its composer at the peak of his creative vitality.

BERG:Lulu-Suite. Wozzeck (excerpts).Helga Pilarczyk (soprano); London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati cond MERCURY 90278 $5.98, 50278 $4.98. Alban Berg, along with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, was one of the founding fathers of the twelve- tone method. But whereas neither Schoenberg nor Webern has yet been able to gain a foothold with the larger musical public, Berg, by way of a highly communicative post - Romantic musical personality, seems to be the one of the three most likely to succeed in the foreseeable future. His two shattering assaults on the medium of opera,1Vozzeck andLulu.have already engendered a wide international interest. The excerpts here recommended are an excellent introductionto the composer's powerful musicalin- dividuality. And since Berg himself arranged the music into representative concert suites, the listener need not fear the lessening of the original that such synthesis so often involves.

A snapshot of Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) in the 1900's.be- BERG:ConcertO for Violin and Orchestra. (WithBARTOK: Rhapsodies for Violin and Orchestra.)Isaac Stern (violin); fore his public image uasthat of atonalism's stern prophet. New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein cond. COLUMBIA MS 673 $5.98, ML 5773 $4.98. musical beginnings that gave littlepromise of such Surely thisis the greatest of modern violin concertos. spectacular development. If there is a single work to sym- There are few works in the contemporary repertoire, no bolize the arrival of this American composer, itis the matter the medium, that so clearly bear the stamp of musi- String Quartet No. 1. This is sophisticated, complex, dar- cal genius. LikelPozzeck.the Violin Concerto represents ing music with no nonsense about it. the triumph of humanism over method in its personal use of twelve-tone musical organization. COPLAND:Piano Variations (1930); Piano Fantasy(1957). William Masselos (pianist). COLUMBIA MS 6168 $5.98, ML 5568 $4.98. BRITTEN:Spring Symphony.Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Benjamin Britten cond. LONDON OS 25242 Aaron Copland, in the opinion of this writer, is the best $5.98, 5612 $4.98. all-round composer that the United States has yet pro- The music of Benjamin Britten, England's finest living duced. ThePiano Variations,a work that dates from 1930, composer, is one of the most convincing arguments for when the composer was thirty, is perhaps the most original the conservative position in today's musical world. The achievement of a composer whose claim to a personal possessor of an astonishing musical facility, Brittenis style is as strong as any living musician's. I know of no

MAY 1963 37 other hand, works like The Pond or Central Park in the CONTEMPORARY MUSIC Dark, together with some of the songs, are as close to perfection and complete creative fulfillment as anything in this composer's work. Ives the innovator, Ives the musico- work, composed before or since, that makes the sound philosophical counterpart of Emerson and Thoreau, Ives that the Variations does, and the piece contains in embryo the naturalist-all of these phases of the composer's com- all of Copland. plex personality are distilled in these remarkable pieces. The Piano Fantasy, a relatively recent work in a free serial style, is an imposing work of unfettered imagination MILHAUD: La Creation du monde (1923); Suite Provencale. Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch cond. RCA VICTOR -the composer at fifty-six in full command of his craft. LDS 2625 $5.98, LD 2625 $4.98. Two aspects of one of France's most gifted and ingratiat- COPLAND: Appalachian Spring. (With El &Ron Mexico.) New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein cond. COLUMBIA ing composers appear here on a single disc. Darius Mil- MS 6355 55.98, ML 5755 $4.98. haud cannot justly be placed among the twentieth cen- An American work among the few contemporary pieces to tury's important innovators, but there is enough that is enter the standard repertoire, a classic ballet score, and a interesting in his work for it to merit close attention. masterpiece. No representation of American music could La Creation, for example, is one of the first uses of the be complete without it. American jazz idiom in serious composition. The same piece makes liberal use of the simultaneous combination IVES: Washington's Birthday; Hallowe'en; The Pond; Cen- of different keys, called polytonality, the highly personal tral Park in the Dark. Imperial Philharmonic of Tokyo, Mem- bers of the Oslo Philharmonic, William Strickland cond. COM- application of which is a striking characteristic of Mil- POSERS RECORDING, INC. CRI 146 $5.95. haud's style. And even though La Creation had its first Charles Ives is more than just an important American performance in 1923, the same year as the first perform- composer-he is a legend and a phenomenon, as difficult ance of Stravinsky'sOctet, one observes a kind of to explain and to account for as genius itself. For many neoclassicism in some of its attitudes. years a prophet without honor, Ives's public life was that Smite Provencale. although much less novel in its view- of the successful businessman who composed on the side. point, is a work that brings us in close touch with the But this "amateur" composer not only produced a stagger- wonderfully warm lyricism that informs the best of ingly large catalog of musical compositions, but found his Milhaud's work-the quality by which his music, in the way into areas of technical innovation that were later to last analysis, is likely to be remembered. be "discovered" by the European modernists. The most accommodating approach to the recorded Ives POULENC: Gloria in G Major. Rosanna Carteri (soprano); French National Radio -Television Chorus and Orchestra. Georges is probably through the shorter orchestral works. The Pretre cond. (With Concerto in G Minor for Organ, Strings symphonies tend to be a little discursive, uneven, and at and Timpani.) ANGEL S 35953 $5.98. 35953 $4.98. times naive and academic. The Concord Sonata is difficult With England's BenjaminBritten,thelateFrancis to listen to and, for the novice, even indigestible. On the Poulenc was one of the leading composers of vocal music

Aaron Copland (6. 1900). Elliott Carter (1).1908). on the international musical scene. Originally one of Les It is sometimes held that Satie's theories were more en- Six, the group of nose -thumbing iconoclasts who en- tertaining than the music he produced to demonstrate livened the Paris musical world of the Twenties, Poulenc them. This may be because the music itself is, for all its in his maturity was nonetheless conservative and eclectic. surface accessibility,still not understood. Satie's music One cannot mistake the sound of Poulenc's music, even was, and remains, avant-garde in the purest sense: it holds though Ravel, Stravinsky, and even Rachmaninoff can be its place somewhat aloof from the main stream, operates easily pointed to as influences. The Gloria in G is a splen- by its own rules, and cannot in any real sense be imitated. did illustration of the unending lyrical fantasy that ac- Socrate, a symphonic drama, is his masterpiece. Its first counts for the forty years that Poulenc remained one of effect can seem to be one of monotonous prettiness, but France's leading composers. the listener should remember that repetition will reveal the work as a subtle, moving musical experience. PROKOFIEV :Piano Concerto No. 3.(With RAVEL:Con- certo for the Left Hand.)John Browning (piano); Philharmonia SCHOENBERG:Pierrotlussaire.Alice Howland(Sprech- Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf cond.CAPITOLSP 8545 $5.98, P 8545 stimme). GilbertKalish(piano),Louise Burge(flute and $4.98. piccolo), Chester Milosovich (clarinet, bass clarinet), Abram Serge Prokofiev, with far more success than his composer - Loft (violin and viola), George Sopkin (cello).CONCERT -DISC CS 232 $5.98. 232 34.98. colleagues in the Soviet Union, managed to produce a No attempt to represent the high points of twentieth- lifetime of work essentially unsullied by the compromises century music could be complete without including Arn- in taste and quality that so often characterize Soviet art. old Schoenberg's "melodrama" (so designated by the Surely no contemporary composer has given more pleas- composer), Pierrot lunaire. The modalities of German ure to audiences than he, and his piano works, in par- Expressionism-in which the most subjective of personal ticular, have pre-empted a niche in the repertoire second emotions are given free poetic utterance-are somehow in importance to no modern composer's. The Third Con- synthesized in this extraordinary work. Technically, the certo is the most popular of his works in this form and, piece, considering the period of its composition (1912), quite probably, the best. is even more startling. Schoenberg's ultimate preoccupa- SATIE:Socrate(1919). Paris Philharmonic, Rene Leibowitz tion with totally organized chromaticism is here fore- cond.ESOTERICES 510 $4.98. shadowed by his complex musical language. And the If the revolt against Wagnerian Romanticism that char- vocal soloist is called upon to deliver the Giraud text in acterized musical activity in Paris during the first quarter Sprechstimme-a half -sung, half -spoken articulation that of our century could be symbolized by a single name, that in itself evokes the twilight world of Pierrot's fantasies. name would be Erik Satie. His was the figure that Ler Six rallied around, and his deeply held conviction that the SCHOENBERG:Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31 (1928). (With Four Pieces,Op. 27, andCanon, Op. 28, No. I: Serenade idea of music as High Art needed deflation carried power- for Septet and Baritone,Op.24 (1923).)Ensemble, Robert ful weight with such composers as Debussy, Ravel, and, Craft cond. COLUMBIA ML 5244 $4.98. perhaps more directly than any others, with Francis Variations for Orchestra, which is generally understood Poulenc and Virgil Thomson. to be the first true twelve-tone work for orchestra, is one

Dmitri Simstrikorich (h. 1906). Franci.: Poulenc (1899.1963). which dates from1930and was composed for the Boston CONTEMPORARY MUSIC Symphony Orchestra, is a work that friend and foe alike concede to be a masterpiece. I cannot imaginea record of Schoenberg's most impressive musical utterances. The library of contemporary music without it. work consists of an introduction, a separate statement of theme, nine variations, and a finale. Taken in historical VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas perspective, the piece is a landmark in the development Tallis. (With SCHOENBERG: Verkliirte /yacht.) New York Philharmonic, Dimitri Mitropoulos cond.COLUMBIAMS 6007 of a music organized by a system of twelve tones; taken S5.98, ML 5285 $4.98. simply as musical expression, itis one of Schoenberg's England's great master, Ralph Vaughan Williams, was most original, powerful, and convincing claims to major born in 1872 and died in1956.He was somewhat'older status as a creative artist. than Maurice Ravel, with whom he elected to study when he was forty years old. He came to musical maturity rather SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 5. New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein cond. CoLumBin MS 6115 $5.98, M 5445 later in life than is usual, and he composed prodigiously $4.98. into his old age. Although the Fourth Symphony is the The disdain in which the cognoscenti once held the composer's most startling and uncompromising work, the symphonies of TchaikoN sky has now been switched to the Fantasia is more typical. The composer's intense honesty popular symphonic works of Dmitri Shostakovich. There is nowhere to be experienced more keenly than in this may, indeed, be eyebrows raised at the inclusion of this oddly archaic, oddly modern English masterpiece. composer on a list that purports to deal with significant music of the twentieth century. WEBERN: Complete Works. Ensemble, Robert Craft cond. COLUMBIAfour 12 -inch discs K4L 232 $23.98. But Shostakovich, at the height of his popularity in the Forties, was the most famous composer in the West- No matter the individual reaction to the otherworldly ern world, and his work, whatever one may think of it, atmosphere of the strange, vivid microcosms that were has had wide influence both in and out of the Soviet this composer's habitual mode of expression, their major Union. The Fifth Symphony isrepresentative of this influence on contemporary music since the end of the composer's best work. Second World War cannot be denied. None of Webern's more important works is available alone as a single release, STRAVINSKY: Le Sacre du printemps. (With Petrouchka.) the extreme .compression and brevity of his style preclud- Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky cond.COLUMBIA ing such presentation. There would thus seem to be no D3S 614 three 12 -inch discs 514.50. D3L 300 $12.50. alternative but to recommend Robert Craft's four -record Le Sacre du printemps is the ballet score that, with its ap- album of Webern's complete works. pearance in1913,revolutionized the techniques of West- ern music. Harmony, thanks to Stravinsky's method of WEILL: The Three -penny Opera. Lotte Lenya, soloists and simultaneously combining chords from different keys, was chorus,SenderFreiesBerlinOrchestra, Wilhelm Bruckner- Riiggeberg cond.COLUMBIA02S 201 two 12 -inch discs $11.96, never to be the same again. Rhythm, by virtue of Stravin- 02L 257 $9.96. sky's destruction of normal symmetries, was effectively If the lyric theater ever attains to a significant role in our liberated by the single blow of this work. A new dimen- century's musical achievements,it may be that Kurt sion in the use of the instruments of the symphony orches- Weill's Three -penny Opera will one day be regarded as tra was also shaped by the achievement of Le Sacre. In a work quite as significant as either Le Sacre du printemps short, it is a key work in the history of twentieth-century or Pierrot lunaire. For there are many who argue con- music. vincingly that an American lyric theater will grow out of our Broadway musical stage, and that such Weill -in- STRAVINSKY: Symphony of Psalms. Suisse Romande Orches- tra. Ernest Ansermet cond.LONDON CS6031 $5.98, CM 9288 fluenced musical comedies as Richard Rodgers's Pal Joey, $4.98. Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock, or Leonard Despite the fact that Igor Stravinsky's Octet for Wind In- Bernstein's West Side Story are more germane to the struments(1923)is the specific work by which its com- American composer's dream of an indigenous musical poser's particular vision of a new classicism was intro- theater than all the ponderous resuscitations of nineteenth- duced to his somewhat baffled admirers, no one, I think, century opera that the Metropolitan can produce. would suggest that it was the most impressive work to result from these neoclassic preoccupations. Since this aesthetic, in one manifestation or another, was to domi- nate the composer's thinking for approximately thirty William Flanagan, known to New Yorkers as a former Herald Tribune critic, is familiar to our readers for his provocative fea- years, a best example or a most significant illustration is all tures and monthly reviews. Notable among his own compositions but impossible to choose. But theSymphony of Psalms, is The Lady of Tearful Regret, now available on the CRI label.

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This bronze figure of a ram - OF pA headed Pan (fifth century B. C.) comes from Arcadia, tae god's birthplace.

By ROBERT OFFERGELD

WHEN THE Great God Pan appears in the clear - Olympian genealogy. But this poem appeared only in ings of Western myth he is still a crude and the fifth century B.C., and it probably reflects a largely prehistoric figure. He is unmistakably a Greek patriotic gratitude dating from Pan's intervention on divinity but a rather no -account one. At first he is the Athenian side in the battle of Marathon. This centers around the famous appear not to have heard of him at all. At this early Athenian runner Phidippides, who allegedly encoun- point in his career he is ram -headed as well as goat- tered Pan in the mountains and made a bargain with hooved, the frankly bestial deity of a fertility cult him, promising to institute Pan -worship in Athens. In among the mountaineers of Arcadia (a barbaric region return for this long -delayed recognition of his divinity, noted for the drunken and wildly promiscuous orgies the god sabotaged the Persians with his well-known of its inhabitants). psychological trick, unnerving the invading army with Such was Pan's pre -Homeric status in Greece. But the dark and "panic" terror he habitually inflicted on as it happened, this goat -like god-complete with tail, intruders in his mountain solitudes. horns, hooves, shaggy thighs, and unbridled sexuality- Actually, the early mythographers' embarrassment was already known under other names in other cul- had been largely snobbish, not squeamish. It didn't tures, the priests of ancient Egypt claiming for example really disturb anybody that Pan was an obstreperously that he was really the oldest (and logically the most phallic deity :indeed, his handsome father Hermes venerable) of all the gods. (and several other Olympians in Homeric good stand- However, even at the time Herodotus recorded this ing) had shared this lusty trait, one that only became Egyptian claim (in the fifth century B.C.), the more poetically disreputable in the Christian era. highly civilized Greeks were disinclined to admit it. The truth was that the earliest Greek poet-mythogra- BUT primitive Pan unfortunately was ugly :at his phers had been embarrassed by Arcadian Pan. He sim- birth, his mother fled in fright at his beard, his hairy ply wasn't made for epic, and though he received a and half -animal body, and the alarmingly uninfantile sophisticatedly approving press much later (from Plato, noises he made. Even more to the point, he soon proved Theocritus, Ovid, Virgil, Lucian,etal.), neither to be a congenital hick, a goatishly uncouth frequenter Homer nor Hesiod ( ninth and eighth centuries B.C.) of woods and pastures. His chosen associates were so much as mention him. It is true that an apparent youthful rustics of both sexes, goatherds and shepherds, exception to this pointed neglect, the so-called Homeric whose manners left even more to be desired than their Hymn in Pan's honor, praises his "honey -sweet" piping morals, which were next to nonexistent. In sum, Ar- (his bird -calls, for example, put the nightingales to cadian Pan was entirely too much of a clownish rube shame) and finally provides him with a distinguished for the elegant social doings on Mount Olympus, and

MAY 1963 41 Agetpri'44-NO0 .

ARKANSAS PANPIPE:100 A. D.

A1.MOSTunrecognizable CANE musicologist who called Dr. from nineteen cen- TUBES Ford's discovery to our at- turies of corrosion, the ob- tention,thepanpipe was ject illustrated at the right tuned almost exactly in ma- SILVER isa musical instrument, a PLATE jor ninths. The center reed smallreed -and -metalarti- was open and sounded a". fact indicating no mean de- 7.000 -COPPER The outer reeds were tuned gree of civilization in its FLUG JACKET with unequally long cane maker and user. Surviving plugs wound with raffia; one from an unlikely moment in sounded g', the other b"'. time at an even more un- The center reed could be likely place,itisa North silenced with the finger in American panpipe to which order to play only the con- processas- thecarbon-14 LANE sonant tones of g' and b"'. signs the date of 100 A. D., 'UBE PLUG WRAPPED Where did the Arkansas %GS give or take a century. WITH CORD musician come from? And IntermsofAmerican AND what did he play? FIBER time, of course, this date is RIBBON Volumes of conjecture virtually ungraspable, a grey have been inspired by the pre-Columbian void, and the first question. It seems likely imagination of the non -ar- that about 10,000 B. C., not cheologistretreatstothe too long after the last glacial European history books to retreat, his remote ancestors provide it with any tangibil- migrated from Asia across ity at all. Bering Strait and eventually Two episodes in the his- descended the Pacific coast tory of Pan willserve to to Mexico. Later thistall bracket it. About 40 B. C. and shapely race colonized the Roman poet Virgil com- the valleys of the Ohio and posed his famous fourth Ec- the Mississippi, leaving there logueprophesying anew Before restoration (left). the Arkansas panpipe as found thethousandsofgreat order of the ages and dein its owners tomb. The schematic drawing (right) re. mounds-burial sites, altars, claring self-confidently that reds itsconstructionand its system of tuning -plugs. fortifications, and vast ani- nobody would equal his po- mal effigies acres in extent- etic song: "Even Pan," he whichforcenturieshave says, "if matched against me, and even with Arcadia judg- mystified the area's more recent inhabitants and earned ing, would declare himself the loser." To Virgil. the god was this vanished people their generic name: the Hopewell only a literary convention, but approximately two centuries Mound Builders. later, the Greek geographer Pausanias, methodically investi- Their civilization far exceeded that of their Indian de- gating Plutarch's reports of Pan's death, reported that the scendants. They were a Stone Age culture, unfamiliar with god's Greek shrines were still flourishing. smelting, but their beaten metal work, magnificent incised At some point between these two events, the American pottery. (-lay figurines, and ceremonial weapons of obsidian panpipe was used by a nonliterary and highly religious are aesthetically and technically equal to similar artifacts musician living near the future site of Helena Crossing, from Europe and South America. They loved jewels as Arkansas. This musician was quite probably a shaman in personal ornament and carried on a lively transcontinental a chthonic culture, a sort of priestly witch doctor whose trade in fresh -water pearls. functions involved prophecy, healing, sacrifice, and elab- Judging from the structure of his panpipe, and by analogy orate ceremonies honoring the dead. His panpipe was ob- with other cultures, the repertoire of the Arkansas musician viously a cherished possession; in life he wore it suspended was almost certainly based on birdcalls. Bird effigies are from his neck in a fabric wallet, and at his death it was prominentinhisarts and mortuary contrivances, and buried with him in the great memorial mound where it though he doubtless lured birds as a hunter, it is also probable was found (in 1960) by Dr. James A. Ford, Curator of that he imitated them ritually for the ceremonies of a to- North American Archeology at the American Museum of temic society. In any case, the sound of his instrument is Natural History. known to us beyond any doubt. Its plaintive fluting tone In its original state, the panpipe consisted of three reeds was identical with the sound that Pausanias heard at Pan's roughly ten inches long encased in a sheath of expertly Greek shrines, anditcarries us beyond the last horizons beaten copper and provided with a mouthpiece of thin of known antiquity to Asia, the dim pre -Homeric homeland silver plate. According to William W. Suggs, the young that all panpipes remember. Robert Offergeld

"Eli!! 42 HIFI/STEREO REVIEW tural wreckage of the Middle Ages. adult Pan reappears with a Satanic coloration, the horned and hoofed president of secret orgies in the European witch -cults. Eventually, as an anti -industrial earth -spirit, Pan not PAN unexpectedly got a new and enthusiastic run from the nineteenth-century Nature poets. Shelley recounts his musical prowess( Pan reduced Apollo to envious si- not long after his infancy (when his monstrous appear- lence), and Wordsworth personally spotted him, up to ance and characteristic snuffling chuckle had greatly his old scary tricks, in the English woods : delighted the other gods). his attendance in the celes- I heard among the solitary hills tial marble halls was firmly discouraged. Low breathings coming after me and sounds This snub offended young Pan not at all. He was the Of indistinguishable motions, steps laziest creature known, seldom found standing when he Almost as silent as the turf they trod. could lie down (note our current cover).and as a per- Not the least singular tale about Pan is the report manent nonresident of Olympus he had no &vine (given in Plutarch) of his death, the only such demise duties whatever. so that ordinarily he emerged from noted in historical times. In the reign of Tiberius. a sleep only to play his panpipes and seduce nymphs. Greek sailor named Thamus passed the isle of Paxi activities that he managed on one occasion to combine. cnroute to Palodes in Italy. At twilight he heard a Fleeing hisruttish embraces, the chaste nymph "great voice" across the water, bidding him inform the Syrinx got the immortals to change her into a reed (the Italians that "great Pan is dead." The news caused nymph Pitys, under similar circumstances. got herself widespread consternation and Tiberius ordered an in- turned into a fir -tree). Unable to tell which reed among vestigation. The obituary was premature :writing a several was Syrinx, Pan seized a handful and applied century later. Pausanias notes that in his time the god's them to his lips. where his heated breathing at once Greek shrines, altars. and sacred caves were still thriv- produced music. Reed tone has been universally asso- ing, and the rowdy Arcadians, his original followers, ciated with erotic lament ever since (most notably per- still heard his wild piping in the mountains. But his haps in Debussy's L'Apres-midi d'un faun). so that the first -century "death" pretty nearly coincided with the thwarted god presented history simultaneously with Crucifixion, and as portending the end of one world the first wind instrument, its Greek name (syrinx), order and the beginning of another, this irresistibly and its most characteristic idiom. symbolic event attracted numerous later writers-Ra- Among the more celebrated of Pan's conquests were belais, Milton. Schiller, and Mrs. Browning alluding to poor Echo (who had even less luck later with Narcis- it. among others. sus) ; the highly proper Eupheme. nurse of the Muses; A rival theory has long held that the god merely and. most impressive of all, Selene. the Moon herself, found it expedient to go underground, and some unex- who failed to recognize the swarthy god in a fetching pected support may be found for this view on the oppo- disguise of snow-white fleeces. As might be imagined, site page. It is certain at any rate that about the time modesty was not a Pandean attribute ;the god once Tiberius was invesf*ating Pan's "death," somebody boasted that he had coupled vith all the Maenads. an turned up in Arkansas-perhaps the old Arcadian army of wine -crazed women who swarmed after Pan Traveller ?-who played bird -calls on a panpipe. and his immortal friend Dionysus as they triumphantly carried their orgiastic cults into India. The Greek gold coin above (about 3.50 B. C.) portrays a humanized Pan. In Ari.stide !Maas illustration(below) for the DURING these adventures. Pan still much resembled Songs of Horace,Pan has. become Faunus,a clean -limbed Roman. his old Arcadian self. But as later represented in classic art, he inevitably became humanized and prettified. In numerous Hellenistic bronzes he is a dancing youth, still a lascivious nymph -chaser but much too handsome to be feared or resisted. In Roman art and poetry he becomes Faunus, an altogether gentler pastoral deity ( though still promiscuous). And in the classical revival of the early Renaissance, in much the same way that Eros becomes Cupid. Pan becomes a mischievous laughing infant, a sort of grotesquely decorative Panlet. Elsewhere, however, lurking amidst the half -pagan cul-

MAY 1963 -I3 COMPETENT HI-FI REPAIR WORK ISN'T EASY TO COME BY. IS THE MANUFACTURER, WARRANTY STATION, OR LOCAL SERVICE SHOP YOUR BEST BET? HERE'S WHAT YOU CAN DO TO INSURE COMPETENT HANDLING OF YOUR EQUIPMENT.

SERVICE...WITH A SMILE? By IVAN BERGER

HIGH-FIDELITY servicing is a headache for every- plicable), the best policy for the nontechnicalperson one-for the manufacturer, for the dealer, and is hands off.Professional maintenance is definitely most of all, for the consumer. Breakdowns can recommended. David Muirhead of New York's Audio range from cases of subtle distortion to the smoke - Workshop points out :"The owner of high-fidelity billowing catastrophe, but in any of these, the repair equipment expects it to operate forever withinnarrow of the component cannot be considered complete until limits of perfection. A professional checkout, about the unit meets its original specifications. Getting such once a year, is the only way to achieve this. You ex- critical servicing done competently is a far bigger pect to service a car regularly ; quality audio equip- problem than getting a washing machine fixed-and ment should be given at least the consideration you even washer repairs are a problem these days. give a quality car-a high-fidelity system can be nearly There are some precautions an audiophile can take as expensive, and even more complex." to lengthen the functional life of his system. The most But when components do fail, what can you do important item-proper ventilation-is so simple that about it? If your unit fails during its warranty period there is no excuse for failing to take care of it. -anywhere from thirty days to five years from pur- "Placement of components is of utmost importance chase, depending on the manufacturer-your repair in ensuring stable operation," says Fred Mergner, chief will be partly or completely paid for by the manufac- engineer of Fisher Radio. "Even if units are designed turer.(Perhaps the most generous warranty -repair to take a large amount of self -generated heat, they service is provided by Acoustic Research, which re- will be more stable under normal temperature condi- pairs without charge any AR speaker within five years tions. All the temperature -compensated circuits in the of the purchase date, and even pays shipping charges world cannot prevent some drift in an FM tuner under to and from the factory.) Some dealers extend or excessive temperature conditions. Component lifeis amplify the manufacturer's warranty and provide also shortened by excessive heat. service in the dealer's own repair shop, or at his ex- "The instructions that accompany our units specify pense in a local warranty station. placement that will allow sufficient air movement Though warranties are issued by the manufacturer, around the unit, and the proper ducting away of heat. who is responsible for fulfilling them, the dealer can It is a basic design philosophy with us to place the and should help. How much help you can expect prob- parts that generate the most heat-output tubes, for ably correlates directly with how much discount you example-along the rear edge of our units, exposed obtained when you bought your equipment. Obvi- to a greater flow of cool air, and away from tempera- ously, if the dealer made a ten -dollar profit on your ture -sensitive parts of the circuit." hundred -dollar purchase, he can't afford to devote Transistorization of audio equipment will not end any time to no -charge servicing. As a matter of fact, this problem, adds Mergner. "There is a popular mis- even if the dealer were to pay the cost of returning conception that transistors do not generate heat. Al- your defective unit to the factory, it would cut his though they do generate less heat than tubes, they profit margin disastrously. Most dealers will make are more temperature -sensitive, so ventilation is still simple, fast repairs to expedite the return of the unit critical with them-in fact, even more critical." to the customer, but itis simply not economically Beyond insuring proper ventilation, and making feasible for a dealer to sell at a discount and render periodic checks of bias and balance settings( if ap- free service. Many retailers, in fact, feel they are better

44 HIFI/STEREO REVIEW off not attempting to do major servicing. Says Sy ring in the field, and enabling the factory to take Teitler of Newmark & Lewis. a Long Island appliance - corrective measures. Some also send factory engineers store chain with a large high-fidelity department : or other representatives to visit their warranty stations "No dealer-I don't care who he is-should do deep regularly. A warranty station may represent several servicing. He can't have the specialized facilities for manufacturers at once, and most do out -of -warranty it. Except for minor repairs, we rely entirely on manu- service on equipment of virtually any make. facturers and their local warranty stations." A dealer cannot serve as a warranty station. This There arc a few exceptions to this. One is the Audio is because the manufacturers realize that no dealer Exchange, which operates a chain of high-fidelity would refer his customers to another dealer for service. stores in the New York City area and specializes in And by the same token, warranty stations are forbid - the sale of reconditioned audio equipment. Since the c! 'n to sell equipment. Audio Exchange puts its own ninety -day warranty on all equipment-both new and used-extensive service 0.s cr. the warranty period is past, where do you go facilities are a must. NvIlen you need service? Actually, your area of choice Whether your dealer maintains a full service de- opens up :you can have your unit serviced by the partment or not (and most do not). if you live in or manufacturer, the warranty station, your dealer, other near a major city, there will probably be a factory - high-fidelity service shops, or even a TV repairman. warranty station somewhere near you. Most manufac- How do you choose? turers have recognized that although returning a de- First, your local TV serviceman is out. He is prob- fective unit to the factory ensures top-notch service, bably no more equipped with the instruments and it also involves shipping, delay, expense, and risk of know-how to fix your stereo tuner than he is to over- transit damage, so they have set up warranty stations haul a computer-though he would probably be the as local outposts of their own service departments. last to admit it. To maintain quality performance, These stations are equipped to make in -warranty re- factory -caliber service is mandatory. pairs tinder factory terms and to factory standards. As an example of what this level of service entails Warranty stations are independent organizations when units are returned to Dynaco, the factory re- specializing in high-fidelity service, selected by manu- ports that : "After repair. we test the unit in the same facturers after investigation of their knowledge, test way a factory -wired new unit is checked. We will not equipment, and reputation. Once selected, warranty release a unit that does not meet specifications. The stations are required to maintain a stock of replace- sole exception is power amplifiers, where worn output ment parts and all necessary test equipment. includ- tubes may be perfectly satisfactory yet not put out ing whatever instruments might be required by new quite the full power of a new set. Here, to save the audio developments. Both Scott and Fisher, for ex- customer money. we do not replace them unless spe- ample, made multiplex generators available to their cifically requested. But we do guarantee that the unit warranty stations soon after the FCC's approval of will meet all its specifications if a new matched pair stereo FM broadcasting. of tubes is installed." Dynaco performs such service Most manufacturers require that their local service free on factory -wired units, and at a flat fee of five stations report all troubles and repairs in detail, per- to ten dollars per unit on kits. Major parts replaced mitting engineering analysis of the difficulties occur- beyond the warranty period are charged for at stand -

MAY 1963 45 SERVICE ...WITH A SMILE? service. Add a wow -and -flutter meter for tape -recorder and turntable service, and you have a well-equipped shop-and several thousand dollars worth of equip- and prices, and small components (resistors, paper ment. No shop will invest this much unless they know capacitors, etc.) are usually free. how to use this equipment :in itselfitis proof of This level of service is difficult to get, and expensive serious intentions. once the warranty period has ended. There are sev- The shop with such equipment is usually proud of eral reasons for this. "A competent serviceman," says it. As John Boulton, an independent audio consultant, Harry Kolbe of Manhattan's Audio Workshop, "must puts it : "In general, the service areas of a repair shop be a quasi -engineer, and quasi -engineers rarely go into should not be a dark secret. Just as a good restaurant service work. Furthermore, you cannot do competent should be proud to show you its kitchen, a good service hi-fi repair without test equipment-and very sophisti- shop should (time permitting) show you its service cated equipment at that. We feel that a unit is not area, if it isn't in plain sight already." repaired until it meets manufacturer's specifications, and very good equipment is needed just to determine IF NO nearby service station measures up, your only these. The amount of test equipment required also recourse is the factory. Before you return a unit for explains why we prefer to do all our repair work in repair, read the instruction manual carefully tosee the shop, rather than in the customer's home." how the manufacturer wishes you to proceed. Hemay If you live in one of the large metropolitan centers, suggest some nearer service station, send you shipping there may be several high-fidelity service shops in your cartons, or even send you a part that will enable you area. The problem, then, is to choose the one best to repair the unit yourself. qualified to service your unit. Unfortunately, to evalu- If factory packing materials are not available, wrap ate a shop, you must be fairly knowledgeable in mat- the unit carefully and put it in a box large enough to ters of test equipment and service approach yourself. allow at least three inches of crushed paper or other There are, however, some pointers that can steer cushioning material on all sides. Pack paper around you toward the right service shop. Short of the fac- tubes to cushion them in their sockets, or wrap them tory, the best place for post -warranty service of your loose in individual mantles of crushed paper. Any components is the warranty station authorized by your parts likely to work loose in transit should be secured unit's manufacturer. These shops will be familiar with or wrapped separately. the problems and requirements of your particular Be sure to include a packing slip if any parts are unit. And a manufacturer's approval of a warranty detached, and state if any were not shipped. It is wise station is a pretty good guarantee of their competence. to enclose your name and address, and a description If no station near you does warranty work for your of your difficulties, to ensure that your unit will not brand of component, the warranty stations of other go astray, and that the service department knows what manufacturers are your next best bet. After them, it is up against. consultation with your dealer or correspondence with In high fidelity, as in most quality fields, the manu- the factory may turn up somebody. facturers are seriously concerned with their responsibilities to their customers. Their products are usually HERE are touchstones for the competent service built well, and if difficulties do arise, most manufac- shop. These are the items of equipment that a tech- turers do everything in their power to ensure swift nician must have to do competent work. Basic in- correction through free technical advice, factory serv- struments such as the vacuum -tube voltmeter, tube ice facilities, and networks of local warranty -service tester, and oscilloscope are found in nearly all service stations. High-fidelity servicing is a problem, but even shops. But the high-fidelity service organization must in this day of increasingly sophisticated circuits and have such specialized items as a low -distortion sine - rigorous specifications, itis still possible to keep your wave generator, a distortion analyzer (harmonic, in- equipment in factory -new condition. With good care termodulation, or both), and an audio VTVM and good luck, your system should be working as well capable of measuring signals in the millivolt range. years from now as it did the day it left the factory. FM tuner alignment requires all of the above plus a precision FM frequency generator. And stereo FM, of course, requires a multiplex generator. Some shops align tuners in a shielded cage to ensure that stray interference will not cause errors. While a cage is not Iran Berger, an occasional writer on audio topics, has written an absolute necessity, its presence is a sign that the for both U. S. and foreign publications. Professionally. Mr. shop is taking pains to give you the best possible Berger is a media representatire for sereral foreign periodicals.

46 HIFI/STEREO REVIEW A FORUM FOR ELIMINATING for about half an hour, for itmay take THE MOST COMMON AND that long for the shellac orwax inside OFTEN MOST EXASPERATING the transformer to soften. If the tight- PROBLEMS OF STEREO HI -Fl ening procedure does not help, and the hum is really bothersome, you may hare SOUND AND TIlE QUERYV BY LARRY KLEIN to replace the transformer. Write to the factory for advice; it may offeryou a no -chargereplacementeventhough Stylus Pressure rower the bandpass, the greater the your set is out of warranty. QI .1111 11,111.4 aShure M7D ear- phase shift within the circuit will be, .tridge ina Garrard Type A and the more difficulty the tuner will Speaker Specs changer.I do not know the proper have in putting out a distortion -free, QI'vebeen going over speaker tracking force to use. Several settings, well -separated stereo signal. Since few .specifications trying to decide ranging from 3 to 51/2 grams, have been older tuners are free of phase shift, most onEl. system to use with my new hi-fi recommendedto me. Which is right? manufacturers compensate the adaptor rig. I can't understand how a twenty- DEAN STARRFr circuits for use with their particulardollar full -range speaker can have es- Rochester, N.Y. tuners. Therefore, your best bet is usual- sentiallythe same specificationsas ly an adaptor of the same brand as speakers costing four and five times as AIn general, when in doubt as to your tuner. much. Are the figures lying, or are the the proper stylus pressure to be In any case, it is a good idea to check liars figuring? used in a specific setup, set the pressure with the manufacturer on the com- PAUL. SIDNEY for the lightest figure that will cleanly patibility of the two units before pur- Burlington,Ia. reproduce heavily recorded passages, chasing the adaptor. It is possible to such asorchestral crescendos, on a adjust the circuits of mixed -brand AI assume the main specification stereo record. With your present equip- tuners and adaptors to work together, .you are ment, 3 to 4 grams is about right. referringtoisIre - go, v response, since this is practically Roar in the Background the only technical spec giveninmost QWhen I listen to records, there is speaker advertisements. When manu- .afaint,low-pitched,steady facturers claim that their speaker has a roar in the background that appears response from 30 to 15,000 cycles, for whenever the volume is turned fairly example, they usually mean that if you high. Normally this is masked by the were to feedinan audio signal any- music, but on quiet passages it is quite where between 30 and 15,000 cycles, the evident.Ihave used several record but the technician doing this must have speaker would respond. It might twitch players, and all have the same problem. both a multiplex generator and ade- inaudibly at the low end and distort JOSEPH WEIGLEIN quate know-how in this rather complex wildly on the highs-but itwill re- Milwaukee, Wis. technical area. spond. You will note that there is usually no statement as to the frequency re- AWhat you refer to as a "faint Power -Transformer Hum sponse in plus or minus so many deci- QI roar" is probably thermal noise ain 1)0111ciedI))a hum in my bels. Furthermore, there is usually no caused by the tubes or resistors in the . amplifier that does not seem to statement as to the distortion that the early stages of your preamp. I would be the usual sort of hum. Itis a me- speaker will produce. In short, speaker suggest that you check the tubes in the chanical sound that occurs after the specifications presented by most manu- preamp stages by substituting known amplifier has been on for abouthalf an facturers are so inadequate as to he good ones. If a tube is not at fault, a hour and does not come through the meaningless. This problem will probab- noisy resistor is probably causing the speakers. What is causing the problem ly continue to exist until the high-fidel- trouble. and how do I remedy it? ity industry settles on some rating stand- PHILIP TURCHIN ards for speakers, as they have done for Stereo -FM Conversion Baden, Pa. other audio equipment. QI ha\ caulNItonr thatisabout .four years old, and I have been AThe hum is probably originating Upgrading a Williamson

considering adding a stereo adaptor to in your amplifier's power trans- Q1 have an (delI 2-N\tt William- it. Is there any way of knowing whether former. If an insufficient number of .sonamplifier made bythe my tuner will provide acceptable re- laminations were installed in the trans- Radio Craftsman Company. I under- sults? What would be the best brand former during its assembly or if the stand that this can be easily converted of adaptor to use? bolts passing through the transformer into a 25 -watt amplifier. Where can I ROBERT LATTIN are not sufficiently tight, electromag- get further information on this? Los Angeles, Calif. netic effects will cause the laminations IRWIN GREENE to buzz at a 60 -cycle rate. If you are in New York, N.Y. AThere are several factors to con- luck, the problem may be easy to solve. .sider in your choice of adaptors. Depending upon the transformer type, AThe output transformer should For adequate stereo reception, the de- you Wright be able to tighten the hold- .be replaced with a Dynaco tector circuit in your tuner should have ing bolts using a heavy-duty screwdriver transformer, available (with complete a bandwidth of at least 1 megacycle and a pair of pliers. It is best to try this conversion information) from Dynaco and preferably 2 megacycles. The nar- after the amplifier has been operating Inc., 39/2 Powelton .4ve., Phila., Pa.

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48 HIFI /STEREO REVIEW Ti. E limber man in the Stetson hat has the regular, suitability for making biscuits. and certainly suggestive chiseled features of the Mysterious Stranger in of the special effects of Bluegrass music. the classic western. Although his face seems ex- The Foggy Mountain Boys make four to five per- pressionless, it has a flickering trace of a mocking smile. sonal appearances a week. accumulating an average His hands move on a banjo with the seemingly effort- weekly log of 2.500 miles. Playing in firehouses, police - less precision of the most dangerous quick -draw spe- department recreation halls, high-school auditoriums, cialist. Except for his swift fingers, Earl Scruggs's body drive-in theaters, and churches. Flatt and Scruggs pre- is motionless until certain moments of emphasis. when sent family programs that encompass hoedowns, sacred he leans lithely forward on his toes or dips slightly at songs, comic monologues. and old mountain ballads. the knees. Their rural audiences range from pre-school children Beside Scruggs stands his partner. Lester Flatt. Bulk- to such fervent long-time fans as a seventy -six -year -old ier, older, and less taut, Flatt strums the guitar and Tennessecan who has been known to walk ten miles sings with the confidence of a man who gets paid for for a chance to carry Earl Scruggs's banjo. As a rule, doing what he knows he does well. As cascades of these Southern audiences sit quietly, applaud briefly, deftly ornamented melody come from Scruggs's banjo, and signify their approval by inviting Flatt and Scruggs Flatt unfolds a ballad of disaster with deadpan under- back again and again. For example, the troupe has statement. Simultaneously, a violinist, a bassist, and played Sandy Ridge, North Carolina, twenty times. two other guitarists move in and out of the front line. The thrust of Bluegrass is even beginning to reach Sometimes they add their voices to the close, high- the audience that lies somewhere between the country pitched, lonesome harmonies. During an instrumental, folk and the cultural hipsters. Flatt and Scruggs per- each musician takes turns in sizzling breaks and longer form the theme for CBS's comedy hit of the current solos until all of them join in a climax that brings the television season, The Beverly Hillbillies, and make tune to a dizzying end. occasional appearances on the show and on other net- This exhilarating music is called Bluegrass. and its work programs, including Tennessee Ernie Ford's foremost practitioners are the Foggy Mountain Boys- eupeptic seminar in human relations. leaders Scruggs and Flatt. guitarist -singer Billy Powers, fiddler Paul Warren, bassist Jake Tullock, and guitarist AT THE center of the Bluegrass explosion is Earl Buck Graves. Bluegrass is a form of improvised country Scruggs, a taciturn thirty -eight -year -old banjo virtu- music that is rapidly becoming a key to cultural status oso from Flint Hill, North Carolina. The opening among collegians and intellectuals who are distant both chapter in the Bluegrass saga was written when Scruggs in miles and in milieu from Southern folk sources. came, in 1945, to Nashville, the leading marketplace Sophisticates who used to dismiss all country music as of the nation's country music. By that time, country hillbilly corn now collect albums by Flatt, Scruggs, and music had begun to fuse with elements of popular the Foggy Mountain Boys. attend their concerts, and music. This process of homogenization has intensified refer knowingly to Scruggs -style banjo -picking. Last greatly in the past decade, and the result is more and December Flatt and Scruggs made their first appear- more of what Nashville's recording directors call up- ance at New York's Carnegie Hall --the day after their town country music. Bluegrass, however, remains di- third engagement at Jordan Hall in Boston. rectly and unmistakably linked to mountain fiddle - Down home in the Southeastern states-while rec- and -banjo dance music, religious tunes, and centuries - ords by the Foggy Mountain Boys are being analyzed old Anglo-Saxon ballads that have been transmuted on Northern FM stations and in scholarly folklore in the rural fastnesses of the South into a distinctively journals-farmers in Tennessee and neighboring states American folk expression. tune to WSM, Nashville, at 5 :45 every morning to be Because of the largely traditional nature of its reper- recharged by Flatt and Scruggs's Bluegrass for another toire, the all -string Bluegrass band includes no electri- day in the fields. Country folk from Huntington, West fied instruments, whose sound is too artificial for the Virginia, to Meridian, Mississippi, watch Flatt and Bluegrass stylists. Above all, Bluegrass is characterized Scruggs's weekly syndicated television show, and the by the bristling presence of the five -string banjo, played Foggy Mountain Boys also have their own half-hour Scruggs -style.Bluegrass,infact, came into being portion of WSM's four -and -a -half-hour Saturday night through the rebirth of the banjo as a more melodically Grand Ole Opry, which has a listening audience of resourceful and brilliant instrument than it ever was two and a half million. For the past nine years, this previously in its long American history. At the end of radio and television activity by Flatt and Scruggs has the nineteenth century, the less incisive four -string been sponsored by Martha White Mills, purveyors of tenor banjo, with its larger head, shorter neck, and cake mixes, feed for stock, and "the flour with the hot heavier strings, began to replace the more challenging rize in it"-a slogan referring to the flour's special five -string banjo. By 1930, even country bands were

?NAV1961 at) BLUEGRASS abandoning the five -string banjo, and a decade later manufacturers had stopped making it. A few refuges for the five -string instrument did remain. One of the areas most resistant to the change was around Flint Hill, near Shelby, North Carolina. "The town wasn't even on the map," says Scruggs, who was born there in 1924. "There was no post office. Just two stores, a grade school, and a church." But there were a lot of banjos. In Scruggs's own family, his father, three sisters, and two brothers all played the five -string banjo. As he puts it in his ruminative drawl, with long gaps between his words. "I just grew up around a banjo." He began with the traditional, two - finger, claw -hammer approach to the instrument. This technique produced a powerful attack, but it was rhythmically stiff and melodically constricted. When he was about twelve, Earl remembers, "I was just sitting around, not especially conscious of what I was doing, when all of a sudden, I noticed I was

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At twenty-one, Earl left home, going first to Knox- ville and then to Nashville. By the time he arrived in Nashville, he had perfected what turned out to be a revolutionary way of banjo -playing. Robert Shelton, folk -music critic of the New York Timer, explains Scruggs's picking as a "heavily syncopated style that sharply accents the melodic line to make it stand out in a shower of notes. Moving at gasping tempos, it is dominated by a brilliant technical shine." In Nashville in December of 1945, Scruggs joined mandolinist Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys. According to Scruggs, until he arrived Monroe's was a conventional country group, and the epithet "Bluegrass" Fiddler Paul ITitrren lends support to Earl Scruggs and Lester reflected only Monroe's Kentucky origins. Monroe, Flat: during a Foggy Mountain Boys stint for Crand Ole Opry. however, insists that he had already established the fundamental Bluegrassstyleyears before.In any picking with three fingers. My mother encouraged me case, Scruggs's three -finger style markedly energized to go beyond the usual two -finger style." Flint Hill and Monroe's music, but there was then no specific name the surrounding countryside was one of the few places for the more sinewy and authentic country string music in the South in which several banjoists had already that resulted. It wasn't until the early Fifties, in fact, "lucked up on" (Earl's term) a three -finger approach. that radio stations began to use the term Bluegrass for Among them were his older brother, Junie, and such the kind of music Flatt and Scruggs were playing, in professionals as Snuffy Jenkins, Fisher Hendley, and order to distinguish it from the increasingly motley Smith Hammett. Scruggs absorbed their essentially nature of most other country recordings. ragged and choppy style, but gradually developed a Already in Bill Monroe's unit when Scruggs joined much more flowing, resilient manner with his own it was Lester Flatt, a country singer with an unusually version of the three -finger technique, so that the banjo supple voice. Born in 1914 near Sparta, White County, could be a lead as well as a background instrument. Tennessee. Flatt had participated in "singin's" since

51) HIFI/STEREO REVIEW boyhood. and had also been a soloist in a local Baptist Mountain Boys-Earl's wife, Louise, had become their church. Flatt turned professional in 1939 on a Roan- business manager-at the Scruggs home in Madison, a oke, Virginia, radio station. For the next five years, sprawling suburb seven miles from Nashville. By 1958. he wandered through North Carolina and Kentucky, Flatt and Scruggs had started going to school up finally advancing to the ultimate testing ground, Nash- North-to teach. ville, in 1944. After working three years as congenial Mrs. Scruggs, a slender, attractive woman from colleagues in Bill Monroe's band, Flatt and Scruggs Lebanon. Tennessee, has been a partisan of country formed their own unit, the Foggy Mountain Boys. music all her life. Since her marriage to Earl, she has Like Scruggs, Flatt has always preferred traditional become expert in the history of the banjo as well as in country -music ways. "Many of the songs we do." Flatt the development of Bluegrass. A soft-spoken woman. says with satisfaction, "I've known practically all my Mrs. Scruggs is also an astute and efficient manager life. We have hundreds, I guess even thousands, of and booker. Her office is in the Scruggs's unpretentious. them. They last so long because there's a lot of real comfortably rambling ranch house, where her hus- life in this stuff, and quite a bit of history. Then. when band's three banjos may usually be found underneath Earl came along and added sharper flavor and more his bed. Although more and more calls are coming to drive to the old material, we had a way to bring people Mrs. Scruggs from other parts of the country, her back to real country sounds." husband asserts that the group will never spend the Flatt and Scruggs roamed through the South during larger part of its time outside the South. the next four years, adding to their popularity and "It's like a dream come true to see how our music changing the base of their operations as their record- is taking hold in places I'd never expected it to. But ings picked up adherents in new regions. The adver- just as we've never been willing to alter our course to tising sachems of Martha White Mills discovered the accommodate rock -a -billy, semi -pop, and allthose Foggy Mountain Boys in Knoxville in 1953, and signed other moves away from what country music o.ight to

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them up for Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, the most be, we're not going to leave the people who made us. effective institution for building and maintaining a After all, they're people who don't change their minds musical reputation in the South. Daily radio shows about what they like. We're not about to forget that and a weekly television program followed, and by the the core of our fans are people who get up early in the r mid -Fifties, Flatt and Scruggs were established as the morning and bake a lot of biscuits." pacesetters of Bluegrass, a style then beginning to be Heightened popularity and prestigious trips to col- widely copied. leges do not appear to have changed Flatt and Scruggs. Gradually, the Bluegrass music of Flatt and Scruggs Although the income of each is estimated to be at began to attract Northern folk -oriented youngsters least $100,000 a year. the only major sign of increased who were learning to distinguish between traditional consumption in their lives is their acquisition of land. mountain music and its commercial offspring. College Lester now owns three farms, totalling more than eight folk societies began to get in touch with the Foggy hundred acres, in White County, some ninety miles

MAY1963 51 cial rapport. "For something that's so easily understood when it's heard." Jake Tullock says. "this Bluegrass BLUEGRASS music is hard to play." A couple of months ago, a Nashville fiddler who had worked with many of the best-known country -music groups substituted for an east of Nashville. Earl and his father-in-law own a ailing Foggy Mountain Boy. "I can sandy [fake] the 200 -acre farm in Lebanon. Tennessee. music anywhere else," he complained after the first Since 1950, Flatt and Scruggs have recorded exclu- night. "But I can't with you boys. It's too damn tough." sively for Columbia. In country music, the equivalent Although they are at first impression rather reserved, of a popular hit sells a quarter of a million discs. Flatt Flatt. Scruggs. and their tightly knit unit do not dis- and Scruggs have not yet reached that figure with any play signs of the prickly insularity that is supposed to of their releases, but they do average sales of 60,000 be characteristic of country folk of North Carolina and to 100.000 for every single they put out, andtheir Tennessee. But itis true that Earl and Lester only records are seldom deleted from the active catalog. rarely break into guffaws or even smile very broadly. "Having a hitisrealfine." Earl observes vith "Most of the time," says Frank Jones. a young Cana- customary deliberateness. "but you're gambling if you dian on Columbia Records' Nashville staff. "the only always try for them, and if you don't make it, you're way I can tellif Earl is laughing is by looking into hurt. We keep going along steady, and we're satisfied his eyes." that way." There is a continual by-play of dry barbs between the musicians as the troupe journeys into the hill FLArr and Scruggs's record sales have been increasing country inits converted Trailways coach, and Flatt year by year as Bluegrass spreads acrossthe country. and Scruggs are not spared by their sidemen. "Naw, Their long-playing albums now sell nearly 50,000 each they ain't got big -headed," a rural fan said during -a profitable number. particularly inview of the low intermission at a concert in the small town of Moulton, overhead of a Flatt and Scruggs date, which involves Alabama. "They don't change no more than their no arrangers. vocal choirs, or largeorchestras. sound does." Flatt and Scruggs insist on as natural a sound as It was a chilly November night in Moulton, a hun- possible for their recordings, so their discs are unusual dred and twenty miles south of Nashville. The local among Nashville products because they have solittle cotton crop had been bitterly disappointing, and the echo. The Foggy Mountain Boys record with ease and crowd talked of bank notes that could not be met. But speed. "They've been together so long," Don Law. some seven hundred of thelocalcitizenry, from Columbia's country -music director in Nashville, notes, squalling babies to old people. had gathered at the "that they don't have to say much to each other. It Coliseum. Just before intermission, as is the custom on just flows out." No take of a tune is ever exactly the such rural trips, a dozen certificates were handed out same, because all the Foggy Mountain Boysplay by at random to the audience. Each coupon entitled the ear. "One advantage to not readingmusic," Earl recipient to five or ten pounds of Martha White flour Scruggs says with a quarter -smile, "is that with nobody free. "Like I say," remarked Earl Scruggs. allowing else's notes in the way, you're always playing what himself a smile, "our fans bake a lot of biscuits." you feel." Earl Scruggs frequently underlines his conviction that a Bluegrass band must age before it can he at its best. Except for newcomer Powers. the present Foggy Nat Hentoft,author of the bookThe Jazz Life,has written much Mountain Boys have been with the group for nine or on jazz. folk. mid country music. To prepare this article. he travelled with the Foggy Mountain Boys on a Southeasterntour. ten years. Mr. Hentoff is also a contributing editor of Hin/STEREReview. "You'd be surprised." says Scruggs. "how few country stars keep a regular unit together. Most ofthe leaders work hard to get a particular sound on their records, but then they go out on the road by themselves Recordings by the Foggy Mountain Boys and pick up local musicians as they come through each With the Foggy Mountain Boys. HARNIONV 111.7250. town. That doesn't make sense musically. No one or Songs of Glory. COLUMBIA CS 8221, CL 1424. two persons can he the entire show. It takesthe whole Foggy Mountain Boys. CoLu UBIA CS 8364, CL 1564. Songs of the Famous Carter Family. COLUMBIA CS hand to make it work." 8464, CL 1664. Because the art of Bluegrass requires intricate col- Folk Songs of our Land. COLUMBIA CS 8630, CL lective improvisation at racing tempos, Bluegrass musi- 1830. cians must combine considerable virtuosity with a spe-

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CLASSICAL UNBLEMISHED ELOQUENCE IN STRAUSS'S METAMORPHOSEN An expressive and poignant memorial for a vanished European grandeur

RICHARD STRAUSS'S Metamorphosen, under Otto Klemperer's baton, makes this new Angel disc, in my view, a candidate for the company's Great Record- ings of the Century seriesin the future. The initial impulse behind the eighty -year -old composer's writing of the work was the destruction, in a 1943 air raid, of the Munich Opera, where the composer had learned his craft as a young man. What began as an elegiac adagio for strings eventually became a magnificent study in thematic transformation built around a motive much like that of the Funeral March of Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony. The work grew expressively to the dimensions (4 a poignant memorial for the Europe that passed away with World War II. Otto Klemperer's rise in musical stature coincided with the between -the -wars era, and in this recorded performance there is no mistaking his close identification with the emotional substance of the Metamorphosen. Indeed, for comparable eloquence, I can call to mind only a live performance by Bruno Walter and the New York Phil- I I ARD STRAUSS Magnificent tonal tapestry harmonic. What is more, Klemperer's feel for polyphonic line and large-scale musicalarchitecture is ideal in this music, for he clarifies every detail of Strauss's cunningly woven tonal tapestry and thereby heightens its expressive content. Angel's recording is absolutely first-rate, conveying unblemished the intensity and grandeur of Klemperer's reading. The Death and Transfiguration performance is a lesser achievement. The opening pages are superbly atmospheric, but the (continued overleaf)

MAY1963 53 remainder fails to live up to the promise of the opening's intensity, ensemble polish, and properly balanced sound. In many of the tutti episodes, string tone lacks presence and brasses seem overprominent. The result is not altogether satisfying. Like Saint-Saens's "Organ" Symphony, Strauss's tone poem is convincing to today's listeners only when played with the utmost virtuosity. intensity, and cumulative power. Reiner on RCA Victor or Szell on Epic come closer to the mark than does Klemperer. In spite of this, run. do not walk, to your nearest record shop and buy this Metamorphosen. It is a musical experience you will not soon forget. David Hall

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LEONARD BERNSTEI Through clarity, a necessary tension A BLOOD -CURDLING REALIZATION OF describe its effect by the musical resources that its MILHAUD'S CHOEPHORES composer has put to work for the piece, although itisfiercely dissonant and clangorous. But its Savage and unique sound in a power lies ultimately with the near -pagan vio- forceful reading by Bernstein lence that the composer has brought to his mu- The listener who encounters it SINCE DARIUS MILHAUD'S stage works are for the first time is not likely soon to forget it. little known in the United States, his frequently Bernstein's performance is a real blockbuster. proclaimed reputation as one of the major figures Since his way with music of this sort is intuitive, in twentieth-century composition must be a little one would look for a forceful reading. What sur- puzzling to those who know only the Suite Pt o- prises is the extraordinary clarity of detail that vencalle , let us say. or even La Creation du monde. has been achieved in a work whose textural opac- The lyrical Milhaud, the chic Milhaud, the ity is almost legendary in musical circles. And this elegant Milhaud. delicious as these phases of the same sharpness of detail brings a necessary ten- composer's musical personality can be. do little sion to music that, in its insistence on huge poly- to prepare one for the Milhaud of this blood- tonal harmonic masses, can too easily go all slug- curdling and intense realization of Le.c Choe- gish and lumbering. phores (The Libation Bearers)by Leonard A couple of minor reservations : Vera Zorina's Bernstein, the New York Philharmonic, and Co- reading of the spoken incantation is rather less lumbia's group of excellent solo performers. For subtle and accumulative than Claude Nollicr's this is the Milhaud of the big gesture and the for Igor Markevitch's version on Epic. And, at tragic evocation. least on my phonograph, the choral sound tends Les Choephores is a Paul Claudel adaptation to distortion when the dynamics move much be- of the second play of The Oresteia, the trilogy by yond forte. But, this aside, the recording and per- the Greek dramatist Aeschylus on the Electra - formance are both spectacular achievements. Orestes tragedy. Milhaud's score for it. far from William Flanagall being mere incidental music, is a major artistic ® 0 MILHAUD: Les Choephores. Vera Zorina conception unto itself. And the sound it makes (speaker), a Choephore; McHenry Boatwright (bari- remains quite unlike any other in the annals of tone), Orestes; Irene Jordan (soprano), Electra; Nem contemporary music. This is music so savage and York Schola Cantorum, Virginia Babikian (soprano), Hugh Ross(director); New York Philharmonic, so intense that it seems more like an upheaval Leonard Bernstein cond. COLUMBIA MS 6396 $5.98, than a calculated work of art. It is not enough to ML 5796 $4.98.

54 HIFI/STEREO REVIEW Jungle, the sensuality of Les Fleurs Africaines *****JAZZ ***** and Warm Valley, the dark yearning of Solitude, and the mocking wit of Wig Wise. As a public ELLINGTON personage, Ellington usually hides behind his ur- ORCHESTRATES FOR PIANO banely noncommittal master -of -ceremonies mask. But in his music, he reveals himself as an uncom- An underestimated solo performer in vivid relief monly subtle chronicler of his times. The complexity and the life -savoring gusto of the man himself are particularly clear in his solo work. It is to the credit of Max Roach and Charles N "MONEY JUNGLE,' Mingus that they sublimate their own formidable an album Duke Ellington made for United Artists talents to Ellington's here. Mingus unobtrusively before he signed his new contract with Reprise, provides fascinating and apposite accompani- he records for the first time with Max Roach and ment patterns for most of the tracks. The quality Charles Mingus. Although we might expect from of sound could have been crisper and warmer, this a cooperative effort by these virtuosi of mod- but it detracts little from this variegated portrait ern jazz, the disc is actually an Ellington solo of the essential Ellington. Nat Hentoff recital for which Mingus and Roach provide only discreet support. As a recorded document, it is @ ® DUKE ELLINGTON: Money Jungle. Duke important because it is one of the too -rare occa- Ellington( piano), Charles Mingus( bass), Max sions on which Ellington's scope as a pianist can Roach (drums). Money Jungle; Les Fleurs Africaines; be heard. It is true that he constantly uses his Very Special; Warm Valley; Wig Wise; Caravan; orchestra as a remarkably personal instrument, Solitude. UNITED ARTISTS 15107 $5.98, 14107* $4.98. but his capacities as an instrumentalist have long. been underestimated. In this session, Ellington has an opportunity to ENTERTAINMENT improvise at length on three of his standards, as well as on four new pieces. We hear how he OF CONTUMELY AND KINGS utilizes the full range of the piano-how he or- The Hollow Crown : chestrates his music on the piano, as it were. From Britannia's private lives his resourceful hands come plangent chords and and public personages joyful polyrhythms as well as distinctive melodic inventions. By contrast, the average modern jazz ONTAINING most of the material that pianist, with his atrophied left hand, sounds no brought cheers from critics and audiences when less than anemic. The Hollow Crown was performed on Broadway Above all, Ellington's solos have the impact of this past winter, these two London discs trace a an exceptionally forceful, vivid personality. In pageant in sound that highlights the exploits and this set, there are the prickly ironies of Money foibles of the British monarchy from William I DUKE ELLINGTON Chronicler of the times

MAY 1963 to Queen Victoria. Since this was primarily an evening of readings, little is missed by not seeing the performers. The program is headlined by a quote from Shakespeare's Richard II: "For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground/And tell sad stories of the death of kings." But the stories. culled from the Anglo-Saxon and Holinshed Chronicles and the writings of Jane Austen. Hor- ace Walpole, Fanny Burney, William Thackeray, and other magicians of the English language, are not all sad by any means. To add to the color and interest of the album, there are songs and harpsichord pieces of varying quality but invariable interest, actually composed by the men and women who once sat on the throne, and beautifully sung by John Barton with harpsichord accompaniment by James Walker. One of the most diverting episodes comes at the end of side one when Dorothy Tutin delivers a brief history of England written by Jane Austen at the age of fifteen. The brilliance of the essay, which touches on the lives of thirteen monarchs from Henry IV to Charles I, and the naiveté of Miss Austen's finger -shaking over such matters as the wickedness of Elizabeth-"that disgrace to society"-for her treatment of Mary Tudor, arc underlined with subtlety and mischief by Miss Tutin, who is nothing less than a sensational performer. The rest of the cast, all members of the Royal Shakespeare Company, cannot top the work of Miss Tutin. She reappears at the end to bring Queen Victoria's coronation diary so amus- ingly and so movingly to life that it is difficult to realize one has been listening only to the reproduction of a voice. Another of Miss Tutin's great moments comes DOROTHY TI -TIN in the reading of a description by Fanny Burney. Subtle, mischievous, superb the great novelist and diarist, of an encounter with the Teuton George II. And there is much by the various monarchs come as sweet inter- more-indeed, there isn't a slow moment-as ludes, and the show winds up forcefully with a Richard Johnson reads Henry VIII's proposal to vigorous performance by Mr. Walker of Beetho- Anne Boleyn, and Miss Tutin returns with Anne's ven's piano variations on "God Save the Queen." heartbreaking note to Henry just before her exe- This is a brilliantly edited and acted anthology, cution ;as John Barton delivers Thackeray's and one that is in sum irreverent. As the barbs spiteful and devastating description and evalua- of wit, insult, and merciless revelation of char- tion of George IV ;as Max Adrian and ,John acter hit their royal targets time after time, this Barton re-enact Henry VII's unconsciously hilar- listener was almost ready to shed a tear with the ious injunction to his ambassadors to bring him self-pitying Henry VI, who said that "kingdoms the measurements of the Queen of Naples and are but cares." Paul Kresh the "condition of her breath and breasts" ;as Johnson and Barton make the air crackle with ® THE HOLLOW CROWN. Devised and tension and bitterness in the re-created treason produced by John Barton. Dorothy Tutin, Richard trial of Charles I, who seems unable to compre- Johnson, Max Adrian, and John Barton (perform- hend that mere mortals could question his in- ers); Tony Church (narrator); James Walker (harpsichord). LONDON OSA 1253 two 12 -inch discs $11.96, tegrity. The songs, poems, and harpsichord pieces 4253* $9.96.

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In the second of his historic The greatest voices from the In this, the first recording in An exciting program of Rach- new recordings, Mr. Horowitz Golden Age of Opera available English translation, Eugene maninoff, showcasing the unique displays his superb artistry in a for the first time in 60 years. A Ormandy,ThePhiladelphia artistry of pianist Philippe En- program of Schumann, Scar- 2 -LP set. Orchestra and soloists Rosalind tremont and the orchestral latti, Schubert and Scriabin. Elias and Jerome Hines lead us brillianceofthe New York throughBart6k'smysterious Philharmonic conducted by and dramatic "Bluebeard's Leonard Bernstein. Castle."

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This release marks the recording debut of binstein (piano). RCA VICTOR LSC 2654 Explanation of symbols: the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the $5.98, LM 2654* $4.98. =monophonic recording new era of Erich Leinsdorf's succession ®-stereophonicrecording to leadership. And the liner notes tell us Interest: Basic Beethoven =mono or stereo version that, along with a new conductor, we are Performance: Con brio not received for review to have a new BSO recorded sound, one Recording: Crystal clear that Leinsdorf ,and Victor's engineers Stereo Quality: Sufficient RECORDING OF SPECIAL MERIT have brought about as the result of considerable experiment. Beethoven's "Farewell-Absence-Re- 0 ® BARTOK:Bluebeard's Castle. The achievement, let it be said straight turn" sequence of solo piano movements, Rosalind Elias (mezzo-soprano), Jerome off,is an unqualified technical success. which he called the"Lcbcwahl"Sonata Hines (bass); Philadelphia Orchestra, The recording is perhaps not quite as rich (not"Les Adieux,"as insisted upon by Eugene Ormandy cond. COLUMBIA MS and sonorous as Munch's last releases, but his publishers even in the face of the 6425 $5.98, ML 5825 $4.98. itis a miracle of clarity. And Leinsdorf opening three -chord"Le-be-wohl" mo- leads the orchestra in a performance of tive),has always been one of the choice Interest: Early Bartok the sort of mechanical brilliance and elan itemsinArtur Rubinstein's Viennese Performance: Handsome classical repertoire. This, his second re- Recording: First-rate corded performance of it,isa beauty, Stereo Quality: Excellent brimful of beautifully molded phrasing in the poignant episodes and infectious Bartok'sBluebeard's Castlewas written brio in the jubilant finale. in 1911, when the composer was about Some listeners may be put off, as I was, thirty. His musical personality had by no by Rubinstein's deliberate pacing of the means developed at this stage of his ca- middle movement in the "Moonlight," reer, but, if you know what to look for, it but I hope they will share my joy in the can he detected in occasional folk over- shimmering Chopin -nocturne -like beauty tones, in flashes of raw dramatic power, that he brings to the celebrated opening and in its utterly convincing musico-dra- movement, and my thrill at hearing the matic continuity. thunderous drama of the finale. But the work lacks genuinely vocal lyri- His current approach to the"Path& cism. I am not suggesting that a vocal tique"is a bit of a puzzler-is is the work line is mere recitative because it does not itself, whichisa curious marriage of shape uplikemiddle Verdi,butI eighteenth -century formalism and nine- strongly suspect that an opera consisting teenth-century Romantic rhetoric. To this largely of lyric declamation between two listener, what emerges from the recording characters could occasionally stand the here is an attempt to understate the more relief of a more song -like gesture. obviously rhetorical elements that yet Even this reservation must await the fails to achieve a wholly effective eight- experience of the visual production, how- eenth -century sense of proportion. This ever. An opera can hie justifiably based music should be taken whole either as an ARTeK RUBI\S'rEiN on even the most outlandish vocal con- example of early Romanticism, or else as cepts if it works in production. Beethoven with thunder and brio a late eighteenth -century work after the The present performance, sung in Eng- manner of Mozart's C Minor or A Minor lish,is an excellent one. Jerome Hines that we associate more with the Or- sonatas. Rubinstein tries to play both and Rosalind Elias are both in top form, mandy-Philadelphia manner than with sides of the stylistic street here, and the and Ormandy has given them orchestral Boston. result remains unconvincing, to my way support that could scarcely be better. Granting all of this, the performance of thinking. Butchacunason gait. W. F. does not cut very deep. But I am not pre- RC.Vs recording job is clean and clear pared to write this off as Leinsdorf's fault, -I have no complaints whatever in this ® ® BARTOK:Concerto for Orches- since I am far from sure that the piece department. D. H. tra.Boston Symphony Orchestra, Erich itself achieves much more than its frankly Leinsdorf cond. RCA VICTOR LSC 2643 virtuosic aim. IV.F. @ BELLINI: LaSonnambula. Joan $5.98, LM 2643* $4.98. Sutherland (soprano), Amina; Margreta @ ® BEETHOVEN:Piano Sonatas: Elkins (mezzo-soprano), Teresa; Nicola Interest: Bartok show -stopper No. 8, inCMinor,O.13 ("Polite- Monti (tenor), Elvino; Sylvia Stahlman Performance: Pow! tique"); No. 11, in C -sharp Minor,Op. (soprano), Lisa; Fernando Corena Recording: Faultless 27, No. 2 ("Moonlight"); No. 26, in (bass), Count Rodolfo; Giovanni Foiani Stereo Quality: Excellent E -flat,Op.81a ("Lebewohl").Artur Ru- (baritone), Alessio; Angelo Mercuriali MAY 1963 59 (tenor), Notary; Chorus and Orchestra nomenon by the name of Sutherland. terchangeable with Lucia, Gilda, or Al- of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Rich- These assets should compensate for cina-none of the characters manage to ard Bonynge cond.LONDONOSA 1365 what the opera lacks in theatrical effec- come alive. Amina is hardly a subject to three12 -inchdiscs$17.94, A 4365* tiveness-it is almost too much to ask a reward penetrating character study, but $14.94. modern audience to be seriously invoh'ed one should at least be able to determine with the plight of a Swiss maiden whose from her utterances when she is sleep- Interest: Bel canto opera sleepwalking lands her in an embarrass- walking and when she is not. Miss Suth- Performance: Sutherland starring ing predicament. On records, at any rate, erland's unvarying vocal quality blankets Recording: Full credibility will be of little concern to the this distinction, but of course she sings Stereo Quality: Appropriate sympathetic listener, who will find in the with consistently beautiful tone and alto- sad sweetness and delicacy of Bellini's gether superlative art, and her conclud- Two factors seem to indicate that La writing a perfect complement to this idyl- ing "Ah, non giunge" isbreathtaking, Sonnanibula's return to the Met reper- lic tale. But gratifyingly uncomplicated reminiscent of Tetrazzini. toire-an event coinciding with this re- as itis for listeners, La Sonnambula is, Characterization through singing, elu- lease-will be successful: one is that the for the singers, an extremely demanding sive though it may be for the brilliant languid charm of bel canto opera seems and hazardous score. Sutherland, is second nature to Fernando to have a soothing effect on our anxiety - In the gallery of Joan Sutherland's Corena. His portrayal of the amorous ridden age, and the other is simply a phe- vocal portrayals, Amina is virtually in- (Continued on next page)

comparison with the new Bruno Walter Mahler First Symphony on Columbia, DYNAGROOVE MAKES ITS BOW which sounded muffled when played side -for -side against the RCA disc. On the questionable side of the Dyna- RCAVICTOR,with its March releases, sion on Columbia. I had Paul Paray's groove ledger, one wonders if RCA has introduced a new recording process Mercury disc of the Ravel Bolero to com- not achieved some measure of sonic called Dynagroove. Rather than being an pare with the Dynagroove recording by cleanliness at the expense of solid bass improvement of any single aspect of re- Munch and the Boston Symphony.I reproduction. To my cars, only the But- cording technology, the Dynagroove checked RCA's new Madama Butterfly terfly album had truly adequate bass. process constitutes what might be called against several other comparable operatic CertainlynoneoftheDynagroove a total approach to recording, and in- recordings, including London's recent orchestraldiscs had anything like the cludes a number of new engineering tech- RigolettoandthecelebratedRCA walloping bass of the best from Com- niques. These begin with the careful Leinsdorf-conducted Turandot. In the mand, London, or DGG. It is hard to say matching of acoustical environment and popular area, I checked out Sid Ramin's at this point whether the lack of bass is performers, and of every piece of equip- "New ThresholdsinSound" against a function of technological or aesthetic ment, from microphones and tape ma- Enoch Light's pace -setting "35 -mm bias.I was surprised, too, at the tre- chines to cutting -heads, amplifiers, and Sound" Command album of some two mendous variance in room sound and monitoring speakers. Given the choice be- years ago. To provide myself with a presence between the Boston Symphony tween 35 -mm magnetic film or 30-ips further frame of sonic reference for sym- under Munch and the same orchestra un- half -inch tape for use at recording ses- phonic listening, I also sampled some of der Leinsdorf. The mike pickup seemed sions, the RCA engineering staff decided the Command discs by Steinberg and rather too distant in the Mahler and al- on the latter. Further, the staff has de- the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra of most painfully close and harsh in Ravel. veloped what it calls a Recording Over- Brahms and Wagner, Bernstein's Mahler In the Munch Ravel disc Ifelt a tre- loadIndicator, a Dynamic Spectrum Third on Columbia, and the Beethoven mendous urge to cut down mid -range Equalizer, and a Dynamic Styli Correia - Fifth with the late Ferenc Fricsay and frequencies (1,500-4,000 cps) and to hike tor to insure maximum sonic cleanliness the Berlin Philharmonic on DGG-all the bass slightly, but in order to keep the and clarity plus optimum frequency bal- the time paying specialattentionto comparison conditions constant, I reso- ance. The first of these devices provides a sound quality of loud passages on the lutely kept my itchy fingers away from warning for the cutting engineer of dy- inner grooves. the controls. namic peaks that might cause tracking Summed up in one sentence, I can say Again, in comparing the Sid Ramin trouble in home playback; the second without qualification that the best Dyna- (RCA) and Enoch Light (Command) amountstoanautomaticfrequency groove sound,asexemplifiedbythe discs, the difference seemed to lie in the equalizer intendedtogive maximum Madama Butterfly and by the Leinsdorf- engineering aesthetics, with Light being clarity to high- and low-level dynamics Boston Symphony Mahler First Sym- favored by the splendid room sound of without the use of over-all compression; phony, was notable for its extreme clarity Carnegie Hall, while Ramin held forth and the thirdis intended to eliminate and cleanliness of sonic texture through- amid a rather tight studio sound that the tracing distortion that still plagues out the entire audible frequency range, tended to make brasses seem a bit harsh. the inside grooves of too many stereo even on the inner grooves. Over-all dy- These, then, are some initial impres- discs. namic ranges were on a par with current sions of Dynagroove. The important So much for the theory behind the standards; no radical departures from the thing, as I see it, is not so much whether Dynagroove process. How do the initial norm were noticeable in either high- or RCA has entirely succeeded in itsfirst results measure up when heard in disc - low-level passages. Again and again, how- efforts at a new approach to recording, for -disc comparison on home equipment? ever, the extreme clarity of texture was but rather simply that it has adopted such After installing new styli and making a apparent-as well as freedom from the an approach as a matter of general policy. careful frequency check of my entire sys- type of distortion that arises from com- Undoubtedly, Dynagroove will cause the tem, I undertook a comprehensive series bination tones produced by human yokes rest of the industry giants to pay closer of comparison checks. I paired the new in duet or ensemble, or by certain brass attention than ever to improving the Erich Leinsdorf-Boston Symphony RCA and woodwind color combinations. The sound quality of their discs. So much the discs of the Mahler First Symphony with distinctive brightness and clarity of the better for everyone concerned. the recently released Bruno Walter ver- Dynagroove sound was most apparent in David Hall 60 HIFI /STEREO REVIEW Count is touched with humor that, although probably unintentional,isnot damaging. But the vocal richness and smooth legato that could make the aria INTRODUCING DYNACO'S "I'i ravviso" a sterling example of bel canto singing are no longer at his dispo- sal-years of singing buffo parts have NEW COMPACTS! taken their toll. Corena is quite miscast, but he does hisbest. So does Nicola Monti, who labors manfully ata role Bellinicomposed withthelegendary Rubiniin mind. Despite moments of -40",/fe,,4rAr4rr struggle and strain in the florid and high - lying passages, his over-all accomplishment is tasteful and creditable. The supporting singers are good, and Bonynge does a thoroughly efficient job with what is anything but a conductor's opera. As a total performance, I consider the earlier Angel and Cetra recordings superior. Angel's Maria Callas can make even Amina a flesh -and -blood figure, and the other principals, Monti and Zaccaria, as well as Cetra's stars, Pagliughi, Taglia- vini, and Siepi, are equal to or better than their London counterparts. London's, on the other hand, is an uncut performance, and a decided sonic improvementover the others, although excessive reverber- ance obscures same ensemble details and blurs the clarity of enunciation. The accompanying booklet contains good illus- COMPACT IN SIZE AND PRICE- FULL trations, an informative essay by Mr. SIZE IN QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE Bonynge, and a complete libretto.G. J.

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MAY1963 CIRCLE NO. 27 ON READER SERVICE CARD 61 quires a deliberate mistuning of the vio- the mono pressing. The album com- lin strings-scordatura-to achieve color- mendably contains extensive notes and istic and technical effects. For instance, complete details on the scordatura used New...OldOH the violin in the twelfth sonata (Resur- for each work. I. K. rection) gains its remarkable tonal quality thus: an A -string in the D position MERCURY is tuned down to G above middle C, a RECORDING OF SPECIAL MERIT D -string replaces the regular A -string in 0 ® CHOPIN:Four Mazurkas, Op. that position, an E -string is tuned down 6; Five Mazurkas, Op. 7; Four Mazur- to D above high C, and the G-string is kas, Op. 17; Four Mazurkas, Op. 24; FLAMENCO! Flamenco Guitar Music unaltered. The Pentecost Sonata (No. played by Pepe Romero Four Mazurkas, Op. 30.Alexander MG 50297/SR 90297 13) features equally unusual sonorities; Brailowsky (piano). 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Together with Johann Sebastian Bach, BARTOK Bluebeard's Castle whose keyboard art he revered, Chopin (complete opera) stands as the supreme composer of ideal- Mihaly Szekely, bass; Olga Szonyi, soprano ized dance music, for what he did within London Symphony, Dorati the smallish forms of the mazurka and MG 50311/SR 90311 the polonaise-the inner-directed poetry of the one and the outer -directed epic power of the other-was a wholly unique musical achievement. Before writing this review, I listened CURRENT to many of the mazurkas as played by Vladimir Horowitz, Maryla Jonas, and BEST SELLERS the late William Kapell (I did not have SONYA MONOSOFF access to the complete mazurkas recorded TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker Ease and artistry for scordatura by Artur Rubinstein, a set widely re- (complete ballet) garded as definitive). 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Her way with these songs is De rive; De greve; De Ileum; De soir; gram, which was once available on RCA relatively straightforward, but always re- Ballades des femmes de Paris.Maggie Victor LCT 1133, to include four selec- sponsive to subtle points of expressive- Teyte(soprano);AlfredCortotand tions previously released only in a lim- ness. Cortot and Moore do their substan- Gerald Moore (piano). ANGEL C:OLH ited edition:Le jet d'eau,set to a Baude- tial share in the collaboration with bril- 134 $5.98. laire poem, and three songs from the liance, and, if you are attracted by the Proses Lyriquescycle. This cycle, repre- mystery and sensuousness of Debussy's Interest: Important reissue senting Debussy's own impressionist po- songs-a spell to which I have not yet Performance. A classic etry, appears here in complete form for wholly succumbed-you will findthis Recording: Fair sound, poor surfaces the first time by this artist. recital almost indispensable. Maggie Teyte's approach to Debussy Again, Angel has supplied a booklet of Maggie Teyte's long -celebrated Debussy concentrates less on evoking a vaporous texts and annotations that is a model of interpretations are an appropriate and and sensual atmosphere, which was so its kind. Not so the technical reproduc- welcome addition to Angel's Great Re- uncannilyaccomplishedinGerard tion, which, though adequate for the cordings of the Century series. To be ap- Souzay's DGG recital, than on musical age ofthe recording (1936-1948),is marred by incessant surface noise.G. 1.

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The Country and Western Sound of JAll PIANOS symphonyisperhaps afailureinits now in the rew rcund plastic container. Steve Kuhn and Toshiko Akiyoshi larger intentions, its acquaintance might Here is a jazz piano duo to challenge any current top At your hi-fi and record dealer. virtuosos! Their modern jan interpretations, arranged even open aneyeor two in Mr. Thom - by Ed Summerlin, bring new life to C & W standards. son's Intellectual Audience, Includes: Beautiful Brown Eyes, Hang Your HeadIn Shame, Down In The Valley. etc. The Utah Symphony Orchestra con- DM 4308/0S 6308 tinues to emit recorded sounds that are MONO (DMI-53.98 STEREO (DS) --$4.98 absolutely first-rate, and Maurice Abra- Pions, write forFREE complete catalogs vanel offers us the symphony in a per- AVAILABLE AT YOUR RECORD STORE.formance of sustained power andin- OR WRITE: AUDIO FIDELITY INC. tensilied cohesiveness. 710 Eleventh Ave., New York 19, N.Y. (Continued on page 66) CIRCLE NO. 14 ON READER SERVICE CARD CIRCLE NO. 43 ON READER SERVICE CARD -31. - MAY1963 THE LEKTROSTAT CORP. New York 59, N. Y. RECORDING OF SPECIAL MERIT form of a German mass for the dead, a Ehmann according to the composer's in- motet composed to the words of the tentions, are wonderfully effective both 0 SCHUTZ: Musikalische Exe- funeral sermon, and a choral section to for their variety and their blended sonor- quien. Soloists, instrumentalists, chorus accompany the interment. It is music on ities. To this has been added a first-class of the Westfalische Kantorei, Wilhelm a grand scale, powerful in its expression stereo reproduction. I can unhesitatingly Ehmann cond. CANTATE 650205 $6.95, of piety, in the variety of its sections and recommend the disc. Texts, translations, 640205 $5.95. its vocal scoring. The present perform- and notes are included in German, ance ranks among the finest Schutz on French, and English. I.K. Interest: Schutz'sGerman Requiem records-the disc, as a matter of fact, Performance: Superlative received the 1962 International Edison COLLECTIONS Recording: Splendid Award for the interpretation of sacred Stereo Quality:Excellent music. The chorus is one of the most out- RECORDING OF SPECIAL MERIT standing in Europe, and the vocal solo- The Musical Obsequies, written by ists, who are members of the Westphalian IVAN MORAVEC: Piano Recital. Schutz on commission as funeral music, Kantorei, are ideal. The Baroque instru- Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F consists of three parts: a concert in the ments, added by the Schutz authority Dr. Minor, Op. 57 ("Appassionata"). Mo- zart: Piano Sonata No. 14, in C Minor (K. -157). Ivan Moravec (piano). CON- NOISSEUR SOCIETY CS 562 $6.98. 0 IVAN MORAVEC: Piano Recital. Franck: Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue. Chopin: Scherzo No.1,in B Minor, Op. 20; Ballade No. 3, in A -flat, Op. 47. Ivan Moravec (piano). CONNOIS- FRONT SEUR SOCIETY CS 662 $6.98. Interest: Newpianistic talent ROW AND Performance.Controversial Recording: Superb CENTER! Stereo Quality: Natural ... with the Purists will fume at Ivan Moravec's free- Monarch ES -300 wheeling reading of Beethoven's "Appas- sionata," and eyebrows will be raised Lights aredimmed athis Furtwangleresque elongation of as the Maestro Franck's Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue to lifts his baton over the extent of twenty -one -plus minutes- the electrifying as opposed to the usual seventeen or hush of the Met... eighteen. (By contrast, the Chopin A -flat all the excitement Ballade is played a minute and a half faster than Rubinstein did on his RCA and brilliance of Victor disc of a year or so ago). How- true stereo come ever,after severalhearings,Icannot to life without questionthatthethirty -two -year -old disturbing noises of Moravec knows exactly what he is doing, everyday living. You'll that he has the technique to match his enjoy a private stereo conceptions, and that whether it discom- fits us or not, the Czech pianist's readings world of your own. Sensitive 25-15,000 cps age -however theatrical-deserve serious reproduction. Crisp highs and clean lows... consideration. unmatched channel separation. The Beethoven comes forth as an essay Soft foamy lightweight earpads provide in Romantic rhetoric, wherein the tran- comfort for hours of listening pleasure... sitionbetween the second andthird ideal for monitoring or communications movements achieves an atmosphere of al- work. Discover true stereo today with most unbearable suspense through the the Monarch ES -300. Complete with extra - pianist's exploitation of pregnant pauses and effective dynamic graduations. The long durable cord. 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The guilt -ridden Tsar Boris, Christoff has ,ust re-recorded previous Angel 'ecorctings suffocating with fear before for Angel this. his greatest (the complete Moussorgsky the spectre of the murdered role. The magnificent chorus songs, Gounod's Faust, tsarevich.. driven to and sew -al soloists of the Verdi's Simon Boccanegra) hysterics Dy the whirring Sofia National Opera were faithfully convey Christoff's MOUSSORGSKY: BORIS GODOU- NOV. Boris Christoff (roles of souncs cf an intricate flown to Paris for the depth of characterization, Boris, Pimen and Varlaam), chimirig clock ... occasion. The Bulgarian his versatility, his Evelyn Lear (Marina), Ekaterina Gueorguieva (Xenia), Ana Alex- Boris Christoff in the "Clock bass's reunion with his remarkable vocal art. ieva (Feodor., Mela Bougarino- vitch (Nurse;, Dimitr Ouzounov Scene" from Boris Winnow compatriots inspired this Angel is proud to include (Dimitri), John Lanigan (Shu- creates a thrilling moment recording of a masterpiece isky), Anton Diakov (Rangoni); Boris Christoff in its roster Chorus of the Sofia National in the opera house, an that transcends barriers of of the great recording artists Opera, Orchestre de la Societe time and politics. des Concerts du Conservatoire unforgettable moment in of this and the preceding (Paris) conducted by Andre music. The new Boris and his generations. Cluytens. Album (S) 3633 D/L CIRCLENO. 9 ON READERSERVICE CARD way that underscores its improvisatory toward rhetorical extremes in tempos and same company. Thus, despite his fleet- basis, and with pacing so deliberate and dynamics. But considering the intellect, ing appearance as Wolfram in the Met's massive that the end is overwhelming in sensitivity, and absoluteness of control Tannhiiuser in late 1960, he is still barely its granitic power. that he displays on these discs, there is no known to the American public. A new All told, Moravec seems to be an artist reason why Ivan Moravec could not be- London release of a solo disc should do who revels in walking the tightrope become one of the great pianists of the com- much to change this. For the young (born tween legitimate interpretive liberty and ing decade. D. H. in 1929) Prey, who has sung in all the unjustified license. This technique, as ap- principal German opera houses, is in ad- plied to Beethoven's "Appassionata" and RECORDING OF SPECIAL MERIT dition already in Fischer-Dieskau's class to the Mozart C Minor Sonata, does re- as a song interpreter. His voice has the sult in a curiously gripping listening ex- ® 0 HERMANN PREY:Lieder Re- same caressing warmth and the same perience. One may ask, though, how well cital.Schubert:An Sylvia; Der Wan- liquid richness as his colleague, who is this sort of thing will wear under repeated derer an den Mond; Inn Abendrot; Erl- four years older, and it is used with sim- hearing. konig.Schumann:Der Hidalgo; Meine ilar sensitivity if not yet with the same No small part of the over-all effect of Rose; Der Spielmann.Brahms:Wiegen- rangeoftonalvarietythatFischer- these performances is owing to the super - lied; Die Mainacht; Sonntag; Dein blaues Dieskau commands. realistic recorded sound of these 12 -inch Auge; Standchen.Strauss:Heimliche Whether in the hushed reverence of 45 -rpm discs-particularly as regards dy- Aufforderung;Heimkehr;Allerseelen; fin Abendrot, the vivid drama of Erl- namic range, which in the Franck must Stiindelzen. Hermann Prey (baritone), kiinig, or the impassioned climactic of be heard to be believed. The finest sonics, Karl Engel( piano). LONDON OS 25757 Allerseelen,Preyistotallyabsorbing. however, arc in the Beethoven and the $5.98, 5757* $4.98. Somewhat less successfulis Heimliche Mozart; in the Franck and the Chopin, Aufforderung, where the two contrasting the room reverberation of the Manhattan Interest: The lied's Big Four sections are not balanced with the un- Towers Hotel ballroom becomes a shade Performance: Exceptional canny mastery evident in Fischer-Dies- obtrusive. The playing surfaces of the Recording: Excellent kau's interpretation. By allstandards, discs received for review were flawless; Stereo Quality: Beautiful however, thisis an exceptional recital, only the best DGG Archive discs fall into beautifully accompanied and brilliantly the same class. Collectors may be familiar with Her- recorded. Full texts and translations arc A final evaluation of Moravec must mann Prey's imported Electrola discs, supplied. G. I. wait until we have heard what he pro- but on recordings of wider circulation his duces on a year -in, year -out basis. It may appearances have been limited to such be that in the future he will moderate the bit parts as the Night Watchman in An- more controversial elements of his per- gel's Die Meistersinger and the Second forming style-especiallyhistendency Vagabond in Orff's Die Kluge for the

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The Ricitic; and three others. Explanation of symbols: IMPULSE positions of recent years. Ray Charles's AS 26* $5.98, A 26 $4.98. Place seems oddly named, for it strongly ®= monophonic recording resembles Monk'sStraight No Chaser. C) =stereophonic recording Interest: Ellington inspired The almost impromptuLimboJazz is an * =mono or stereo version Performance: Unsurpassable enchanting near -Calypso.The Riciticis a not received for review Recording: Excellent chartning rhythmic tour de force, played by a quintet made up of rhythm, Haw- It has been said that Duke Ellington re- RECORDING OF SPECIAL MERIT kins, and the romantic Ray Nance violin. sponds well to challenges, but receives On both violin and cornet, Nance con- 0 JOHN COLTRANE: Ballads. them too seldom. Perhaps so, for the tinues on an unusually highlevelof John Coltrane (tenor saxophone), Mc- presence of Coleman Hawkins in a re- imagination and musicianship. But the CoyTyner (piano), ElvinJones laxed, small -group atmosphere has re- finest cut is probably the moody piece (drums), Jimmy Garrison (bass). You sulted in a superb Ellington album. Ellington wrote for Hawkins and dubbed Don't Know ll'hat Love Is; All or Noth- In the happiest jazz release in months, with Hawkins's nickname:Self -Portrait ing at All; Nancy with the Laughing Ellington has returned to the great spirit of the Bran. Hawkins plays it possessively Face: Say it Over and Over Again; I of the late Thirties. One is impressed by and beautifully. Wish I Knew; It's Easy to Remember; the soloists, but more by the texture of Brilliant as Hawkins is, the album is and two others.IMPULSEAS 32* $5.98, the band, an octet: the specific weight of Ellington's- that piano, those songs, that A 32 $4.98. the arranged portion of Wanderlust, or band. When he is at the top of his form, as he so joyouslyishere, no one can Interest: The calmer Coltrane touch him. The album is occasionally Performance. Introspective marred by drummer Sam Woodyard, Recording: Very good who seems to forget that he does not have the full orchestra in front of him, but As I have observed in previous appraisals even that detracts only slightly from the of Coltrane, the man's playing is in es- best Ellington in many a month. The re- sence lyrical-even when he is at his cording is superb. J. G. most demoniacally complex. In this set of ballad interpretations, the quality of 0 ® SLIDE HAMPTON:Jazz With that lyricism should disarm even the a Twist. Slide Hampton and Benny Ja- most implacable of Coltrane's critics. He indicates, cobs -El (trombone), Willie Thomas and first of all, that like all Hobart Dotson (trumpets), George Cole- major jazzmen, he can stay close to the man (tenor saxophone), Jay Cameron melody in a first chorus, and yet infuse (baritone saxophone), Horace Parlan it with compelling individuality. In the (piano), Eddie Khanbass), Ray Bar- subsequent variations, Coltrane further retto (congo drums), Vinnie Ruggiero reveals how disciplined, sensitive, and (drums). The Jazz Twist; Mack the economical his improvisations can be. Knit( ; .Strollin':and six others. ATLANTic The aching cry that is always character- S 1379 $5.98, 1379 $4.98. istic of Coltrane's tone becomes particularly evocative in ballad performances. His rhythm support-and McCoy Ty- Interest: Unique sound ner's solos-are afitting complement, Performance:Polished resilient and lucid. N. H. Recording: Muddy JOHN COLTRANI Stereo Quality: Directional RECORDING OF SPECIAL MERIT Demonic complexity, disarming lyricism Despite its title, this is not a twist album, ® ® DUKE ELLINGTON COLE- the way that, inMood Indigo.the sound although several of the tracks could qual- MAN HAWKINS:Duke Ellington of Lawrence Brown's trombone followed ify. Slide Hampton's big -little band is Meets Coleman Hawkins. Coleman by the sound of thestill -magnificent usually an octet. This time, however, he Hawkins (tenor saxophone), Ray Nance Johnny Hodges on alto is the piece. has added conga drummer Ray Barretto (comet and violin), Lawrence Brown Hawkins, employing a smoother tone and pianist Horace Parlan to his normal (trombone), Johnny Hodges (alto saxo- than usual, has perfected an all-purpose setup of brass, reeds, bass, and drums. As phone), Harry Carney (baritone saxo- solo that he seems to use, instead of the usual, Hampton maneuvers his limited phone and bass clarinet ), Duke Ellington pieces he is playing, as the basis for varia- array of instruments into various combi- (piano), Aaron Bell (bass), Sam Wood- tions. It is, however, a wonderful solo. nations, making his unit sound much yard (drums). Limbo Jazz; The Jeep is The presence of Hawkins has also larger than it actually is. This is pleasant, Jumpin'; You Dirty Dog; Wanderlust; evoked some of the finest Ellington com- superficially exciting music that is never MAY1963 69 deep or incisive, and since its sound is the main feature of this band, it is unfortu- New Easy -to -Use nate that the recording is not clearer. FOR FULL QUALITY The features are an exuberant Mack Fully Automatic Camera the Knife, a rousing version of Nat Ad- STEREO -MULTIPLEX derley's Work Song, and a Day In, Day Out that depends almost completely on OR MONOPHONIC one of Miles Davis' favorite tag endings for its effect. The high spot should have FM RECEPTION been a three-part piece called The Bar- use barians, a work that can be enormously exciting in jazz clubs. Here, however, it somehow misses. I. C. FiNco RECORDING OF SPECIAL MERIT ® COLEMAN HAWKINS:Desa- finado. Coleman Hawkins (tenor saxophone), Barry Galbraith and Howard World's most Can't Take a Picture! Collins (guitars), Major Holley (bass), Complete Line of (when the light's not right) Eddie Locke, Tommy Flanagan, and Willie Rodriguez (percussion). Samba Hi Fi Phased Para Bean; I Remember You; 0 Pato; FM Antennas... simply aim and shoot. If the .Stumpy Bossa Nova; and four others. Poulight's too dim to give you a perfect IMPULSE AS 28 $5.98, A 28* $4.98. picture .. .the camera locks ... won't fire... but the lens is so powerful, you Interest: Durable bossa nova Performance: Masterful Hawk THE TOP PERFORMANCE can now take most indoor pictures with- Recording: Warm and live out flash. Patented, computer electric eye Stereo Quality: Excellent FM ANTENNA LINE automatically makes all settings for you No matter how well your FM unit ...lens openings and shutter speeds. No A majority of the attempts in the past is performing, you'll hear the differ- signals to watch ...no settings to adjust. year to cash in on the bossa nova fad ence a FINCO makes. Rich, luxurious Nothing to remember ...nothing to for- will be as evanescent as those jazz ver- distortion -free soundisyours when get... and you can see before you shoot sions of Broadway shows that prolifer- you pick just the right FM antenna what your finished picture will look like. ago. But this album is You get what you see every time. Living an exception. Aside from his prowess as from FINCO's complete line. color in all its natural beauty... clear, a continually inventive improviser, Haw- FM1 KIT - 514 50 sharp, perfectly exposed color slides. No kins has the temperament to understand blurs, no blanks, no wasted shots. the emotional core of this jazz -tinged samba. As played by its Brazilian origi- Professional effects are also auto- nators, the bossa nova is lyrical and ten- matic! Close-up, studio quality portraits. derly nostalgic. In these performances, Breathtaking scenics. 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Interest: Bunk's first session Performance: Disappointing Features You Never Recording: Fair No matter where you live-suburbs or heart of Thought Possible On the city-your high fidelity FM stereo system's performance is only as good as the signal that When Charlie Parker began to scare reaches yourreceiver.Fortrue,perfect and them, the moldy figs found Bunk Johnson A Single Machine undistorted reception, free from interference, you working inthe Louisianaricefields, need the strongest possible signal from every station. bought him a set of store teeth, and If you are a Serious Tape Now you can be sure of the full realism of FM recorded him. He told stories, some of stereo and monaural broadcasts-with the new which are in the interview included in Recordist, Stereo Fan, Mu- Gallo FMS -101indoor antenna system that at- taches to any FM radio or tuner using just a this recording-how he had taught them sician, Educator or Public screwdriver.Injust minutes, you are ableto all: King Joe Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Speaker, the Bell RT-360 receive a high -quality, high -gain signal over the entire FM broadcast band-sit back and enjoy Tommy Ladnier. Jazzmen, an anthology is a must for you. better music at its best, even from stations you that is the Rosetta Stone of jazz histor- never could listen to before! ians, leans heavily on Bunk's reminis- At your high fidelity dealer The Gallo FMS -101 antenna system is compact, handsomely styled, fits into any room decor.It cences. He played with Bechet and be- soon. Send for special pre- has an omni-directional antenna, coupled to an came the object of adulation at New view brochure today. all -transistorized pre -amplifier, all completely en- York's Stuyvesant Casino. According to closed inits sturdy case. Nothing to go wrong, nothing to need replacement ever. historian Samuel Charters, he was "a The Gallo FMS -101 costs only $29.95-less than petulant, spiteful man who drank too many roof -top antennas. And this marvelous indoor much and played only when he was in antenna system is guaranteed to produce better FM reception anywhere-or your money will be the mood...." BELL STEREO SYSTEMS refunded. Go to your own Hi-Fi Dealer. Hear the Since 1942, when the first Bunk John- Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc. Gallo FMS -101 antenna system-and what it does 6325 Huntley Road, Columbus 24, Ohio for your FM reception.If your dealer does not son recordings were made, most of the stock the Gallo FM Antenna System, send us his stories have been discounted, and his name and we'll see that he is supplied. less -than -overwhelming music, now on You don't risk a penny.If the Gallo FMS -101 antenna system does not perform as stipulated, long-playing records for the first time, Name you may returnit to your dealer with your sales has been explained away by some who check for a full refund within 10 days from date of purchase. The system, complete, is warranted say Bunk was too old then. Perhaps so, Address to be free from defective components for one full or perhaps he was not as great as his year from date of purchase. boosters insisted, but was only the figs' rallying point, in a futile attempt to pro- City Zone GALLO ELECTRONICS CORPORATION1 12 Potter Avenue, New Rochelle, N. Y. tect themselves from Parker's achieve- State E Please send me descriptive literature giving ment. Other performers on the record complete details of the Gallo EMS -101 Antenna are still around. Clarinetist George Lewis System HES. 53 still plays, and Chris Albertson recently NAME resurrected trombonist Jim Robinson for STREET a Riverside Living Legends series. But BELL STEREO CITY STATE Bunk is dead, and his records, such as Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc. My dealer's name and address is_ this, seem to me to be only weary exercises in an archaic style that should be left at rest. J. G. CIRCLE NO. 45 ON READER SERVICE CARD CIRCLE NO. 16 ON READER SERVICE CARD 72 HIFI/STEREO REVIEW RECORDING OF SPECIAL MERIT

i EDDIE LANG AND JOE VE- NUTI: Stringing the Blues. Eddie Lang (guitar), Joe Venuti (violin), various groups. Thirty-two selections. CoLummn two 12 -inch discs C2L 24 $7.98.

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For care in preparation and good taste in selection, Columbia's current jazz reissue series is unexcelled by similar Amer- ican ventures. The most recent release from the company's archives is a valuable anthology ofthejazzpartnership of THE ADC -1B Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti. The guitarist and the violinistfirst met in 1915 when both were in elementary school. Although their careers occasionally took different directions, they worked and recorded together often until Lang's death in 1933. THIS SPEAKER IS DESTINED TO BECOME Both were uniqueinstrumentalists. THE NEW STANDARD BY WHICH Venuti was the first hot -jazz violinist on records, and although he was later sur- ALL OTHERS WILL BE JUDGED. ENO...Woo Specilicetiens TREBLE UNIT MAGNETIC STRUCTURE passed by Stuff Smith, he achieved an FREQUENCY RESPONSE ADCI6 20.20 000 cps Res Density 15.000 Oersteds Tote' . 53.50C MaitreIls BASS UNIT MAGNETIC STRUCTURE improvisatoryskillandathoroughly Flux Density 12 700 Oersteds IMPEDANCE Ato 16 Ohms idiomatic way of phrasing still beyond Total Flu, 65 000 Mawells POWER REQUIREMENTS -10 to 65 watts R M ; THE PRICE 5250 the capacity of most jazz violinists. Venu- ti's temperament was mercurial, and his CA73Z4 IAUDIO DYNAMICS CORPORATION playing always reflected his antic wit and PICKETT DISTRICT ROAD, NEW MILFORD, CONNECTICUT passionate self-esteem. He was also a CIRCLE NO. 12 ON READER SERVICE CARD formidable technician. It is a measure of his accomplishment that his work on A DISTINGUISHED LIBRARY OF JEWISH, 1111=1111111111111=111111, these recordings from the years 1927 to ISRAELIandCANTOR/AL REPERTORY 1932 still has consistent interest-not only historical, but musical as well. NewestinROCKFORD Eddie Lang was harmonically progres- sive among guitarists of his time, and developed a fluid single -string solo style Acoustical Cabinetry more than a decade before Charlie Chris- tian came upon the scene. Lang, moreover, was melodically inventive, his sound was unusually warm, and his timing was more subtle than most of the white musicians of his era could manage. He was so convincing playing the blues that he successfully recorded with Lonnie John- Distinctive designer -styling son as "Blind Willie Dunn." Developed by acoustical engineers. Inthistwo -volumeset,Lang and JAN PEERCE -\ Cantonal Masterpieces Made by journeyman cabinetmakers. Venuti appear in diverse contexts. Some with chorus and orchestra of the most stimulating tracks capture conducted by Abraham Each unit is free-standing. forthcoming: Jan Peerce sings Acoustically engineered and furni- the small combo sessions in which they Jewish Folk Songs ture -crafted of selected woods. improvise duets. They are also heard KARMON ISRAELI Speaker enclosures lined with1" with such Twenties recording stalwarts Dancers and Singers acoustical fiberglass. Internally baf- asAdrianRollini,oftheblustering Israel Sings! fled and ported. No cabinetry feed- bass saxophone, and the Dorsey brothers. NETANIA DAVRATH back or resonance. Sings Yiddish Folk Songs with orchestra (Tommy, incidentally, plays a crackling conducted by Robert De Cormier FREE Illustrated brochure describing hot trumpet, rather than his customary equipmentcabinets, speaker en- MISCHA ELMAN closures in a wide variety of styles trombone,onseveralnumbers,and Plays Hebraic Melodies. Works by Achron, and finishes. Write to Jimmy appears briefly on cornet.) Par- Bloch, Laury, Bruch and others. Joseph ticularly satisfying are the duets between Seiger, piano. FURNITURE -CRAFTED BY Lang and Lonnie Johnson, and two per- ITAMAR Songs of Yemen & Israel OCKFOR formances combining the talents of Lang RSPECIALFIIRNITIIRI and King Joe Oliver. SHLOMO CARLEBACH at the Village Gate 2024 TWENTY-THIRD AVE ROCKFORD, ILL Among the occasional surprises are mono 8 stereo a solo by Frank Trumbauer on bassoon, flitVANGUARD Dealer bigotries invited (Continued on page 82) RECORDS CIRCLE NO. 63 ON READER SERVICE CARD CIRCLE NO. 56 ON READER SERVICE CARD MAY1963 73 and one by Adrian Rollini on what is Cuban rhythms with which he has been Recording: Very good identified in the accompanying material associated, is now concentrating on more Stereo Quality: Good as a "hot fountain pen." In one number, melodic and lyrical Latin-American ma- Bing Crosby, whom Eddie Lang accom- terial. More specifically, in view of the Alto saxophonist Ken McIntyre has been panied for a period, provides an example current ascendancy of bossa nova, Mann loosely placed in the same category as of unfettered 1932 scat singing. is focusing on that particular fusion of the Ornette Coleman and Eric Dolphy be- There is a wealth of lyrical, swinging subtle samba with jazz. cause ofhisspeech -likeinstrumental jazz in this documentary of an association In this predominantly bossa nova set, tone.Inhis adherencetochordse- now almost unknown to jazz newcomers. Mann and his colleagues are at ease in quences, however, he is more conserva- Richard DuPage has written an admir- the idiom, but they lack the wit, sensual- tive than the others. ably comprehensive biographical essay, ity, and tart sense of nostalgia that char- Laura,the one standard, shows McIn- and asisthe practice with Columbia acterize the Brazilian originators of the tyre's debt to Charlie Parker. But he is reissues, the discographical information form. There is, however, consistently at- a true original, and on this new album, is complete and clear. N. H. tractive work by marimbist Dave Pike, his best, he has got his tone and tech- guitarist Billy Bean, and vibist Haygood nique more firmly in hand than previ- 10 HERBIEMANN: Brazil, Bossa Hardy. Mann himself stilltends to be ously. Here he also doubles on a warm, Nova, & Blues.Herbie Mann (flute), bland, no matter what material he tries straightforward flute. Haygood Hardy (vibes), Billy Bean (gui- to adapt to jazz. N. H. Two superb musicians, Jackie Byard tar), Dave Pike (marimba), Carlos Val- and Ron Carter, support him, but un- dez (conga drum), Bill Salter (bass), RECORDING OF SPECIAL MERIT fortunately neither comes up to his best. Willie Bobo (drums), Jose Dc Paula Bassist Ahmad Abdul -Malik, who re- (tambourine), Carmen Costa (maracas). O0 KEN MC INTYRE:Year of the places Carter on one track, proves again Brazil; Copacabana; Minha Saudade; Iron Sheep.Ken McIntyre (alto saxo- that he is a strong, and underappreciated, B. N. Blues; One Note Samba; Me Faz phone and flute), John M. Lewis (trom- musician. The listed trombonist does not Recorar. UNITED ARTISTSUAJS 15009 bone), Jackie Byard and Ed Stoute play. $4.98, UAJ 14009* $4.98. (piano), Ron Carter and Ahmad Abdul - There are several interesting McIn- Malik (bass), Louis Hayes, Ben Riley tyre originals on the set. The most im- Interest: Lukewarm bossa nova and Warren Smith (drums).Say What; pressive isArisin',a slow lyrical number Performance: Soothing Arisin'; Laura; 96.5; Cosmos; Someday. on which McIntyre, sounding alittle Recording: Very good UNITED ARTISTSUAS 15015 $5.98, UAJ like both Oliver Nelson and Johnny Stereo Quality: Top-notch 14015 $4.98. Hodges, plays by far the finest solo he has ever put on records, to my way of Herbie Mann, as a result of his decision Interest: McIntyre's growth thinking. I. G. to de-emphasize the tumultuous Afro- Performance: Impressive (Continued on page 76)

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Recorded at the London House, Chicago, New RCA during what was clearly the dinner hour, this set by the Oscar Peterson Trio contains few surprises. As always, Ray Brown is extraordinary, both as a continually Studiomatic stimulating member of the rhythm section and as a formidably equipped soloist. Drummer Ed Thigpen is tasteful, and Changer fulfills his responsibilities as a partner in the trio, not just a timekeeper. The major flaw in the Peterson trio is the playing of the leader. Peterson has prodigious technique, but he too often 4111,01;: yields to the temptation of showing just how swiftly and thoroughly he can cover the keyboard. The quality of his imagination is thin and oddly dispassionate. For all the polish of Peterson's work, there is small indication of a markedly personal point of view toward the music he plays. He is, in short, a superior gram- marian who does not have much to say. Engineer Val Valentin is responsible for recorded soundthat hasunusually bracing presence. N. H.

RECORDING OF SPECIAL MERIT ® @ SONNY ROLLINS: Our Man in Jazz.Sonny Rollins( tenor saxophone), Don Cherry(cornet), Bob Cranshaw (bass),Billy Higgins (drums). Oleo; Dearly Beloved; Dory. RCA VICTOR LSP 2612 $4.98, LPM 2612* $3.98. Now the record changer developed expressly RESULT: RECORDS TEST -PLAYED for RCA Victor Total Sound Stereo Phono- OVER 3,000 TIMES SHOW NEGLIGI- graphs is available as a separate component Interest: Far-ranging improvisation BLE LOSS OF FIDELITY Performance: Rollins masterful forcustominstallationandreplacement. Recording: Good Bes des delivering brilliant sound in stereo PLUS: Scientifically balanced, rock - Stereo Quality:Very good or nonaural, the Studiomatic Changer is a steady cushionedturntable Automatic long-time investment in record protection: shut-off at end of last record Ultra -sensitive Living Stereo Ceramic Cartridge This is Sonny Rollins's third album for Protects Against Spindle Wear. King- Abil- ity to intermix 7", 10" and 12" records of the RCA, and it is easily several leagues be- size stabilizer holds records steady same speed Excellent stereo separation. yond the other two in daring and in and wobble-free-drops them gently achievement. Recorded on location at the with virtually no wear on center hole, Ask for it at your nearest RCA Victor dealer's. Village Gate in New York, the set, unlike thus eliminating a major cause of "wow." previous studio sessions, shows Rollins in Protects Against Groove Wear. Tone - RCA PARTS AND ACCESSORIES. CAMDEN. N.I. the churning context of completely spon- arm and stylus pressure are so light taneous collective improvisation. that no audible scratches are pro- The first side is taken up entirely by a 2duced if tone arm accidentally slides The Most Trusted Name twenty -five-minute version of Rollins's acrcss record. Precision -angled head assures in Sound Oleo. During much of this performance, true in -groove tracking over entire record. VIP he is a whirlwind of invention. Playing 76 CIRCLE NO. SO ON READER SERVICE CARD HIFI/STEREO REVIEW with sweeping confidence and swaggering But Shadow Waltz is a near -classic. (trumpet), Joe Pass (guitar), Mel Lewis tone, he provides a seminar in thematic Recorded at a time when Rollins's sar- (drums). Viva Tirado; Patterns; Latino; improvisation-elasticizing, contracting, casm was uppermost of all the qualities Jose fina; Teri; and four others. PACIFIC juggling-and then fusing motifs into a in his music, it is playful, sardonic, full JAzz $4.98. swirling whole. of inflected notes. It is still one of the Don Cherry, much more assertive now finest performances that Rollins has ever Interest:New big band than during his years with Omette Cole- recorded. Performance:Stimulating man, is not on Rollins's level of power The entire album has been remastered Recording: Good and imagination, but he is caught up in at a higher level, so that Rollins sounds the Rollins storm without losing his iden- harsher now. J. G. Gerald Wilsonis one of those musicians tity or balance. Cherry's tone could be whose reputation preceded his firstre- still fuller and deeper. The rhythm team RECORDING OF SPECIAL MERIT cording by a few years. He plays trumpet, is superb, both behind the hornmen and but is primarily an arranger, and mu- in their own solo statements-particularly 0 GERALD WILSON:Moment of sicians who had worked on the West the fascinating solo by Billy Higgins. Truth. Teddy Edwards and Harold Coast spoke highly of his music. This is What is most absorbing about the long, Land (tenor saxophones), Carmell Jones the second disc by his big band, mainly perilous Oleo odyssey is the variety of rhythms, sonorities, and moods (including a blues section) explored by the four. This first side can serve as a particularly illuminating demonstration of the challenges and fulfillments to be found in collective improvisation. The second side begins with a transformation of Dearly Beloved into a constantly shifting foundation for sponta- neous but complex solos.In the last. Doxy, Cherry is somewhat weaker in imagination than in preceding numbers, but Rollins is fiercely arresting. N. H.

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MAY1963 CIRCLE NO. 20 ON READER SERVICE CARD 77 a recording organization, and the music is a heartening sign in a time when most big bands arc rigid, disappointing, or ACOUSTECH I both. SOLID STATE Except for one George Russell -influ- POWER AMPLIFIED enced track by trombonist Les Robinson, all the music is Wilson's. His featured soloists are big -toned trumpeter Carmen CHARLES Jones, the fine saxophonist Teddy Ed- I liE - whose incisive drollery and wards (who has now begun to sound like originality* come through loud and Coltrane), and guitarist Joe Pass. This clear in a really fascinating selection is the first time I have heard Pass, whose of his chamber works and songs:

style varies from a basic blues solo on ChamberPieces:Hymn (largo Moment of Truth to an uncanny harp - cantabile), The Pond.Over the Pavements. Hallowe'en, Tone like sound on Teri. He is extraordinarily Roads No. 1 and 3. The Indians, "...better than the best..." fluent throughout, and is so superior to The Rainbow, Three -page Sonata states renowned audio expert Julian D. for Piano. the great majority of guitarists, thatI Hirsch in February, 1963 Hi-Fi/Stereo look forward to hearing him in a small - Songs:IchGentleNicht.The Review. Cage,GeneralBooth'sEntrance intoHeaven. AnElection, Re- group setting. ligion,"1,2,3",Ann Street, It is Wilson's album, however, no mat- Farewellto Land. READ THESE EXCERPTS FROM ter how good the soloists are. On various Corinne Curry. soprano; Luise HIS REPORT ... Vosgerchian,piano; The Boston tracks, he shows that he can turn straight Chamber Ensemble.HaroldFar- riffs, modality, or funk to personal use, berman,conductor. 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CHRISTIE BARTER Jr!t makes no attempt to do anything more perer version seemed to have barely a E.rplanation of symbols: than suggest a live performance heard chance of making it, since Angel was no- ®= monophonic recording from a good seat. toriously wary of committing much of its ® =stereophonic recording The Concerto for Orchestra, of course, catalog to this medium. But here it is, the is the perfect piece to illustrate the sound firstof two entries by the company's of an orchestra, and the Boston Sym- "house" conductor. RECORDING OF SPECIAL MERIT phony has both the ensemble and solo Under the circumstances, it would be virtuosity to play it as it should be played nice to be able to recommend Klemper- ID BARTOK: Concerto for Orchestra. -a virtuosity that Leinsdorf exploits to er's Fidelio without qualification. A num- Boston Symphony Orchestra, Erich the hilt. The performance is lucid and ber of reviewers of the disc performance Leinsdorf cond. RCA VICTOR FTC 2130 taut, yet lyrical. It is perhaps less subtle in have done so, yet, in the case of these $8.95. coloring than some, but its total impact reels, I cannot. The conductor, as might is great. C.B. be expected, has afirmgrasp of the score Interest: Leinsdorf-BSO debut and an intensely personal view of itto Performance: Vivid CI BEETHOVEN: Fidelio, Op. 72. project. It is unfortunate that he does not Recording: First-class Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), Lco- succeed in doing so-that his command Stereo Quality: Near -perfect nore; Jon Vickers(tenor),Florestan; of the vocal forces under his baton is less Ingeborg Hallstein (soprano), Marzcl- than compelling and that he fails to con- This tape is no bargain, reckoned strictly lina; Gerhard Unger (tenor), Jaquino; vey the impression of a wholly integrated in terms of total listening time, or com- performance. Thisis Klemperer's first pared with the prices of other excellent major operatic undertaking in a record- recordings of Bartok's ConcertoforOr- ing studio, and I think this shows. Com- chestra. Yet in this instance value cannot paring the two availabletapes, Hans be equated with cost. For here is one of Knappertsbusch leads a Fidelio that in the very finest reels in the catalog today some respects might he considered weak it offers a major contemporary score, a in an opera house. Its pace is slow, for performance that may be rivaled but one thing, so thatit runs about fifteen surely not surpassed, and recorded sound minutes longer than Klemperer's (not that exemplifies the art of musical repro- counting the Leonore Overture No. 3, duction at its most refined. which Klemperer omits). But the impact It is also the first recording by the Bos- of the Knappertsbusch performance is ton S: komny under its new conductor, great. Klemperer, whose tempos are gen- Erich Leinsdorf. The Bartok Concerto erally more buoyant from the start, only is an especially appropriate choice, since rarely makes us forget that this is after all it was commissioned by the late Serge a studio re-creation, a patchwork. Koussevitzky in 1943, when he was the Hisprincipals respondaccordingly. orchestra's conductor, anditwas first Christa Ludwig, a mezzo-soprano, isa performed in Boston the following year. kind of dark -horse Leonore and a very Some space in the liner notes is given good one. She does not, however, invest to a description by Richard Mohr, music her characterization with a personal iden- director of RCA Victor's Red Seal opera- LEINSDORF tification, as does Sena Jurinac under tions, of the preparations that preceded Unsurpassed performance in his BSO debut Knappertsbusch's leadership. Ifeel she the first recording sessions at Symphony might have done so to a greater extent Hall in Boston. Apparently in an effort Gottlob Frick(bass), Rocco; Walter under a conductor more mindful of the to get from the orchestra exactly the Berry (baritone), Pizarro; Franz Crass unique problem of getting an operatic sound Leinsdorf wanted, tests were made (baritone), Minister. Philharmonia Or- characterization across ina recording. to explore the hall's sonic possibilities. chestra and Chorus, Otto Klemperer The same may be said for Jon Vickers. a These tests were subsequently evaluated cond. ANGEL ZC 3625 two reels $21.95. tenor with a fine voice, but one who ur- and led to an extension of the stage by gently needs direction. His idea of Flores - some eleven feet and the use of risers in InterestBeethoven's only opera tan is essentially correct, but he flounders each section. The latter is one of Leins- Performance: Unimpressive on some points of style and technique- dorf's major innovations. As a result, the Recording: Very good particularly proper volume levels. His orchestra'sbrasshas moreheftand Stereo Quality: Adequate initial outburst on the words"Gott, welch sounds more open than it has in previous Dunkel hier!" is overpowering, but all BSO recordings, and the timpani, now First, a salute to the Recording Angel, out of proportion to the subdued lament dead -center and approximately two feet who with this release and the Strauss col- that follows. Similarly, in the trio, his offthestagefloor,areconsiderably lection reviewed below, seems to be enter- vocal emphasis is often much too strong. sharper in focus. Thus, the objective, "to ing the tape market in earnest. As noted This is the sort of thing the artist himself reproduce for records the unique sound in these columns last November when the should hear. but if he does not, the con- of the Boston Symphony Orchestra," is Knappertsbusch Fidelio was issued on ductor most certainly should. 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MAY1963 81 accustomed and in which he was presum- tape. Both the Bruch and the Mozart ably on his own, contributes a splendid, represent the veteran artist at his sover- BRAND NEW menacing portrayal of Pizarro, and Gott - eign best. The liner notes do not make lob Frick repeats the excellent Rocco he the point that both concertos were writ- has recorded earlier. Ingeborg Halistein ten when their composers were nineteen FOR/63 is an able though somewhat tremu!ous years of age, but this is the only reason I ManeBina, and Gerhard Unger a first- can see for pairing them. The eighty years rate Jaquino. separating them makes a whale of a dif- The sound is good, solid in the bass, ference, particularly in the technical and and not overly bright on top. Stereo stylistic demands they make on the solo- movement is discreet. The only real tech- ist. Yet itisa difference Heifetz sur- nical mistake is the miking on the "Ab- mounts completely and with apparent scheulicher!," which has Miss Ludwig so ease. The recording's sole flaw is its fail- far to the right that she seems to be sing- ure to come to grips with the problem of ing from the wings. Act I is contained on the "spreading Focus on the solo the first reel, divided between scenes, and instrument is decidedly poor. C. B. Act II occupies the second reel, corre- sponding to sides five and six in the LP OO JONGEN: Symphonie Concertante version and breaking at the end of the for Organ and Orchestra. Virgil Fox trio. No libretto is included. The tape on (organ); Orchestre du Thatre National the first reel, in the set submitted for re- de l'OpCra, Paris. George's Pretre cond. view, was wound on in reverse, requiring CAPITOL.ZP 8573 $7.98. 1111 Puts your components or thewail where hey may be enjoyed so conveniently. A ref riaShing new aoroach some fast -forwarding and rewinding to to express your individualityOffe-s a thousard and arrive at the proper playing sequence. Interest: Minor but pretty work one decorative possibilities. Complete with equipment C. B. enclosure, record shelf, custom panel and concealed Performance: Robust wall supports. Finishec in Oiled Walnut. $611.60 Recording: Excellent ® BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique, Stereo Quality: Fine Op. 1-I. Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy cond.COLUMBIAMQ 496 Thisthirty -five-minutework,though written in 1933 by a Belgian who was director of the Brussels Conservatoire, is Interest: Popular Berlioz unmistakably French-in style somewhat Performance: Vigorous to the left of Franck and to the right of Recording: Sharp Poulenc as organ music goes, and draw- Stereo Quality: Adequate ing much from Debussy and Ravel in its use of masses of sound for atmospheric This Symphonic fantastique is the sixth effect. But this is not to say thatitis not on tape, but good as it is, it must take at an attractive work in its own right. It is least second place to the recent Charles here recorded for thefirsttime, and Munch recording (RCA Victor FTC splendidly performed. The recording, 303Award winning design created for "Shelf Speak- 2113). The Onnandy treatment is color- made at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, ers." Place your shelf speakers a'. each end and in- ful enough, but in the main it lacks the is undoubtedly one of the best wi", e its stantly a beautiful Stereo Mu tic Center is erected. Has adjustable component shelves, siding changer/turn- inner tension and excitement generated solution of the problem of pitting a large, table pull-out shelf and place for hundreds ofecords by Munch and the Boston Symphony, modern organ against a full symphony and tape deck, too. Os.er six feet long. 5100.60 especially in the Witches' Sabbath. The orchestra. Usually one or the other suffers Columbia recording. too, tends to be a in the contest of might, but not here. little too brassy and strident in the mid- Some credit goes to the composer, an or- range, to lack adequate support in the ganist himself, whose orchestration com- bass-and it commits the cardinal sin of plements the tonal resources of the solo breaking the Scene in the Fields between instrument. The stereo engineering, how- sequences. The Boston Symphony tape ever, is absolutely topnotch. The organ's has the first three movements on one se- 16- and 32 -foot stops are rock -solid on quence without interruption. C. B. the bass end, and the upper registers of organ and orchestra alike are cleanly re- ® BRUCH: Viol's Concerto No. 1, in produced, without undue brightness. G Minor, Op. 25. MOZART: Violin C. B. Concerto No.I.in I) Major, K. 218. Jascha Heifetz : New Symphony RECORDING OF SPECIAL MERIT Orchestra of London, Sir Malcolm Sar- 104 Stunning equipment cabinei: that featu.es two gent cond. RCA Vicron FTC 2133 $8.95. ® MOZART: Quartet No. 11, in C; big pull-out drawers,, one for changer/turntable, the Major, K. 387; Quartet No. 18, in A other for hundreds of retorts or tape deck et your fingertips. Beautifully accented fronts in cane or match- Interest: Strange coupling Major, K. 464. Juilliard String Quartet. ing veneers. 599.50 Performance: Masterful EPICEC 827 $7.95. All are carefully craftad from genuine hardeionds and Recording: Good superbly finished to natch emery decor. See the complete line at leading HiFt dialers or write for free Stereo Quality: Poor focus Interest: Major Mozart brochure. Performance: Impeccable Jascha Heifetz's recording of the Bruch Recording: First-rate cudio concerto replaces an earlier monophonic Stereo Quality: Nicelybalanced disc, also with Sir Malcolm as conduc- Y'lg"lllc`is DEPT. A0-1 tor, and enters the catalog as the fourth, This reel introduces two of the"Haydn" 474 S.MERIDIANST. INDIANAPOLIS 25, INDIANA and probably the best, performance on (Continued on page 84) CIRCLE NO. 15 ON READER SERVICE CARD 82 HIFI/STEREO REVIEW THE ELOQUENCE AND SPLENDOR OF SONY SOUND

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The seventh "Unfinished"on tape faces Model No. FAV-2 has the added featureof plug and some stiff competition, notably from re- COMMAND jack supplied for additional cordings by Walter (Columbia MQ 391) external speakers. and Reiner (RCA Victor FTC 2090), yet it combines some of the best quali- PERFORMANCE ties of both-lyricism, warmth, and a with Three Position Speaker Switch fine senseof rhythmic control.Skro- This Model, No. FSS-1 is a complete re- waczewski conducts a wonderfully ebul- The London moteswitching systemforHi-Fior lient performance of the familiar work, Stereo speaker systems. The one that for allits Byronic flair is not Symphony Orchestra threepositionswitch will without discipline. His Rosamunde, too, operate single speaker sys- conducted by tem, remote system or both. has a youthful charm. The orchestra is ModelNo. FSS-2 hasthe fairly closely miked, so that the strings added advantage of external tend to be a little fibrous and the winds Richard Bonynge plug and jack, supplied for additional external speakers. breathy. The over-all sound, however, is Webs. Oberon-Ocear! Thcu Mighty Mounting brackets & instruc- full-bodied and evenly balanced. C. B. Monster; Massenet: Le Cid - Pleurez mes tions included. yeux Meyerteer: Dinorah-Shadow Song; Leomavallo: Pagliacci - Recit and Bal- RECORDING OFSPECIAL MERIT latella; Verdi:I Masnadieri-Tu del mio speaker u all Plate Outlet Carlc; Verdi: Luisa Mille --11u peniscini ® STRAUSS:Till Eulenspiegel; Sa- o Signore; Rossini: La Ca Tibiz le di Matri- Model No. FAS-1PK, comes in brown or lome: Dance of the Seven Veils; Don monto - Vor-ei Spiegarvi;Dellini:Bea- ivory polystyrene flush mounting outlet. Juan.PhilharmoniaOrchestra,Otto trice di Tenca-Deh' se un urna; Arditi: Speaker socket and plug are Klemperer cond.ANGEL. ZS35737 $7.98. Parla!; RicciCrispin() e la Comma - lo polorized andsolderless. non sono piu l'annetta; TostiIdeale; Ar- Idealfor custom Hi-Fi in- diti:IIBacio; Tosti: La Serenata; Leon- stallation where remote Interest: Three by Strauss cava lo: Mattinata; Bisbcp: Lo Hear The speakers are not permanent- Gentle Lark; FlotowMartha - The Last ly installed. Complete with Performance: Well done Recording: Very good Rose Of Summer; Wallace: Maritana - mountingbrackets andin- Scenes That Are Brightest;Bathe: Bo- Stereo Quality: Just right structions. Model No. FAS- hemian Girl-I Dreamt I Dwelt; Bishop: 11I3K has the double advan- Home Sweet Home. tage of two outlets. Combinations of Strauss's tone poems arc Stereo0SA1254 MorcA4254 practically limitless, and this reel offers Affi7.512y ekin.072t. two of the shortest and most popular. along with the usual dance of Salome. 7tOltipOk:fire/ 4610 N. Lindbergh Blvd. - Bridgeton, Mo. 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'I PERSUASIVE PERCUSSION BRAHMS SYMPHONY NO. 2 formed before. Now this great Amer- I."...concentrationon stimulating3.in D.Op 73. ican musical - marking Command's musical quality... remarkable William Steinberg/ entrance into this field - rings out clarity and range." with a magnificence that rivals the PittsburghSymphcny Orch.original opening night. NEW YORK TIMES "The summit in sound." Therecord that made critics say, N. Y. HERALD TRIBUNE "Stereo didn't make COMMAND; THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL COMMAND made stereo!" With Per-When Command enteredthe classical5.by Richard Brinsley Sheridan suasive Percussion the true musicalfield, it was with this recording of the excitement of stereo became a fact.Brahms 2nd which was called "the "Performance dazzling ...record- Exploiting the full color of popularbest classical orchestral album of ing immaculate... stereo ingen- music, Persuasive Percussion became1961," and one of the finest Brahms ious ... considered a summation a gigantic first in a new and excitingever recorded. Since that memorable of all the resources of stereo." way to experience sound. It was, asoccasion, Command albums of Wag- HI-FI STEREO REVIEW the New York Times stated, "destinedner, Beethoven, Debussy, Ravel and to turn the recording industry topsymany more have been greeted withDirect from its triumphant perform- turvy." highest praise and critical acclaim.ances on Broadway and in London All bear Command's almost fanaticalcomes this superb Command record- insistence on perfection that placesing of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's its Classics in a position without peer.The School for Scandal. Recorded in STEREO 35/MM London with the original cast headed by Sir Ralph Richardson and Sir John 2."With this spectacular recording Gielgud, the listener is afforded over Enoch Light's COMMAND label CAROUSELby Rodgersandtwo hours of recorded theatrical has crossed one more threshold to splendor. Here in this Command re- the ultimate in sound." 4.Hammerstein starring Alfred Drake and Roberta Peters. cording the spoken word is raised to HIGH FIDELITY MAGAZINE its full dignity and glory. "I have played your album of This is the album that accomplished 'Carousel' with tremendous en- the greatest leap forward in stereo. It joyment and find it extremely was Command who perfected the tech- sensitive and beautifully made in For free, full color brochure every way." nique of master recording originals of all Command releases, on 35 mm magnetic films. Through (Signed) RICHARD RODGERS this method Command made it pos- WRITE TO: sible to bring sound of such scope andNot content with creating breathtak- intensity right into your own livinging reproductions of great music, room that you actually feel the pres-Command has gone on to add a new WORLD LEADER ence of each instrument. Here wasdimension to the musical theatre with IN RECORDED SOUND music with absolutely no mechanicalperformers who match the greatness distortion coupled with "almost unbe-with their own stature. With a bril- lievable" purity. No wonder LIFEliant cast starring Alfred Drake and RECORDS called this, "the season's biggestRoberta Peters, you hear the music of ear opener!" Carousel as it has never been per -1501 Broadway, New York 36, N. Y.

MAY 1963 CIRCLE NO. 24 ON READER SERVICE CARD ti7 The world's smallest watch, $3000 from last season's flop musical All-Amer- solos are supple, and flow smoothly with Courtesy of Vacheron 8 Constantin-LeCoultre Watches, Inc. ican, is unbeatable. But Bennett, in char- a kind of quiet intensity; his sidemen, acteristically mediocre voice, does much including guitarists Barry Galbraith and to obliterate the high quality of the songs Howard Collins, support him with sub- by laboring over the obvious in each and tlety and grace. The gentle spirit of the every lyric. C. B. bossa nova is never violated. The per- Swiss precision formances are complemented by clean, ® SERGIO FRANCHI: Romantic undistorted sound that is totally free of Italian Songs. Sergio Franchi (tenor); gimmickry. C. B. orchestra and chorus, Wally Scott cond. Core Sigrato; Funiculi-Funicula; 0 sole mio; Alattinata; and eight others. RCA VICTORFTP 2127 $7.95.

Interest:Lanza's successor? Performance: Idiomatic Recording:Good Stereo Quality: Good

After Sergio Franchi's smashing success on TV in Britain moved Sol Hurok to sign him for an American tour sight un- seen, Franchi arrived last fall and almost immediately took up semi-officialresi- dence on the Ed Sullivan Show. Insiders indicated he could easily fill the vacuum left in the hearts of Mario Lanza's avid following. On the evidence presented here, he should. His voice, though at times it betrays a lack of training, has the stuff from which voices of gold are made. Franchisings,too,withconsiderable flair, just what the standard fare on this introductory reel calls for. The recording THOREN5 cannot be faulted. C. B. ® COLEMAN HAWKINS: Desafi- TD -124 nado. Coleman Hawkins (tenor saxo- SERGIO FRANCHI TRANSCRIPTION TURNTABLE phone); sextet. Desafinado; I'm Looking Filling the Lanza gap CRAFTSMANSHIP - unique in its preci- Over a Four Leaf Clover; Samba przra sion - superlative in its design and style. Bean; I Remember You; and four others. ® GYPSY (Jule Styne-Stephen Sond- These are the marks of a fine Swiss watch; IMPULSEITC 303 $7.95. on these qualities the Swiss firm of Thorens helm). Sound -track recording. Rosalind has built its reputation. Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, No one surpasses the Swiss in precision man- Interest:Thenew bag PaulWallace; chorus and orchestra, ufacturing. And no one has surpassed the Performance: In the frame precision -crafted Thorens TD -124 either ... FrankPerkinscond. WARNER BROS. with its built-in versatility, its more con- Recording: Very good WSTC 1480 $7.95. veniences, more features than any other Stereo Quality: Same turntable available. A mere glance beneath the table tells you Interest: Great score why: Machined parts, precision balanced, Riding the crest of the musical nouvelle PerformanceDull polished to mirror-like finishes - no mere vague called the bossa nova, the Coleman Recording: Fair metal stampings these! The finest features Stereo Quality: One-sided of a belt drive ... plus idler wheel .. . plus Hawkins Sextet makes an auspicious an 111,4 pound, machine -balanced table! debut on tape. With two Verve reels by Visit a franchised dealer, and see the TD -124 and all the family of fine Thorens turntables Stan Getz, this release is the best of its No use further bewailing the fact that .. compare with any other! Or write us for kind, leading off with the bossa nova hit Rosalind Russell, in the film version of fullspecifications. Dept.I -IFS -5 Desafinado by Antonio Carlos Jobim, a Gypsy, sings (with assistance from Lisa Guaranteed for One Full Year. leader of the movement, and following Kirk) the role created by Ethel Merman. TD -124-$125 netBASES from $10 to $35 with others-Joao Gilberto's Urn Abraco There isjust no comparison between no Bonfd (credited to an "unknown" this rather leaden sound -track recording Thorens TD -121 $85 net composer inthelinernotes), Jayme of Gypsy and the altogether brilliant job ... a new Swiss - Silva's 0 Pato, and Jobim's One Note by the Broadway castfor Columbia, precision Thorens Samba (Samba de una nota so). The sparked by Miss Merman's energetic for those requir- inclusion of I'm Looking Over a Four lead (OQ 434). Jule Styne's remarkably ing only 331/2 rpm or other single Leaf Clover is not so capricious as it may fine score is here left pretty much in- speed. seem. It was on a Capitol disc by Gil- tact, at least. Paul Wallace repeats his berto that introduced the bossa nova up heart-warming rendition of All I Need ELPA North in the early 1960's, so it has a Is the Girl, but the rest is simply a pale certain claim to status in this genre. carbon copy of a never -to -be -forgotten What makes this set as good as itis original. The present recording is often ELPA MARKETING INDUSTRIES, Inc. quite muffled and hollow in sound, and THORENS DIVISION New Hyde Park, N. Y. is the ease with which Hawkins adapts to the jazz -samba style and the restraint stereo directionality is minimal, tending In Canada: Tri-Tel Associates Ltd., Willowdale, Ont.he exercises throughout. His long -lined to favor the left channel. C. B. CIRCLE NO. 31 ON READER SERVICE CARD 88 HIFI/STEREO REVIEW TWO WAYS TO MEASURE THE RESPONSE

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Explanation of symbols: current set, her small voice is almost Fallait-il.. .; Polichinelle; and nine ®=monophonic recording buried by Benny Carter's insistently for- others.CAPITOL ST 10328 $4.98, T ®=stereophonic recording ward orchestra. S. G. 10328* $3.98. '=mono or stereo version not received for review ® 0 ENOCH LIGHT: Big Band Interest: For the fans Bossa Nova. Orchestra, Enoch Light Performance:Piaf perfect cond. Perdido; Brazil; Besame Mucho; Recording: Verygood ® ® NAT "KING" COLE: Ramblin' and nine others. COMMAND RS 844 SD Stereo Quality: Satisfactory Rose. Nat "King" Cole (vocals); orches- $5.98, RS 33844* $4.98. tra and chorus, Belford Hendricks cond. As one who has always reveled in Piaf's Twilight on the Trail; Goodnight Irene; Interest: Lively program songs of suffering,I must reluctantly The Good Times; and nine others. CAPI- Performance. Stereophonic confess that this current collation offers TOL ST 1793 $4.98, T 1793* $3.98. Recording: Great sound little that has not been done better be- Stereo Quality: Directional fore. Charles Dumont, who is responsible Interest: Back -country repertoire for ten of the twelve selections, has cre- Performance: Smooth and relaxed It was, of course, inevitable that Enoch ated rather monotonous melodies that arc Recording: Satisfactory Light would latch on to the bossa nova. all too obviously plotted for the big socko Stereo Quality: lacks depth Fronting a twenty -one-piece orchestra of ending that finds the lady flailing away outstanding sidemen, he and arranger in grief-present or anticipated. I prefer In his constant search for novel musical the two contributions of Mikis Theo- packages to put on long-playing records, 5 dorakis,Les amants deTeruel and Nat "King" Cole frequently travels Quatorze Juillet, though the latter sounds through territory where he is definitely a more like a Mexican street festival than an outlander. Following his recent mis- it does Bastille Day. Translations are on guided Spanish efforts, he has now chosen the jacket. S. G. the equally bumpy road of country and western songs. While his singing is here ® LALO SCHIFRIN:Piano, more relaxed-almost to the point of Strings, and Bossa Nova. Lalo Schifrin trailing off completely at times-the rep- (piano);strings and percussions. The ertoire consists largely of the maudlin Waoe; Silvia; Maria;and nine others. sentiments and juvenile emotions that MGM SE 4110 $4.98, E 4110* $3.98. are so large a part of this type of music. S. G. interest:Buoyant program Performance: Stylish ® PEGGY LEE: Sugar 're Spice. Recording: Satisfactory Peggy Lee (vocals); orchestra, Benny Stereo Quality: Effective Carter cond. I Believe In You; The Sweetest Sounds; Big Bad Bill; and nine Backed by strings on the left and per- others. CAPITOLST 1772 $4.98, T 1772* cussion on the right, pianist Lalo Schif- $3.98. rin offers a dozen melodies in a strikingly LALO SCHIFRIN originalandcompellingbossanova Compelling freshness for the bossa nova Interest: Uneven collection treatment. Schifrin is blessed with both Performance: Her usual firm rhythmic control and the ability Lou Davies have created a series of to last Recording: Very good extract every bitof melodic bright, appealing interpretations of the subtlety from his material, and he takes Stereo Quality: Lacking presence current musical fad, using both new and full advantage of the opportunities pre- familiar melodies. This is not the kind sented by the use of a string section on Granted that Peggy Lee has an unerring of bossa nova the purists will go for, but this disc. rhythmic sense and an ethereal vocal the combination of Light's musicianship Personally, I feel that if it has done quality, I retain a nagging doubt about and Command's sound help create a nothing else, the popularity of bossa nova her fans' claim that she isa supreme frequently exciting disc. Desafinado, the rhythm has brought forward a number vocalist. My chief complaint is that she bossa nova national anthem, is here, as of sc.ngs that have an unusual degree of seldom seems to be truly involved with well as tributes to local institutions such melodic sophistication. In this collection, her material. No matter how personal as Take the "A" Train and Lullaby of Rapaz de Bern, Murmurio, and the the sentiment, her approach is so unfail- Birdland. S. G. closer -to -home Time for Love by Leon- ingly aloof that I am more conscious of ard Feather are melodies of uncommon the singer's technique than I am of the 0 EDITH PIAF: Chansons. Edith richness and, I hope, lasting appeal for intention of the song. Moreover, in the Piaf (vocals); orchestra. Toujours aimer; musicians. S. G. MAY 1963 91 Os CAROL SLOANE: Live at Thir- GUARANTEED tiethStreet.CarolSloane(vocals); rhythm accompaniment. Spring Is Here; you FM and FM STEREO Never Never Land; Chicago; and nine others.COLUMBIACS 8723 $4.98, CL can play Up to 200 Miles! 1923* $3.98.

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Bessinger, Jr. (reader).CAEDMON r r14' , synchronize sound for home and early twentieth centuries, Miss Day- TC 1151 $5.95. movies. Can be used as a rath is at full idiomatic ease. She has public address system. mastered the buoyant rhythms and un- Interest: Chaucer in Middle English flagging ardor of the Chassidic style and Performance: Faultless OUTDOORabllity Whither thou goest, Miran- is equally expert at secular lullabies, tales Recording: Good dette goes too . . . up of robbery and disaster, and gentle love mountains, down caves, on sail boat or sale call. All songs. Mr. Bessinger is not only an authority on four standard batteries. A superior musician, Miss Davrath is on the man who was perhaps England's Interference free .. . use able to apply the skills of aclassical first important poet, but he also reads the in car, train, etc. singer without patronizing or chilling stuff more than passing well. The album her material. Her voice is full, pliant, and includes a good part of the General Pro- PORTability Mirandetteplaysallthe warm. The recording would have been logue, in which is described a group of angles. On shoulderor a total success were it not for the orches- pilgrims thrown together by a delay on desk, speed remains con- tral arrangements by Robert DeCormier. their journey to Canterbury to visit the stant.Measures a mere 7V.," x 7'h" x 3".All -tran- His scores are somewhat too sentimental, shrine of Thomas a Becket; they later sistorizedcircuitrykeeps they make their narrative points too ob- regale each other with a series of divert- weight under 7 lbs. viously, and the instrumental forces are ing and instructivetales.In the pro- toolargeforsuchintimatetunes. logue, the author describes each of theENJOYabllity A small, semi -improvisatory ensemble characters minutely, and such character (117"--t Push button ease, fast for- t:...------ward and rewind, recording would have been much more suitable. delineation has never been surpassed. 1...700,0601g3 level indicator, 31/4 and 1'h The liner contains full translations. N. H. Although a text is provided, the pack- ips, capstan drive for playing prerecorded tapes, agers seem here to assume a knowledge 21/4" x 4" speaker, external THEATER of Middle English (which sounds like the speaker jack. track of an Ingmar Bergman movie) on ® ® SING OUT, SWEET LAND! the part of the purchaser. You can un- Original -castrecording. Alfred Drake, derstand most of the language by simul- Burl Ives, Alma Kaye, Bibi Osterwald, taneously looking and listening, but it is Jack McCauley, Juanita Hall; chorus a rather demanding exercise. Folkways, and orchestra,Elie Siegmeister cond. which presents a portion of the prologue DECCADL 74304 $4.98, DL 4304* $3.98. and several of the tales on FL 9859, sur- mounted this handicap by including, in Interest: A classic the margin of their text, modern equiva- C") Performance: First-rate company lents of the more obscure old words. Recording: Very good Otherwise, the Caedmon releaseisof Stereo Quality: Good doctoring equal merit, and duplicates very little. It ends with Chaucer's famous retraction Although Sing Out. Street Land! lasted of his work, which he wrote to appease a bare hundred performances on Broad- the Church. P. K. way in 1944, it has long been revered by both theater and folk -music buffs. Decca's CHAUCER:The Canterbury Tales: original -cast album is here repackaged The Pardoner's Tale, Michael MacLiam- and stereophonically reprocessed- moir (reader); The Miller's Tale, Stan- Under 9cluding though this is not stated on the jacket- leyHolloway (reader). CAEDMONTC dynamic i.,,shone with remote controls, 3" extra - and it is most welcome. Here are Alfred 1130 $5.95. play tape, takeup reel, AC Drake, fresh from his Oklahoma! tri- cord, carrying strap. Other umph, and Burl Ives, with the sweetest Interest: Solid Chaucerian spice accessories available. voice this side of Old Smoky, leading a Performance: Exactly right fine cast through a collection of seven- Recording: Fine teen folk and folk -inspired songs. Seldom has the spirit of these pieces been caught There seems to be alot of Chaucer as effectively. A special nod must go to headed this way, most of it in Middle Drake's touching II fanderin'. Conductor English, but the two talcs read here have Elie Siegmeister arranged the selections been translated into the language we and also contributed the music for the speak, so you don't need a special course rousing opening number, As I Was Going in medieval literature to understand it. 0)1,-tkit Along. Mr. MacLiammoir reads the Pardoner's As I pointed out, this is not real stereo- Tale, in which the avaricious pardoner phonic sound, in spite of Decca's decep- among the pilgrims on their way to Can- Tv® tive claim. Don't be surprised that the terbury rails against avarice in a sancti- voices of the four singers in Frankie and monious description of some fellows who Johnny and the threein The Rosin' undid themselves through their greed for Gambler are all bunched in the middle. gold. The relish of MacLiammoir's ap- I was also disappointed that the singers proach is quite infectious. The piece de IRANDEiiE ALLIED IMPEX CORPORATION are not linked with their songs either resistance, though, is on side two, where 300 PARK AVENUE SOUTH, NEW YORK 10, N.Y. CISCAGO 45, ILL. DALLAS 7, TEX. LOS ANGELES 16, CALIF. on the jacket or on the label. S. G. (Continued on page 95) net Your Drier For F.7:1 Price®Re: B. Pried tuiveC:':EscU SImporter CIRCLE NO. 4 ON READER SERVICE CARD MAY 1963 ')3 HiFi / STEREO MARKET PLACE

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Timner, Box 244, Cedarburg, Michell contributing a wonderfully blunt Wisc. pects that Olivier, for example, empha- and stubborn Bolingbroke with just the AUTHORS' Learn how to have your book published, sized in his spectacular movie version. right amount of the common touch. The promoted,distributed.Free booklet "ZD," Vantage, 120 West 31 St., New York 1. Jeavons is best in the long soliloquies, portrayal of the wily Duchess of York PUBLISH your book! loin our successful authors: pub- especially the subtly subversive one in by Hazel Hughes is one of the most licity advertising promotion, beautiful books. All sub- which Henry compares his lot unfavor- jectsinvited. Send forfree appraisal and detailed memorable contributions in an album booklet. Carlton Press, Dept. ZDQ, 84 Fifth Avenue. ably with that of an army private. He is that abounds in them. N.Y C.11. never,though,sufficientlyforcefulor Peter Wood makes the play move as tough-fibered for this role. The direction suspensefully as a film, but he knows is brisk and resourceful, the supporting how to slow and build to the great poetic cast strong, and there is a fine sheen to moments that emerge like arias in a the entire presentation.Itis hard to grand opera, the jewels of the crown. YOUR COPIES OF imagine a more charming rendition of Soundeffects,musicalbridges,and the closing scenes, in which Catherine crowd noises are used sparingly but tell- Clouzot makes a most delicious Kather- ingly, and the stereo recording contrib- II in/Stemp, ine of the French court, and Jeavons, utes considerably to the great breadth freed from the exigencies of the military of the scenes of action. P. K. ARE VALUABLE scenes that arc not really his cup of tea, plays the courtship episode sensitively RECORDING OF SPECIAL MERIT and winningly. He is quite a bit better performing this side of Henry than he C. ® SHAKESPEARE: The Rape of is as the "wretched and peevish fellow" Lucrece and Other Poems. Richard the Dauphin lost his country to by teas- Burton, Dame Edith Evans, Sir Donald ing. All in all, a fine introduction to the Wolfit (readers).CAEDMONShakespeare Keep them neat ... moods, range, and plot of a great play. Recording Society 239 two 12 -inch discs P. K. clean ... ready for stereo and mono $11.90. instant reference! RECORDING OF SPECIAL MERIT Interest:Shakespearean poetry Performance: Matchless 10 ® SHAKESPEARE:King Richard Recording: Good Now you can keep a year's copies of II. John Gielgud, Keith Michell, Leo Stereo Quality: Erratic HiFi/STEREO REVIEW inarich - McKern, others. Peter Wood, director. CAEDMONShakespeare Recording Soci- Long before the Italians were making looking leatherette file that makes it ety 216 three 12 -inch discs stereo and movies-in 1594, as a matter of fact- easy to locate any issue for ready ref- mono $17.85. Shakespeare wrote the vivid Rape of Lucrece, a narrative poem in which the erence. Interest: Shakespeare masterpiece Roman, Tarquin, posts to Collatium to Performance: Gala Specially designed for HiFi/STEREO have his way with his friend Collatine's Recording: Topnotch "fair love, Lucrece the chaste." Never REVIEW, this handy file-with its dis- Stereo Quality: Realistic was lust portrayed with less obscenity, nor yet with more vividness, as "pure tinctive, washable Kivar cover and 16 - Richard II, withits glowing poetical chastityisrifled of her store" leaving carat gold leaf lettering-not only looks passages and set speeches,isnot only "lust, the thief, far poorer than before." one of the most ingratiating of Shake- Mr. Burton reads the long poem in spine - good but keeps every issue neat, clean speare's historical plays to the car, but chilling tones, right down to the classic and orderly. offers atthe same time a trem,ndous moment of revenge. His is the right voice opportunity and challenge to the per- for the job. It wanders, however, from So don't risk tearing and soiling your former in the title role. As Richard is speaker to speaker in the stereo version, undone by the cousin whose life he has for no good reason and quite disconcert- copies of HiFi/STEREO REVIEW-al- spared, and the foundations of his con- ingly. The Passionate Pilgrim (much of ways a ready source of valuable infor- fidence and his kingdom arc shaken in which is attributed to writers other than the mountingly gripping episodes that Shakespeare), concerned mainly with the mation. Order several of these HiFi/ lead to his arrest and murder, the char- pursuit of the comely Adonis by the lust- STEREO REVIEW volume files today. acter must move from detachment and fulVenus,is given the benefit of the loftiness to speeches that blaze with music virtuoso voices of Donald Wolfit (on the They are $2.50 each, postpaid -3 for and lightning eloquence, and finally to a left speaker) and Dame Edith Evans (on plaintive nobility as Richard must "give the right), which is casting with a ven- $7.00, or 6 for $13.00. Satisfaction guar- thisheavy weight from off my head,/ geance. The Sonnets Set to Music al- anteed, or your money back. Andthisunwieldy sceptrefrom my most seem to be music the way the same hand,/The pride of kingly sway from team delivers them, and the wry parable Order direct from: out my heart." All this is meat and drink of The Phoenix and the Turtle (concern- to John Gielgud, who wraps himself in ing, like most parables, the race between JESSE JONES BOX CORP. majestic remoteness during the early Good and Evil-except that in this one, scenes, downstaging the rest of the cast Good takes a terrible beating)is most Dept. 11F. Box 5120, Philadelphia 41.Pa. by his underplaying until, gradually, he movingly delivered by Wolfit. It is doubt- moves into the forefront of the action ful that there are three actors alive who (Established 1843) and his voice becomes the dominant in- could compete with thetrio featured strument. He is surrounded by a dream here. Texts arc included. P. K. MAY 1963 97 HI FI / STEREO REVIEW ADVERTISERS' INDEX

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1 Acoustech,Inc. 78 45 Gallo Electronics Corporation 72 2 Acoustic Research,Inc. 20 Goodwin (Sales) Ltd., C. C. 94 36 Grado Laboratories, Inc. 3 Airex Radio Corporation 78 64 37 Grommes, Division of Precision Electronics, Inc. 6 4 Allied Impex Corporation 93 4th COVER 5 Altec Lansing Corporation 38 Harman-Kardon,Inc. 29 6 American Concertone, Inc. 24 39 Heath Company 25 8 Angel Division, Capitol Record Club 5 Hi -Fidelity Supply 95 9 Angel Records 67 10 Argo Records 74 40 KLH Research and Development Corporation 14 11 Audio Devices, Inc. 57 Kersting Mfg. Co. 95 12 Audio Dynamics Corporation 73 Key Electronics Co. 95 13 Audio Exchange 86 14 Audio Fidelity,Inc. 65 41 Lafayette Radio Electronics 8 15 82 42 Lansing Sound, Inc., James B. 90 ... Audio Originals Audion 94 43 Lektrostat Corp. 65 Audio Unlimited 94 London Records 8, 84

46 Marantz 15 16 Bell Stereo 72 66 Mercury Record Corporation 62 17 Benjamin Electronic Sound Corp. 63 47 Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. 85 68 Benjamin Electronic Sound Corp. 92 48 Monarch Electronics International, Inc. 66 18 Bozak 23 67 Mosley Electronics, Inc. 84 19 BritishIndustries -Garrard 2 Brown Sales Corp.,L. M. 94 49 Pilot Radio Corporation 19 20 Burgess Battery Company 77 50 RCA Parts and Accessories 76 51 RCA Red Seal Magnetic Tape 80 21 Cambridge Records,Inc. 78 52 Rabsons-57th Street,Inc. 71 Carston Studios 94 53 Reeves Soundcraft Corp. 3rd COVER 22 Citadel Record Club 71 54 Rek-O-Kut Company, Inc. 9 23 Columbia Records 58 55 Roberts Electronics,Inc. 71 24 Command Records 87 56 Rockford Special Furniture Co. 73 Commission Electronics, Inc. 95 Saxitone Tape Sales 95 25 Deutsche Grammophon 10 57 Scott, Inc., H. H. 2nd COVER, 1 DixieHi-Fi 94 58 Sherwood Electronic Laboratories, Inc. 26 26 Douwe Egberts Royal Factories 12 59 Shure Brothers, Inc. 75 Dressner 94 Sound Reproduction, Inc. 94 27 Dynaco, Inc. 61 Stereo Component Supply Co. 94 Stereo-Parti 94 28 Eastman Kodak Company 89 Stereo Warehouse 94 29 EICO Electronic Instr. Co., Inc. 30 60 Superscope,Inc. 83 30 Electro-Voice,Inc. 16 31 Elpa Marketing Industries, Thorens Division 88 61 United Stereo Tapes 86 32 Epic Records 68 Universal Tape Club 94 62 University Loudspeakers 7 70 33 Finney Company, The 63 Vanguard Records 73 34 Fisher Radio Corporation 11, 13 35 Fuji Photo Optical Products, Inc. 70 64 Winegard Antenna Systems 92

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Accessories 65, 84 Speakers and Speaker Systems ..7,9,11, 14, 16, 23, 26, 73, 86, 90 Amplification Systems 13, 15, 61, 78, 86, 90 Tapes, Prerecorded 86 Antennas, FM 70, 72, 92 Tape, Recording 57, 77, 80, 85, 89, 3rd Cover Cabinets 73, 82 Tape Recorders and Decks 824, 25, 30, 71, 72, 83, 86, 93 Cameras 70 Cartridges, Phonograph 63, 64, 75 Tobacco 12 Headphones 66 Tuners and Tuner -Amplifiers 1,6,19,29, 30,66, 72, 86, 2nd Cover, 4th Cover Records 5, 8, 10, 58, 62, 65, 67, 68, 71, 73, 74, 78, 84, 87 Turntables and Changers 2, 20, 76, 86, 88, 92

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COOLNESS OF TRANSISTORS- WHAT MAJOR COMPONENTS ARE NEW CIRCUITRY, PRECISION OF FRAME GRID TUBES INCLUDED IN THE NEW "ASTRO"? NEW FEATURES, For cool operation, Altec makes judicious Five integrated stereo components are use of transistors. For highest sensitivity packaged in a compact 6" x 15" x 131/2" and quietest performance imaginable, new cabinet: FM, FM multiplex, AM, dual - NEW IDEA IN STEREO channel preamplifiers, dual -channel power ultra -precise frame grid tubes are used. amplifiers. The wide band FM tuner fea- "Modern" is not the word. Perhaps This proper combination of transistors and tures 1.2 microvolt sensitivity (equivalent "ahead -of -its -time" is a bit more descrip- tubes in the "Astro" has produced results to 0.75 microvolts with matched 72 ohm that are just this side of miraculous. antenna) to assure highest gain, lowest tive of the new Altec 708A "Astro." How noise. A built-in FM stereo multiplex re- else would you describe an all -in -one ceiver provides 30 db stereo separation be- stereo center full of features and facilities The "Astro" is sensitive, stable and com- tween channels over the entire audio never before available in a single package? pletely consistent in its performance (top- range. To take all guesswork out of tuning, a monitor light goes on automatically notch!) and utterly free of drift. Indeed, it when stereo signal is received. The AM For example, consider its circuitry. is the first truly practical stereo center be- tuner provides high sensitivity and excel- Transistors are combined with new frame cause transistors in the power stage make lent image and IF rejection. grid tubes to gain the best qualities of each. it run cool for hours on end. Unlike ordin- The preamplifier section features a com- As another example, consider its unique ary "hot boxes," the "Astro" secures peak plete complement of controls and includes stereo headphone facilities. The output re- operating efficiency and maximum life facilities for everything from record and ceptacle is in the rear; you may leave the tape player to the stereo headphones. from resistors, capacitors, and other sub- Powerful dual -channel amplifiers deliver headphones plugged in permanently, out components in its circuitry. And, because 27.5 watts each down to 20 cycles (IHFM of sight when not in use. The headphone it runs cool, the "Astro" is the first practi- standard) with ± 1 db, 20-20,000 cps fre- switch, however, is located conveniently cal unit for built-in installations. quency response. on the front panel. YOU MUST SEE & HEAR THE "ASTRO" Feel it, too, for that all-important cool- Or, consider the unique tape recording ness. At your Altec Distributor's now. Or, monitor that functions much like monitors 55watts from for information, write Dept. SR -5 in professional recording studios. Namely, an area the size of a postcard! it permits you to monitor any source ©1962 ALTEC LANSING CORP. material two ways during recording: the That's the magic A Subsidiary instant signal enters the record head or of transistors: of Ling-Temoo- directly from tape, the moment it is re- the four shown ALTEC.®Vought. Inc. corded. And these features are only a at left make up sampling. Truly, the "Astro" is "ahead -of - the power stage its -time" even down to the smallest details of the "Astro." ALTEC LANSING such as the exclusive friction -lock controls In all, 12 transistors and 17 tubes are used CORPORATION that obsolete awkward dual knobs found in this entirely new stereo center that is 1515 S. Manchester Ave., Anaheim, California on conventional stereo equipment. rated several years ahead of its time. 161 Sixth Avenue, New York 13, New York CIRCLE NO. 5 ON READER SERVICE CARD