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H-7 HIGH FIDELITY MAGAZINE www.americanradiohistory.com High Jidelity T H E M A G A Z I N E F O R M U S I C L I S T E N E R S The Cover. Sergci Rachmaninoff, por- Volume 5 Number 3 May 1955 trayed on this month's by Richard M. Powers, was an admirer and a protégé of Tchaikovsky and, in a way, carried for- ward longest the musical tradition that had reached its peak with Tchaikovsky. It AUTHORitatively Speaking 4 is fitting, thus, that - though we didn't Noted With Interest plan it that way - the last installment of 9 our three-part Tchaikovsky discography, Letters 22 by J. F. Indcox, should run along with our Rachmaninoff discography, by Ray Ericson. As The Editors See It 35 This Issue. Problems . is there really The Silent Partner, by Chuck Gerhardt 36 too much music around us? Dana Andrews Ideally, what enters a recording microphone should be exactly what is somewhat inclined to think so, as he the home -listener hears. But sometimes the listener wouldn't like it. indicates in his "Living With Music" essay (page 41 ). And he has reasons. Jacques See How They Dance, by Rosalyn Krokover 38 Barzun, who will be heard from next in the Everyone's seeing ballet, series, has even keener feelings on the talking ballet, reading ballet, listening to ballet music. Ir'hat is behind it all? matter .... But if there can he too much music in the are air, the Italians to be Living With Music, by Dana Andrews ql envied or pitied, served as they are with the world's biggest single musical budget? Third in a series of essays on the pleasures and hazards of music iu the house. Martin Mayer thinks they're lucky, and explains his stand on page 46 When .... When Beethoven Walked Vienna's Streets, musical congestion rakes the form of a contest in the living room between Haydn by Fred Grunfeld and Dr. Otto Bettmann 43 and the Hit Parade, some classics -loving A picture teatime. fathers bribe their pops -addicted offspring with movie- money, others turn tyrant and Comin' Through the RAI, by Martin Mayer 46 switch the TV set off, Joseph Marshall Where in the world are the airwaves most richly freighted with solves the problem in a different and very music.' ingenious way. He tells how on page 91. Next Issue. Harold C. Schonberg writes Music Makers, by Roland Gelatt 49 to say that the Chopin discography he is finishing will be "long," but we hope to fir Record Section 51 -89 it complete in the June issue. Records in Review; Building Your Record library: Dialing Your Disks; Rachmaninoff: A Discography by Raymond Ericson; The Tchaikovsky Recordings on Microgroove, by J. F. Indco.x, Part III. CHARLES FOWLER, Publisher Nobody Hears It But You, by Joseph Marshall 91 JOHN M. CONLY, Editor Through earphones, you can commune with the masters while the rest of the family hobnob with Sergeant Friday and Mr. Peepers. ROY H. HOOPES. JR., Managing Editor Associate Editors Tested In The Home 95 ROY F. ALLISON FRANK R. WRIGHT Craftsmen Caso Solitaire Amplifier - Flabau Tape Threader -Rek- ROY LINDSTROM, Art Director 0 -Kut Rondine Turntables-Gramercy Needle Brush - Marant: Audio Cousolette Plautenua Lansing 820 -C Speaker Editorial Assistants -The -Altec System - University Adjustable Dividing Networks. Miriam D. Manning, Cora R. Hoopes ROLAND GELATI, New York Editor Music Listener's Bookshelf Contributing Editors C. G. BURKE Audio Forum JAMES G. DEANE JAMES HINTON, JR. Traders' Marketplace MANSFIELD E. PICKETT, Director of Professional Directory Advertising Sales Advertising Index WARREN B. 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