Hi 111 Stereo Review JULY 1967 75 CENTS Arturo Toscanini: a New Look at the Recorded Legacy the Basic Repertoire: Forty-Seven Best Performances
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For complimentary Comparator Guide, write Garrard, Dept. AG -5, Westbury, N.Y. 11590. 7-7 Hifi Stereo Review JUIN 1967 VOLUNIE 19 NUNIIIER I THE MUSIC THE FEAR OF GOD-AND TOSCANINI A critic re-examines a conductorial legend ERIC SALZMAN 31. JOHN PHILIP SOUSA The March King was "an original [and] important composer"... RICHARD FRANKO GOLDMAN 35 THE BASIC REPERTOIRE Updatings and Second Thoughts, Part Two MARTIN BOOKSPAN 48 BEST OF THE MONTH Reviews of outstanding new record releases 61 EVEREST/CETRA: A HARVEST OF REISSUES FOR OPERA LOVERS - The fabled Cetra-Soria opeia recordings are again available GEORGE JELLINEK 80 THE EQUIPMENT NEW PRODUCTS A roundup of the latest high-fidelity equipment 16 HI-FI Q Sc A Answers to your technical questions LARRY KLEIN 24 AUDIO BASICS Audio Specifications XI: Amplifier Power HANS H. FANTEL 28 LABORATORY TESTS OF ELEVEN STEREO CARTRIDGES Full reports on a number of top -rated models.- . JULIAN D. HIRSCH AND GLADDENB. HOUCK 52 -THE DOLBY" AUDIO NOISE REDUCTION SYSTEM Two new discs introduce a breakthrough in recording technique JOHN MILDER 76 TAPE HORIZONS Tapes for Troops DRUNIMOND MCINNIS 103 THE REVIEWS CLASSICAL 67 ENTERTAINMENT 87 TAPE 99 THE REGULARS EDITORIALLY SPEAKING 4 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 6 ADVERTISERS' INDEX; PRODUCT INDEX 106 cOVER: DESIGN BY BORYS PATCHOWSKY; PHOTO BY BRUCE PENDLETON 1967 by Ziff.Davis Publishing Compare):. All rigida reserved. HIFI/Stereo Review, July1967, Volume 19, Number 1.Published monthlyCopyright at 307 North Michigan Avenue. Chicago. Illinois 60601. by Ziff.11itvia Publishing Company-also the publishers of Airline Manage:nen: and Marketing. Boating. Wildness & Commercial Aviation, Car and Driver,Cycle.Electronics World.Flying,Modern Bride.Popular Aviation. Popular Electronics, Popular Photography. Skiing, Skiing Area News. and Skiing Trade News. (Travel Weekly la nubliahed by Robinson Publica. lions,Inc.. a subsIdiary of Ziff-Davi. Publishing Company.) 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HEFFERNAN EDITOR By William Anderson WILLIAM ANDERSON MANAGING EDITOR WILLIAM LIVINGSTONE ALTHOUGH Mother Nature somewhere along the line MUSIC EDITOR saw fit to make JAMES GOODFRIEND man the most adaptable of her creatures, it begins to appear that she also set some limits to that adaptability. The TECHNICAL EDITOR press, the public, and even LARRY KLEIN our legislatures are starting to pay belated attention to what might be rather generally referred to as eye, ASSOCIATE EDITOR ear, nose, and throat disturbances- ROBERT S. CLARK visual outrages, unbearable noise, and polluted air-thatare direct results of our indefatigable and ingenious exploitation of the world around ART DIRECTOR us. BORYS PATCHOWSKY As a resident of a city mightily afflicted with air and noise problems, I CONTRIBUTING EDITORS must admit that I am fast reaching the limits of my adaptability, and there- MARTIN BOOKSPAN fore side with the militant angels. HANS H. FANTEL WILLIAM FLANAGAN On the visual front, however, I still haveone resource-I can selectively DAVID HALL ignore what I don't wish to see. Although it givesme great pleasure to NAT HENTOFF JULIAN D. HIRSCH know that there is one county in upstate New York which, by local option, GEORGE JELLINEK forbids billboard advertising, the tireless onslaught of the pitchman- IGOR KIPNIS PAUL KRESH whether he writes large in the sky or smallon the inside of matchbook DRUMMOND McINNIS covers-leaves me largely unaffected. In this, REX REED I suspect, I am like most PETER REILLY Americans: we have been the target, for most ofour lives, of the mightiest ERIC SALZMAN propaganda barrage ever mounted anywhere;we have been shouted at and EUROPEAN EDITOR whispered to,cajoled, amused, kidded, and pampered-and we have FREDERIC GRUNFELD somehow learned to ignore itall. Advertising is, of course, one of the LONDON EDITOR larger gears in our economic machine, andwe would have to sacrifice HENRY PLEASANTS many other delightful things (this magazine included) if we proposed ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER to do without it.