• June .. Improve Your Own Stereo til ClassicS - Compose or Improvise '1 • New Stereo components THIS IS THE YEAR OF THE NEW HAROMAN-KARDON STEREO FESTIVAL the new STEREO FESTIVAL, model TA230 Once again Harman-Kardon has made the creative leap which distinguishes engineering leadership. The new Stereo Festival represents the successful crystallization of all stereo know-how in a single superb instrument. Picture a complete stereophonic electronic center: dual preamplifiers with input facility and control for every stereo function including the awaited FM multiplex service. Separate sensitive AM and FM tuners for simulcast reception. A great new thirty watt power amplifier (60 watts peak). This is the new Stereo Festival. The many fine new Stereo Festival features include: new H-K Friction-Clutch tone controls to adjust bass and treble separately for each channel. Once used to correct system imbalance, they may be operated as conventionally ganged controls. Silicon power supply provides excellent regulation for improved transient response and stable tuner performance. D.C. heated preamplifier filaments insure freedom from hum. Speaker phasing switch corrects for improperly recorded program material. Four new 7408 output tubes deliver distortion-free power from two highly conservative power amplifier circuits. Additional Features: Separate electronic tuning bars for AM and FM; new swivel high Q ferrite loopstick for increased AM sensitivity; Automatic Frequency Control, Contour Selector, Rumble Filter, Scratch Filter, Mode Switch, Record-Tape Equalization Switch, two high gain magnetic inputs for each channel and dramatic new copper escutcheon. Ideal for limited space (only 151%6" wide, 678" high, 12%" deep-excluding enclosure) the TA230 is simplicity itself to operate. Five minutes with its exceptionally complete instruction booklet, and you will use the Festival to its full per­ formance potential. The Stereo Festival, Model TA230, price is $259.95. Copper and. black metal enclosure (Model AC30) price is $12.95. Handsome hardwood - walnut or fruitwood - enclosure, (Models WW30 and FW30) price is $29.95. For free attractive brochure on the complete H-K line, write to Harman-Kardon, Inc., Dept.MR6, Westbury, New York. h ° (Prices slightly higher in the West) I I 1 !r I Serving the owners of Garrard­ world's finest record playing equipment _and other discriminating listeners Stereo and monaural .. most people ready to buy high fidelity com­ Interested In high fidelity. ponents seek advice from friends who own them. Generally you will find that these knowledgeable owners have a Garrard changer. And if you ask experienced dealers, they will invariably tell you that for any high fidelity system, stereo or monaural, the world's finest record changer is the ... 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Pf'e-wired. lor 8tereo-and imtaUed. in minutes. .... ECONOMICAL De8ptte its many advantagelf, a Garrard. OOOnger coata lea8 than a turntable with sepa"ate arm. Backed. by Garrard'a 36-year record. 0/ per/ect, tr01tble-free performance. Garrard I•• quallty-.ndo ....d component of the -British IndustrIes Corporation (aIC) Group. CifY _________ Stote __ Mail to: Dept. GF-129 Garrard Sales Corporation n\VIslq'n of British Industries Corp • .port Washington, N. Y. Conadfcm Inquiries to ~Vl PalnlOll, lId., 6 A1dna Aft , 1<1ron'0. t~ 0.6., .han U.S.A. Gnd Conode '0 :Qo<rord !;nglnearlng & MIg. Co., LId., SWfndOn, Wllh., J;IIgland 1 FEATURE ARTICLES HiFiREVIEW lI Impulse Improvisation vs. Composition 33 Henry Pleasants June, 1959 J A re-birth of the art of improvisa- of Vol. :2 No.6 . ~ I~~~ha~: ~~sti~~s c~~~:~e h~;t~~~~g !The Mutated Audiophile 36 Martin Forrest Publish~r Although three ears might be beller, Oliver Read - your stereo gains improved depth from :1 a third speaker Editor Oliver P. Ferrell I,·. Tin Horns and Golden Voices 39 George lellinek ! Small labels playa big role in pre- serving pre-hi-fi voices from opera's Music Editor J Golden Age on modern LPs David Hall I~ Case for the Integrated Arm 42 Oliver p, Ferrell Art Editor . ~ Scott and Shure offer new stereo components Saul D. Weiner I with the cartridge mated to the tone arm Associate Editors .. The "Electronic" Opera Glass 44 Hans H. Fantel Hans H. Fantel 1 Rodney H. Williams The 1/ Audio Baton" acts like a zoom lens for your acoustic perspective and puts 1 home recordings in professional focus Contributing Editors j . Marlin 800kspan Warren DeMotte l It Started with a "Lady" 47 Charles M, Weisenberg Ralph J. Gleason j Broadway shows have sparked a new Stanley Green trend in jazz LPs. Now it's spread- Nat Hentoff I George Jellinek I ing fast to include TV and films David Randolph John Thornton Louisville Harvest 50 David Hall The Kentucky Derby City has produced Advertising Director a fabulous modern music gallery on John A. Ronan. Jr. discs-a record-by-record survey Advertising Manager Herb Olsow REVIEWS Stereo HiFi Concert 59 Martin Bookspa n, David Hall, ZIFF-DAVIS PUBLI SH ING COo, O ne Park George Je llinek, David Randolph, Ave., New York Ib, N_ Y. William B. Ziff, John Thornton C ha irman of the Board (1946- 1953); William Ziff, President ; W . Bradford Briggs, Execu­ tive Vice President; Michael Michaelson, Martin Bookspan, David Ha ll, Vice President and Circulation Director; Mono HiFi Concert 73 Hershel B. Sarbin , Secreta ry; Howard George Jellinek, David Randolph, Stoughton, J r., Treasurer; Albert Gruen, John Thornton Art Director. BRANCH OFFIC ES: Midwestern Office, 434 Stereo Entertainment 79 Ralph J. Gleason, Stanley Green, S. Wabash Ave., Chicago 5, III., Tom i Nat Hentoff Berry, Midwest Advertising Manager; Western Office, Room 412 , 215 West 7th I St., Los Angeles 17, Calif., James R. Pierce, Western Advertising Manager ; Foreign Ad­ Ralph Gleason, Stanley Green, ve rtising Representatives: D. A. Goodall I Mono Entertainment 85 J. Ltd., London; Albert Milhado & Co., Ltd ., Nat Hentoff Antwerp a nd Dusseldorf. SU BSCRIPTI ON SERV ICE Forms 3579 and all subscription corre­ spondence should be addressed to Cir­ COLUMNS AND MISCELLANEOUS culation Department, 43 4 South Wabash I Avenue, Cnicago 5, Il linois. Please allow Sound and the Query 22 at least four weeks fo r change of address. 1HiFi Soundings 6 Include you r old address as well as new - enclosing if possible a n address label I from a recent issue. Musical Oddentities 30 1Just Looking 8 CO NT RI BUTORS ! Contributors are advised to retain a copy of their manuscript a nd illustrations. Con­ Advertisers Index 91 tributions shou ld be mailed to the Ne w York Editorial office and must be accom­ 1The Basic Repertoire 18 panied by return postage. Contributions Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto The Flip Side 92 are handled with reasonable care, but this ! magazine assumes no responsibility for their safe ty. Any acceptable manuscript is sub­ ject to whatever adaptations and revisions are necessary to meet requirements of this Cover illustration by Chuck McVicker publication. Payment covers all author's rights, titles and interest in and to the material accepted and will be made at our I current rates upon acceptance. All photos a nd drawings will be considered as part of HiFi REVIEW is published monthly by Ziff-Davis Publishing C~mpany , William B. Ziff, material p urchased. Cha irman of the Board (1946-1953). at 434 South Wabash Ave., ChICago 5, III. Second ciass postage paid at Chicago, "linois. Authorized by the Post Office Department, Otta,:"a, Ont., Canada as second cl ass matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES : One yea r U.S. a nd posseSSions, and Canada $4.00; Pa n-America n Union countries $4.50, all othe r foreign countries $5.00. Average Net Copyright 1959 by ZIFF·DAVIS PUBLISHING Company Paid C irculation All rights reserved 123 ,287 5 the HiFi Soundings 9 By DAVID HALL seconds A RECORD CRITICS' CIRCLE-NOW'S THE TIME Spring fever and award fever seem to go hand in hand, whether on the academic or the industry level. As we write this, filmdom's "Os cars" have had their big day-or night; and now the record industry has joined the parade by an­ nouncing through its National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) the first in its annual series of "best of the year" awards. Like the Motion Picture Academy Awards, these are "by the industry for the industry," and it remains to be seen whether they will carry with them the prestige, pub­ licity value, and increased sale potential that has come to be associated with the coveted "Oscar." Functioning in the way it does, as a branch of the entertainment field, the r recording industry has had little choice under the conditions of our free enter­ prise system but to regard the artistic and historic values of its product as that add being secondary to the imperatives of economic survival on a highly competi­ tive scene.