Word: fi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harman, himself a composer of modern music, has found an electronic solution. By asking TIME'S correspondents to arrange for high-fidelity tape recordings of the concerts, he can sit in his acoustically draped office and hear true reproductions of the music on TIME'S new hi-fi and binaural Magnecorder. Harman is delighted with the results. Recently, unable to attend the premiere of Roger Sessions' new cantata, played by the Louisville Orchestra, he was still able to hear and review the work of his old Princeton teacher (TIME...
...proud toy-poodle owner, who also happens to be a hi-fi fan, tried to explain the phenomenon at the Garden last week: "This is one more sign of what you might call sophistication for the masses. The poodle is purely and simply a luxury dog: no suggestion of proletarian practicality; no good for hunting, at least not any more; no good for herding sheep; no good for tracking convicts. The American people are getting more of the good things in life all the time-things that used to belong to the aristocracy: sailboats, golf, good music. Why not poodles...
...pipe organ seemed to have played itself to a standstill when, about two years ago, it was suddenly discovered by high-fidelity fans and came back with a roar. With high fidelity's new recording techniques, hazy diapasons became vivid, and when the hi-fi crowd learned that the organ could play both lower and higher than any other instrument, it became their all-out favorite. The boom began with sub-middlebrow theater-organ concoctions, e.g., a series of LPs by Organist Reginald Foort, on the Cook label, continued with a series by George Wright, put out by newly...
Organist Weinrich's performance is as pure and concise as Bach is supposed to sound; the distinctness of his contrapuntal lines sets off the daring harmonic progressions that so dismayed Bach's congregation, as well as the surging emotion. The recorded sound is sweet and-being hi-fi-a little bit clearer than it would ever be in a church. Two years hence, if all goes well, Westminster's Complete Organ Works of Bach, an estimated 22 LPs, will give the organ-happy public a complete earful...
Once downstairs, the hi-fi set goes on, and Adams reads the morning papers while Rachel prepares breakfast (fruit, two eggs and-he thinks-Sanka). He is at the White House desk, emblazoned with the Seal of the President of the U.S., by 7:30, plunging deep into the stack of papers that never seems to diminish. The rest of the day is accurately crowded: conferences, sometimes as many as three at a time, with Adams circulating among them; a parade of visitors; dozens of telephone calls; and, always, papers and more papers. Generally, Adams takes time out only...