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...will detect that the Somerized orchestra has a habit of wandering about the stage: the strings may shift a bit toward center, a trumpeter may wander farther into right field. But most customers are not likely to question the illusion: the gimmicked Toscanini recordings have a luster that their mono counterparts lack...
...natural food fats fall into one of three categories-saturated, mono-unsaturated and polyunsaturated. The degree of saturation depends on the number of hydrogen atoms on the fat molecule. Saturated fats can accommodate no more hydrogens. Mono-unsaturated fats have room for two more hydrogens on each molecule, and the polyunsaturated fat molecule has room for at least four hydrogens...
...three fats have similar caloric values (about 265 calories per oz.), but each exerts a radically different influence on blood cholesterol. Saturated fats in meat and dairy products promote production of cholesterol in quantities too large for the body to excrete. Mono-unsaturated fats (predominant in olive oil, most margarines) have no apparent effect at all on blood cholesterol levels. Polyunsaturated fats, such as those in corn, cottonseed or fish oils, on the other hand, actually lower cholesterol by increasing the excretion of bile acids...
Bartok: Music for String Instruments, Percussions and Celesta, and Frank Martin: Petite Symphonie Concertante (Albert Fuller, harpsichord; Gloria Agostini. harp; Mitchell Andrews, piano; Leopold Stokowski conducting; Capitol, mono and stereo). Both Composers Bartok and Martin anticipated the dreams of the stereo engineers by calling for strings divided in equal groups on either side of the conductor. The resulting spread of sound is interesting, but less so than Stokowski's fine performance. Even with a pickup orchestra, his Bartok glows with tonal colors as weird and arresting as an electrical storm, and his vigorous reading of Martin has a fine...
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (Lisa Delia Casa; the Chicago Symphony, conducted by Fritz Reiner; RCA Victor, mono and stereo). Even in the flood of Mahler-year recordings, Conductor Reiner's brilliant, surgically clean reading of the Fourth is a standout. Under his baton, the massive Mahler sonorities remain remarkably clear and unclotted, and what often smacks of bombast in other performances emerges as music of dignity and grandeur. Soprano Delia Casa sings the folklike melody of the fourth movement with warmth and charm...