Word: musication
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surface it had all looked like part of a familiar cycle-labor v. management saber rattling over money, hours, work conditions -all capable of rational settlement. But the talks between the Met and eleven unions were hampered by past rancors and lack of trust. Bombay-born Zubin Mehta, music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and a regular conductor at the Met, last week scornfully characterized the negotiations as an "Oriental-bazaar style of bargaining." Bing speaks openly of the "sheer demagoguery" of his adversaries, and is furious that they don't take pity...
...again! The hi-fi industry, which periodically brings out new devices to make music listeners dissatisfied, is about to unwrap another surprise. After spending twelve years convincing the record-buying public that two ears are better than one, high-fidelity manufacturers have now embarked on a drive to prove that four ears are twice as good-at least. Their excuse: quadrisonic sound, pioneered by Acoustic Research, a leading maker of hi-fi equipment. Audio enthusiasts have been jamming themselves into demonstration rooms in New York's Grand Central Station to hear the astonishingly lifelike effect created by four amplifiers...
Four-channel stereo at first suggests mainly gimmicky possibilities-tap dancers banging their way across the living room and out into the kitchen; Valkyries swooping about the house like big-bosomed mosquitoes. Yet it has serious potential in recording. Certain kinds of music can be adequately heard no other way: the Berlioz Requiem, for instance, with its four brass bands in opposite corners, or the antiphonal music of Gabrieli...
Rescue Ahead. Maybe. On the other hand, disks have been around since 1887, and music lovers are fondly accustomed to the pleasurable shape and fed of platter recordings. Besides, record companies have a heavy investment in disk recordings. But to go on gratifying the old record-buying public, manufacturers will probably have to come up with something that does not yet exist -a practical, marketable disk offering four-channel sound of quadrisonic tape. The technical problem-essentially how to squeeze four channels into one groove and then play them off again with high fidelity-has long seemed insoluble. Last week...
...demonstration arranged for TIME'S music editors and a panel of scientific experts, Scheiber and his partner Tom Mowry played music ranging from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake to rock and electronic music specially composed for the four-channel medium. The sound quality proved remarkably high, though not as high as equivalent tapes...