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Tide's In. Next to being actually tied to the railroad tracks, there is nothing like a stereophonic recording to give a person that run-down feeling. But stereo's well-known gift for superrealism has made astonishing inroads with the music-loving public as well as thrill seekers in the past three years...
Like any new toy, stereo at first appealed largely to only a narrow group. The early stereo owner was the status-conscious fellow in the neighborhood-he already had a Mercedes or didn't quite have the cash for one. In the wellappointed bachelor apartment, the stereo rig replaced the traditional etchings as a lure for the nubile. His costly equipment consisted of two speakers, two amplifiers, a special cartridge for his record player, as well as an assortment of optional gear. His stereo library was comprised mainly of trick noises and demonstration records -drum recitals, incoming tides...
...Comique in Paris in 1926 (the love duet of the cats, with its mewing violins, enraged the audience). Nevertheless, L'Enfant contains some of Ravel's most appealing music, as a fine new Deutsche Gramophon recording conducted by Lorin Maazel-the first of the opera in stereo-again demonstrates...
Janequin: Choral Works (the Bach Choral Society of Montreal, conducted by George Little; Vox). The strange, polyphonic songs of the 16th century French composer who pushed musical description to a new high-or low. Stereo fans will be fascinated by two pieces in particular: Le Chant des Oiseaux, in which the chorus twitters and coos, and La Guerre, in which the chorus, without lifting its collective voice beyond a murmur, suggests the confused clamor of the battlefield...
...others do the costly research and development of new products. It counted on making the same products later-and better. But under Wright's prodding, Zenith has more than doubled its research outlay. One result is a new system for broadcasting stereophonic FM. Anticipating a mass switch by stereo buffs from records to radios, Zenith is preparing to produce a new line of stereo-FM radio receivers...