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Honky-Tonk in Hi-Fi (Westminster). For the nostalgic or the audiophiles who collect memories or sounds as far out as the nickelodeon. The wheezing specimens at the Musical Museum at Deansboro, N.Y. rattle and plunk out antiques such as Waiting for the Robert E. Lee and The Sheik of Araby...
...Love as he is on a stomping, heavily chorded Bess, You Is My Woman Now. Early in the morning, when he is running through witty variations of old standbys. he has the small room howling requests. Pianist Coleman has his own theory about the popularity of music rooms: hi-fi has prepared people for good jazz and piano playing. "It's happening all over the city and all over the country, even in places where they've barely learned the progressive beat." he says. "They can scarcely put the pianos in fast enough...
Billed as the biggest international bazaar in Western Hemisphere history, the U.S. World Trade Fair brought 3,000 displays and 43 national pavilions into the four floors of Manhattan's Coliseum. For a fort night buyers from the Americas looked over motor scooters from Italy and hi-fi equipment from Japan, inspected silks from Hong Kong and a pair of Queen Victoria's pantaloons exhibited by Britain's Lux-Lux, Ltd. (underwear), sampled coffee from Brazil and champagne from Israel. Last week, is the show closed, its private U.S. organizers tallied some of the handsome results...
American culture in the fi,fties has at last achieved unity. The break between mass culture and high culture that occurred around the turn of the century, culminated in the cold war of the twenties between the intellectuals and the rest of society. Now that war has been healed by the international crisis, which has placed us all in the same sinking boat, by the spread of liberal education, and by the comforting new ministrations of religion and political philosophy. Today, out of many, we are one. This reunion may have enriched the common stock, but it has also certainly...
...atmosphere. This week Piano Virtuoso Artur Rubinstein (see PEOPLE) enthusiastically echoes Barzun's point that "in spite of our perennial croaking about America's neglect of the arts, the country spends more money for music than the entire rest of the world." Since the hi-fi revolution, a growing slice of that money has been spent on records, which have created a magnificent "concert hall without walls" not only for the classics but for the moderns. TIME'S Music editor listens to the vinyl outpourings, from two dozen record companies, selects the best and most interesting items...