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CLASSICALMUSIC

*14th Annual HF/International Record Crities Awards by James R. Oestreieh Janaćck s From the Mouse of the Dead receives most votes; Birtwistlc's

53 Picture Packs

90 Shakespeare's Fauli?

BACKBEAT/Popular Musie

The BACKBEAT Intemew: John Entwistle by Steven X. Rea

% Half-Speed Harry

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VOLUME 31 NUMBER 12 DECEM BER 1981

AUDIO

High Fidelity News by the Audio Editors

Cireat Scotts!; Three-Piece DA; A-T Makes It Tiny; Atlantis in the Auto

Basically Speaking by Michael Riggs

The Recording/Playback Chain: what each link does

CrossTalk by Michael Riggs

The Impossible; Dog Days: Digital Potential; Noise Enhanced *New Equipment Reports

Yamaha B-6nower amplificr    22    NAD 1020preamplifier

OnkyoTX-6000recciver    24    CarverC-9 Sonic

Technics SL-15 turntable    28    Hologram Generator

Sony STR-VX6 receiver

*Six Experts Choose Stereo Systems

Six prosfrom varying backgrounds reveal in theirown wordsstrategies they would use to assembleSystems with budgetsof $600, $1,000. and $1,500

VIDEO TODAY AND TOMORROW

VideoFronts by William Tynan

Video Source Lock; Deluxe Color Camera; TV Color Processor; CX Joins CED 47 TubeFood Edit ed by Su san Elliot t

New (and sometimesoriginal) videocassette and vidcodisc programming    48

*Tuning in to Y ideoCameras by William Tynan

Easeofoperationshould be a primeconsideration in selecting one    51

Video Camera of the 1990s?    53

Video Q. & A. by Edw ard J. Foster

Uncxplained Battery Drain; Permanent Yidicon Damage?    54

Punch and Jady wins the prestigious Koussevitzky Award    56

The Way We Might Have Been... by Robert Long

Regretand rejoicingover Bell Labs’“Early Hi-Fi    series    60

Tdemann’sTime HasCome Again Reviewedby Kenneth Cooper

At least one new recording gives hope for this master’s next three centuries    62

Record Reviews: EurodisCs digital Rheingold: A “compiele" Schubert Ninth; Sutherland, Home. and Pavarotti “live"    68

Crities' Choice    72

At Long Last, Lear Reviewedby Patrick J. Smith

Is this opera a genuine addition to the limited twentieth-century repertory?    90

The Tape Deck by R. D. Darrell

Roundup II; The survey ofyear-end cassctte releasescontinues    93

Behind the Sc en es by James R. Oestreieh

Twospecial reviews: Holy Yumpin* Yiminy; Culshaw at Large    114

The Who bassist teams upwith F.agles'guitarist Joe Walsh fora new LP    94

*Audiophiliacs' Delight by Crispin Cioe Half-sneed remastered and digital recordings by Blondie, Erie Clapton.

Keith Jarrett, FJvis. Foreigner. morę    96

James Blood Ulmer’s Artistic Body Musie Reviewedby Crispin Cioe

An impressive solo debut by this funk/jazz guitar wiz.    98

Pop Records: Arelha Franklin; Art Garfunkel; Karla DeVito; Tom Verlaine ...    98

Jazz Records: Shankar; Joe Pass; Paul Desmond/The Modern JazzQuartet...    104

DEPARTMENTS    Christmas Shopping Guide    105

I^etters    4    General Index to Articles—1981    111

Reader-ServiceCards    81    Advertising lndex    114