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An experiment designed to detect the bulk flow of cool plasma within the magnetosphere has been flown on the ATS-1 (Applications Technology Satellite) synchronous satellite. This experiment has yielded evidence for gusts of streaming positive ions in the magnetospheric equatorial plane. This directed ion flow is interpreted as the result of large-scale electric fields of the order of several millivolts per meter.

In a concluding chapter, \"Life and Death,\" Macdonald traces the fortunes of Bizet's music since his death, alongside a publication history of his scores and sheet music, imposing a certain posthumous order on the stop-and-go narrative of his creative life.

Toscanini in Britain By Christopher Dyment Boy dell Press; 398 pp. $50 The ranks of Arturo Toscanini's devotees have been shrinking in recent years. Because his recording career preceded the age of stereo, classical radio shies away from broadcasting his recordings.

Great Wagner Conductors: A Listener's Companion By Jonathan Brown Parrot Press; 797pp. $55 Australian Jonathan Brown - sometime diplomat, lawyer, philosopher and academic - serves notice in his introduction that \"this book has been written by someone who is neither a conductor, a musician, a musicologist, or a critic.\" What they shared was an instinct for the Master's unique musical style, to which as individuals they brought that other essential ingredient - a personal point of view.

When Wagner involved himself in philosophy - vis-à-vis the views of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche - he often came off second best; his artistic sources were intuitive, whereas rhe indulgence of self-explanation, via his many prose writings, led him into sand traps of logic. Yes, one feels die surge of desire that builds in Act I of Die Walküre, or the pain of unfulfilled longing throughout Tristan und Isolde, but \"What is it in the notes and sounds - in their melodies, harmony, orchestration, rhythm and texture - - that arouse thoughts of sexual desire?\" Rather than confuse many readers by inrerspersing the text with staves of music, rhe author relegates his musical examples to seventeen pages of appendix, visual footnotes in support of the points made in writing.

The Complete Production at the Metropolitan Opera Photos and text by Nancy Ellison; prefoce by Eva Wagner-Pasquier; contributions by Otto Schenk and James Levine; foreword by Peter GeIb Rizzoli; 240 pp. $85 This Ring-si7£d coffee-table book follows the final Met presentation of the Otto Schenk-Güiither SchneiderSiemssen-Rolf Langenfass production of Wagner's cycle, from the first sighting of the Rhinemaidens to their final retrieval of their treasure, all seen from the personal viewpoint of photographer Nancy Ellison.

Perseverino for decades after her husband's death, \"Cosima helped the Bayreuth Festival to achieve its international breakthrough,\" Hilmes points out, as he follows her through the process, drawing on material freshly available in the Wahnfried archives. [...] married to the composer, Cosima never overcame her sense of guilt toward Billow and all five children.

While the book displays insights about Goodall's elusive personality and follows the line of powerful influences that shaped his musical convictions (\"I like my music to come up from the bowels of the earth,\" declared Goodall), it equally illuminates musical life in Britain, particularly during World War II and after. Lucas tells them all with a reporters broad, balanced view, leaving us aware of how Goodall's years of digging in as a builder of choruses and ad -hoc orchestras, of assistant-conductor postings to better-known maestros, deepened his roots and readied him for belated bloom.