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...once in a while you can expect the faculties of the school to get together and throw a tremendous concert. That's what the people at Berklee School of Music decided to do tonight. At 8 p.m. in Berklee's Performance Center, the Berklee School will present Berklee's all-star music faculty playing 200 years of jazz. Their big band ensemble will take on Scott Joplin, Louis Armstrong. Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Woody Herman and others. To get to the performance center hop a Dudley bus to Auditorium. Tickets are $5, $4 and $3. There is a $1.50 reduction...
...farm system that would not dry up. This meant that there were always new young men ready to play and play better than the new young men on other teams. It also meant that the Yankees could do cold-hearted things like let go of their veteran All-Star shortstop Phil Rizzuto as a surprise gesture on Old Timer's Day 1956 sure in the knowledge that Jerry Coleman, Gil McDougald or Billy Martin (each a star on his own) would fill the hole...
Looking ahead, the New England Conservatory, located at the Symphony stop on the Green Line, will have Jackie Byard and an all-star Afro-American Jazz group starting October 7. The concert is the first in a series of great concerts that the Conservatory will be presenting...
...year ever-in honor of NBC's own 50th anniversary. Highlights: the first network TV showing of Gone With the Wind in two parts (commercials were sold for $235,000 per minute) and a salute to cinema called LIFE Goes to the Movies. Despite its grandiose title and all-star goodies, TBE may have trouble developing a loyal audience. "With a title like that," says Frank Price, who heads Universal's TV division, "you need to have the Christians facing the lions. Nothing else will...
...contest at the convention-the only passionate one involving money, reputation and suspense -was between two closely matched news organizations, NBC and CBS (ABC, listening to its own mercenary heart, looked in at the convention from time to time, but preferred to play hookey with the likes of the All-Star game and thereby gained in the ratings). So much future prestige and so many advertising dollars were at stake that NBC, for example, is spending close to $10 million on the two conventions. That's a lot more than either party is spending on them. The result...