Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Omnibus (Sun. 9 p.m., ABC). The Lizzie Borden Case, a dramatization, and Agnes de Mille's Fall River Legend ballet...
...Festival Orchestra, an excellent strings group under the leadership of Daniel Pinkham. As well as playing some diverting performances of music by Karl Friedrich Abel and Henry Purcell, the Orchestra presented works of two composers who were Leverett House men, Robert Moevs and Pinkham himself. The Adagio from the ballet Endymion by Moevs, and the Concertante by Pinkham were both notable more for their lyrical warmth than for modern astringent harmonies. Perhaps a sojourn in Leverett House would do us all good...
Camera Three (Sun. 11:30 a.m., CBS). Part II of Stravinsky's opera-ballet L'Histoire du Soldat...
Fired? We'll Strike. As the proposal slowly ground through parliamentary machinery, virtually every musician and official of an opera-owning town began to berate the government. In Naples and Milan, the ballet troupes, orchestras and choral singers threatened with fine Italian logic to strike if they were fired. Opera leaders predicted the imminent closing of La Scala and other houses for lack of funds. Government opponents in the Senate feared a loss of tourist trade. (Said one opera stage director: "Tourists come to Italy to see the Pope, the Colosseum and opera. Next they'll tear down...
...ancient Greek and Roman amphitheaters were often acoustically so good that a sigh on stage carried to the farthest row. How to get the same characteristics under a roof and still make room for 100-piece orchestras, huge choral groups and whole opera companies with their oversize sets, ballet corps and costume designers is testing anew the ingenuity of the present generation of architects. Among their solutions...