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...Salzburg concert was S.R.O. In Warsaw, where the orchestra was showered with flowers, Associate Manager Carlos Moseley reported: "The whole hall stood and cried 'bis' in some funny way that sounded like hundreds of birds cooing." Bernstein managed to steal a few hours to visit Chopin's home and drop in at a jazz club for a jam session. The party broke up at 3 a.m., and Lenny was accompanied to his hotel in a long, gay, noisy procession that dispersed only after scores of students of both sexes kissed him farewell...
...Asia. Cracking down on Singapore s boisterous seamy side, Lee banned jukeboxes, closed down some 1,200 pinball machines, and ordered the Singapore radio to stop broadcasting rock 'n' roll. Later he ruled that the jukeboxes could stay if they stuck to the classics-Beethoven and Chopin, for example. Meanwhile, police cleared the newsstands of pornography, padlocked eight girlie-magazine publishers and swooped through bars, sending B-girls home. Mapping a massive assault on Singapore's notorious gangsterism, police debated issuing identification cards to Singapore's 7,000 known hoods and pimps. The immediate, unexpected result...
...dramatic monologue by a man who told the stirring story of a 41-year-old doughnut, a book reviewer, a man showing a travel film on Texas. Biggest hit: an obviously talented 17-year-old Korean pianist named Tong II Han, whose fluid performance of Scarlatti and Chopin sent the audience into a dither...
Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Mr. and Mrs. José Ferrer (Rosemary Clooney) and Gisele MacKenzie sing pop tunes, opera's Georgio Tozzi and Nicolai Gedda sing a duet from The Bartered Bride, Jose Iturbi plays Chopin, Liszt and Rameau on piano and harpsichord, Maria Tallchief and André Eglevsky dance a classical pas de deux. Color...
...young man of 21, Red China's Fu Tsun was a good enough pianist to win third prize in Warsaw's 1955 International Chopin Piano Competition. Belgium's Queen Mother Elisabeth invited him to play in her country. Recognizing a valuable cultural export, Red China granted Fu Tsun permission to study in Poland and to give 200 concerts in the satellite countries of Eastern Europe...