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...some 50 members of the audience, who left during the first act, Jenufa was apparently still too bleak to take. But those who stayed let loose with a volley of bravos for the cast and brilliant Yugoslav Conductor Lovro Von Matacic. It looked as if Composer Janacek, in his slow and tortuous way, might at last be winning the audience that had so long eluded...
Mixed Methods. Even children were taught to cheat. The probing Congressmen summoned Child Actress Patty (The Miracle Worker) Duke, a Challenge champ. Her manager, John Ross, testified that answers were fed to her by Associate Producer Shirley Bernstein, 36, sister of Conductor Leonard Bernstein. In the popular-music category, elfin Patty tied with Child Actor Eddie (The Music Man) Hodges, 12, split $64,000 with him.* Manager Ross admitted that he gave $1,000 of his share to the show's "People-Getter" Irving Harris, pocketed $3,800 of Patty's prize himself as his manager...
...musical performance itself, as everybody agreed, was first-rate. Guided by Conductor Erich Leinsdorf, Principals Lisa Delia Casa, Cesare Siepi, Mildred Miller and Regina Resnik sang with the security and style that comes from long experience. Of the two singers making their debut, Finnish Bass-Baritone Kim Borg (as the Count) was adequate, but Swedish Soprano Elisabeth Soederstroem (as Susanna) was a silvery voiced delight. The sets by Designer Oliver (Rashomon, House of Flowers) Messel were superbly elegant: a boudoir whose rose-colored silk panels and drapes glowed with a kind of faded splendor, a formal garden suffused with...
...Payoff. Meanwhile, other former contestants began to sing. Manhattan Adman Arthur Cohn Jr. recalled his appearance on The $64,000 Challenge. At a warmup, said Cohn, his opponent came out of a private session with Associate Producer Shirley Bernstein (sister of Conductor Leonard Bernstein), positively popping with both questions and answers. Disgusted with what he was convinced was a fraud, Cohn took his beating, complained to the show's sponsor (Revlon), and insisted that his $250 consolation prize be donated to charity...
...Bach Society Orchestra played its first concert of the year with verve and discretion, though the fare offered was surprisingly light. Perhaps the orchestra's conductor, John Harbison, is thinking of the taxing problems he will face in preparing a Bach cantata for the next program. At any rate, the Haydn symphony (No. 8) performed on Sunday was charming, if slight, and an interesting example of a classical piece with baroque devices still hanging on. No. 8 is part symphony, part concerto grosso, employing a harpsichord and three solo strings; the solo'cello was played with particular suavity and grace...