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...Caterina Beer-Fornario, Ruth Gallagher '49, Anthony A. Giarraputo '50, Andrew M. Hoath '50, and Cynthia Lloyd '50, The program includes Renaissance metots and madrigals, 17th century music for the harp, Bach's Italian Concerto, da Vinci's Fluto Sonata, arias by Mozart, Puccini, Vordi and Donaudy, and a Fantasia Russa for piano composed for this occasion by Jean-Pierre Barricelli...
...Disney use his Rite of Spring in Fantasia, but does not approve of the result...
Thornton Wilder's answer is that contemporaries, blinded by details, would have put together a different story from the one that history tells. The Ides of March is "a fantasia on certain events and persons of the last days of the Roman republic." Taking only a few liberties with the historical events, Author Wilder has imagined the documents he needs and made a police-court dossier that has plausibility (the kind of plausibility that Robert Graves achieved in I, Claudius) without pretense to truth. Wilder calls his novel a "suppositional reconstruction." The result is an amusing book, or, more...
Gateways to Music (Thurs. 5 p.m., CBS). The Columbia Concert Orchestra, playing Intermezzo, from Kodály's Háry János Suite; Liszt's Hungarian Fantasia; Bartók's Rumanian Folk Dances...
Philadelphia Orchestra (Sat. 5 p.m., CBS). Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Tallis, Beethoven's Sixth (Pastoral) Symphony. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy...