Word: guests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Smothers brothers have is the show's ratings; this season, attracting a youthful following that regards them as hippies with haircuts, it has consistently ranked among the top variety shows. On the opening program in September, CBS showed signs of giving in a little. The network approved the guest appearance of Folk Singer Pete Seeger, who had been blackballed by the networks since he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1955. But then CBS turned right around and banned one of Seeger's songs, Waist Deep in the Big Muddy, because...
ISSUES & ANSWERS (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen is the guest...
...constricting commitments and loath to give up the heady rewards of widespread guest-conducting, they may want to wait out the blur of transition that now troubles the orchestra world. Until the position of music director is redefined, they will be careful not to tie themselves to a set of responsibilities that could become obsolete. They may well end up with orchestras such as New York's, Chicago's and Boston's-but they probably also will continue to go their headlong, footloose way, gypsying around the musical world...
Mehta's bookings for 1968, for example, call for 22 weeks of concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, three operas at the Met-among them Tosca, which he conducted last week-one opera on Italian television, five recording sessions, and guest appearances at five festivals and with five other orchestras...
...academy, and moved to Liverpool as assistant conductor (part of his prize). On the Liverpool podium, Mehta quickly discovered that "I was just unprepared to lead a professional orchestra. I learned at their expense but I learned." Two seasons of guest appearances and substituting for ailing elders gained him attention in America, and in 1961 he arrived in Montreal, says Concertmaster Calvin Sieb, "like a shooting star, burning all the time...