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KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Musicians Al Hirt and Pete Fountain, Singer Lana Cantrell and Dancer Peter Gennaro in New Orleans for "Mardi Gras...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). "The Sounds and Sights of New Orleans," featuring Trumpeter Al Hirt and Pete Fountain with his clarinet; the jazz museum with its own living legend, Guitarist Danny Barker; and the inevitable Young Tuxedo Brass Band on the way to the cemetery...
...ensemble of 26 singers and 11 instrumentalists performed the cantatas "Der Herr denket an uns" (BWV 196), "Ich bin ein guter Hirt" (BWV 85), "Ihr Menschen, Ruehmet Gottes Liebe" (BWV 167), and the motet "Komm, Jesu, komm" (BWV 229) elegantly and unpretentiously. They produced a full but never heavy sound; the chorus's long threads of melody were sung smoothly and sensitively; the diction was inpeccable. Collins's phrasing and dynamics avoided the spectacular, but could be striking on occasion through their subtlety. He chose to take the final cadence of "Der Herr denket" simply and quietly, rather than grandly...
...elimination of these solos was all the more puzzling because the soloists did begin to sing in "Ich bin ein guter Hirt." Marsha Vleck, soprano; Jane Struss, contralto; Karl Dan Sorensen, tenor, and Francis Hester, bass, all sang clearly and sensitively, and, like the chorus, without any heaviness or pretension. Sorensen was especially fine, floating without apparent effort over long lines almost continuously in his highest register. Hester was stronger in "Ihr Menschen" than in "Ich bin ein guter Hirt," in which there were moments when he was almost covered by the orchestra. Penelope Ann Colwell and Cynthia Weinrich...
...productions. But she and other cast members took time out-"Operation Big Daddy," she dubbed it-to put on an abridged version for the President and his guests, who included most leading Washington luminaries, as well as such show-biz notables as Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Crawford and Al Hirt...