Word: laderman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHITSUNDAY SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). An original oratorio, Galileo, has been commissioned to commemorate the appearance of the Holy Spirit to the Apostles on this seventh Sunday after Easter. Libretto by Joe Darion, score by Ezra Laderman, and featuring Basso Ara Berberian as the troubled astronomer...
...Idiot, narrated by Kurd Hatfield, and last summer had a three-part series on the changing role of modern women in church and society called The Evolution of Eve. Scheduled for spring is a CBS special-a Brecht-like oratorio on Galileo and the Inquisition by Composer Ezra Laderman and Joe Darion, lyricist of the off-Broadway hit, Man of La Mancha. NBC's Frontiers of Faith will soon undertake a twelve-part series on modern ethics-including one program called "The Manly Art of Seduction," inspired by Hugh Hefner's Playboy philosophy. ABC's Directions offered...
...Ezra Laderman's original score makes the pictures literally cohere, flow together, and progress. For the childhood melancholies, he has devised a haunting leitmotif that occurs again and again to enhance the glory and meaning of later triumphs...
...music and photography, for all their beauty and aptness, are only corollaries to the script. The author, Archibald MacLeish, wisely insisted that Glazier and Laderman work from it without changes. It is simple and poetic, yet within the eulogistic lyricism, MacLeish offers dozens of fresh insights into the motives and character of Mrs. Roosevelt. He makes her humanity human. And at the end we know the woman, not as a psychiatrist or a political admirer would, but as her friends must have...
...Eagle Stirred (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). World premiere of a dramatic oratorio that seeks modern meaning in the Biblical Exodus. Composed by Ezra Laderman...