Word: musication
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHARLES SCHULZ (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). Co-Stars Schulz and Brown, live and in animation, with friends and admirers Astronaut Walter Schirra, the Royal Guardsmen (singing excerpts from Snoopy and the Red Baron), Vince Guaraldi (playing his composition Linus and Lucy) and Rod McKuen (growling out his theme music from a forthcoming Charlie Brown feature movie...
...sting of an adder; his furrowed brow is a topography of inconsolable anguish. His Hamlet is a seismogram of a soul in shock. It is a Hamlet of spleen and sorrow, of fire and ice, of bantering sensuality, withering sarcasm and soaring intelligence. Williamson cuts through the music of the Shakespearean line to the marrow of its meaning. He spares no contempt for the perfidious king who killed his father, but he saves his rage for the unfeeling gods who, in all true tragedy, make and mangle human destiny. Williamson is, in all, a great, doomed, spine-shivering Hamlet...
...MILITARY PHILOSOPHERS, by Anthony Powell. The ninth volume in his serial novel, A Dance to the Music of Time, expertly convoys Powell's innumerable characters through the futility, boredom and heroism of World...
...really the most final of finales. Bernstein will continue to direct televised children's concerts with the orchestra and serve as a guest conductor, and the Philharmonic has honored him for life with the quaint title of Laureate Conductor. Even so, his ten-year tenure as music director was a particularly personal and successful relationship. The first American-born conductor to head a front-rank U.S. orchestra, he was chosen to succeed the late Dimitri Mitropoulos in 1958; since then, subscriptions rose from 9,886 to 25,570, and concerts at Lincoln Center's Philharmonic Hall, at least...
...that we were playing for, but also a tradition, a culture, and a great people. And so, when the drums picked up the tempo out in the street, and the second line shouted and began to dance, and the flame-painted umbrellas appeared, I played my loudest and gayest music...