Word: nielsens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago, a Scandinavian composer proclaimed: "I believe in Bach, Mozart, Carl Nielsen, and absolute music." Carl Nielsen? At the mention of the Danish composer's name, most non-Scandinavians could only look blank or grope for their music dictionaries. Nielsen's reputation in his homeland had been supreme since his death in 1931 at 66, but unlike his Finnish contemporary Jean Sibelius, he was a nobody in the European and especially the U.S. music world...
Until recently, that is. In 1962 Leonard Bernstein began programming his works in New York Philharmonic concerts and spurred wider interest through a series of brilliant recordings. By 1965, the centennial of Nielsen's birth, his music was nudging into the general repertory. The number of Nielsen recordings on the U.S. market jumped from three in 1960 to 35 at the end of 1967; last year alone, 16 were issued. Today he is a "new" discovery who, like Mahler and Ives, appeals to this eclectic era by combining the breadth of the 19th century symphony with the experimental spirit...
Movies (Wild and Wonderful) are reruns. The networks explain that the holiday audience drops roughly 10%-so why be bighearted at Christmas and run new episodes? More to the point, the pre-Christmas period is a so-called Nielsen "black week," when national ratings are not tabulated...
...Nielsen-ratings race so far this season, the perennial leader, CBS, is clobbering the competition again. Among TV's top 20 programs, CBS claims 14, including Andy Griffith (No. 1), Lucy (2), Gomer Pyle (5), Red Skelton (6) and Ed Sullivan (10). Moreover, CBS claims an average prime-time audience that is 11% bigger than NBC's and a record 25% ahead of third-place ABC. Yet standing as No. 1 can be an honor without profit in TV country. CBS's earnings fell 43% in the third quarter compared with the same period last year...
...Dundee and the Culhane, NBC's Maya and Accidental Family, and ABC's Hondo, Custer, Iron Horse and F. Lee Bailey's Good Company. The biggest surprise is NBC's decision to dump the 3½-year-old Man from U.N.C.L.E. after Jan. 15; the Nielsen rating had dropped from No. 3 in June 1966 to 68th last week. Among new shows coming up: a variety show starring Jonathan Winters, revivals of The Saint and The Avengers, and, replacing U.N.C.L.E., Comics Dan Rowan & Dick Martin...