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...Omnibus (Sun. 9 p.m., ABC). A pre-Broadway preview of The Ballad of Baby Doe, an American folk opera by Douglas Moore (TIME, July...
...Omnibus (Sun. 9 p.m., ABC). Robert Flaherty's Louisiana Story...
Career No. 4, his music classes at Brandeis University and his musical lectures on the Ford Foundation's TV program, Omnibus, show him to be a gifted and exciting teacher ? not only at home in all the world's music, but sensitively capable of relating it to the here and now. Two of his TV lectures have recently been released on records ? along with three other disks presenting Conductor, Com poser and Pianist Bernstein...
...typically ambitious Omnibus undertaking-but less ambitious in size than it started out to be. Two years ago, after listening to a British general expound over cocktails how Gettysburg "changed the course of civilization," Omnibus Executive Producer Robert Saudek decided to re-enact the battle on TV. At first it was to be treated as a classroom demonstration, with tin soldiers on a sand table. This gave way to a plan to film the battle at Lenox, Mass, on terrain resembling Gettysburg without the monuments. One hundred and fifty bearded and costumed actors and volunteer extras, all Civil War buffs...
Gettysburg was a subject worthy to join the nuggets that Omnibus has been throwing into TV's current season of dross. In recent weeks it has served up a stunning Oedipus (TIME, Jan. 21), an illuminating and instructive essay on the dance by Agnes de Mille. and Leonard Bernstein's brilliant primer on modern music. To do this, Omnibus must virtually ignore the rest of TV's unabashed efforts to please at any price. Such is Omnibus' charter. So far it has spent some $8,900,000 of Ford Foundation funds in its five seasons (about...