Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leads in such works as Letter to the World and Appalachian Spring and was the Christ figure in El Penitente. He now runs his own school in Manhattan, makes occasional tours in a Volkswagen bus with his small dance company (four girls and one man), plus Composer Cage and Pianist David Tudor...
...conductor (in Gian Carlo Menotti's The Consul). Although he has moved farther and faster than any other U.S. conductor in the last decade, Schippers shows little of the hungry will to succeed that has always characterized that earlier Wunderkind, Leonard Bernstein. Nor does Schippers have Composer-Conductor-Pianist Bernstein's determination to be a Renaissance man-about-music. When he decided to become a conductor (at 20), he abandoned promising careers as a pianist and composer, and he no longer yearns for those early loves...
...wealthy Russian wool importer, Milstein was guided into a virtuoso's career by his ambitious mother, freely admits that he was unenthusiastic about the violin until he was 16 and began to give public recitals. In 1925 he left Russia for Western Europe with his lifelong friend, Pianist Vladimir Horowitz...
Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic (CBS, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). Despite the billing, the star is Composer Igor Stravinsky, making his U.S. TV debut as he conducts excerpts from his Firebird Suite. Canadian Pianist Glenn Gould plays the first movement of Bach's D-Minor Concerto, and Soprano Eileen Farrell sings the "Suicidio" aria from La Gioconda...
Ford Star Time (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). In The Wonderful World of Jack Paar, the big-budget show salutes an operator who showed TV producers how to entertain for peanuts. Jack is joined by some guests he has helped promote: Singer Pat Suzuki, Comic Jonathan Winters, Pianist Joés Melis...