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ELUES ETUDE (Limelight). Oscar Peterson is still a topflight jazz pianist-a suave swinger with impeccable technique-crisp, fast and featherlight. But half these tracks catch him with a new drummer and bassist, and at times the trio seems merely to be making polite conversation. Oscar softly grunts and moans, rather surprising accompaniments for urbane offerings like Let's Fall in Love and The Shadow of Your Smile...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 "Tanglewood-Music Under the Trees" takes a look at the Berkshire Music Festival in Tanglewood, Mass, with Erich Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Composers Aaron Copland and Gunther Schuller; Sopranos Phyllis Curtin and Jane Marsh; and Pianist Grant Johannesen...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). "A Portrait of Van Cliburn" follows the pianist from rehearsal to performance and during rare relaxation...
...Lotharios. One furtively removes his wedding ring, only to see it go spinning crazily off among the dancing feet. In an endearing seduction scene that avoids nearly every nudenik movie cliché, the shy blonde hasn't a stitch on by the time she reproachfully tells her playboy-pianist: "I don't trust you." He, in turn, observes boyish discretion by bounding up at intervals to tussle with a window shade that lets in too much light. The sly tone is sustained through a dormitory matron's wonderfully irrelevant lecture on morals to the film...
Died. Florence Ellinwood Allen, 82, pioneer woman jurist, who, after a damaged nerve thwarted her ambition to be a concert pianist, turned to law in Ohio, where she became the nation's first woman to be elected a county prosecutor (1920), first woman elected to a state supreme court (1922) and first woman appointed to a U.S. court of appeals (1934); of a cerebral thrombosis; in Waite Hill, Ohio...