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Thinking in large, impressive figures, as is his habit, Negligence Lawyer Melvin Belli asked a million dollars for his clients. Belli was representing the widow and children of William Kapell, the brilliant 31 -year-old pianist killed in an air crash in 1953 while returning home from Australia. At the trial in 1961, Belli bolstered his argument with a lustrous array of musical talent to testify to Kapell's genius and high earning power - Rudolf Serkin, Artur Rubinstein, Van Cliburn, Jascha Heifetz, Isaac Stern, Leonard Bernstein, Leopold Stokowski. But before the jury could award a penny...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC. 10-11 p.m.). A program devoted to young artists, including Singers Liza Minelli and Jack Jones, Pianist Susan Starr, Folk Singers Ian and Sylvia, and Dancer Violette Verdy, with Jane Wyman as hostess. Color...
Complete Musician. Hindemith was a composer's composer-and a complete musician. He wrote music, as Albert Einstein once said, "as a tree bears fruit"-great bushels of music, turned out in orderly, workmanlike style. He was a concert violist and pianist, a competent player of every other instrument in the orchestra, and a greatly admired conductor. In a single day at the Berlin Festival in 1960, Hindemith conducted four choirs, played a three-string vielle in a recital of 14th century songs, then sat back to listen to the world première of his Motets for Tenor...
VICTOR BORGE AT CARNEGIE HALL (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Accompanying the pianistic capers of Victor Borge are Tenor Sergio Franchi and Pianist Leonid Hambro...
Monk's Dream and Criss-Cross (Columbia) present Jazz Pianist Thelonious Monk and his quartet in the finest of fettle, reconsidering works from his collection of private standards. (Crepuscule with Nellie, Rhythm-a-ning, Monk's Dream) in performances that prove the immense vitality of his Monkish imagination...