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...Trumpeter Shorty Rogers at a Nike-Zeus site, Pianist Peter Nero playing beneath a radar scanner, the New Christy Minstrels on the Pacific beach near Los Angeles; also another show starred Ella Fitzgerald. Stan Kenton realized what must have been a lifelong ambition by directing a field of playerless instruments dangling from wires, while the real orchestra sat off in the wings and played a pretentious Kenton work called Existentia in Brass that sounded like Malaguena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: New Life | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

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