Word: premi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHILDREN'S THEATER (NBC, 6-7 p.m.). Premiére of a new show for young children. Tonight a musical adaptation of James Thurber's fantasy, The Great Quillow. Color...
...preposterous plot is meant to be a mocking comment on contemporary society, and Composer Gian Carlo Menotti intended to blend it all into a witty comic opera. But when The Last Savage was given its world premiére at Paris' Opera-Comique last week, the satiric fun was blanketed with annoyed disappointment. In his first comedy since The Telephone in 1947, Menotti had fallen well below his usual mark, with a tiresome, lurching, seldom funny libretto and a derivative score that even in its academic jokes was hardly musique sérieuse...
...beginning of an operatic tour d'art that is the best news of the Met's new season. In what Met Manager Rudolf Bing calls "the Schippers festival," the young conductor will lead the orchestra in at least 36 performances of four operas, including the première run of Gian Carlo Menotti's Last Savage. At 24, Schippers was one of the youngest conductors ever to appear at the Met; now, nine years later, he is established as the best conductor of opera yet born in America...
...BILL DANA SHOW (NBC, 7-7:30 p.m.). A new situation comedy about a hotel bellhop based on the character José Jiménez. Premi...
Solemn Bows. Vexations' première proved it to be in many ways Satie's finest joke. After even a dozen hearings, the music became more a hex than a vex, its funereal tune permanently etched in everyone's ear. The august New York Times dispatched eight critics in two-hour relays to cover the performance and gave 101 column inches to an account the next day. One critic, who signed in as "Anon," confessed he had slept through his stint, but another, who took over the keyboard himself when one of Cage's men failed...