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...CHAMPIONS (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Rowan and Martin's summer replacement is anything but a laughin: three supercrime fighters, who tackle next-to-impossible missions assigned to them by Nemesis, an international organization dedicated to law, order and peace. Premi...
...Patrick McGoohan, formerly the weekly hero of Secret Agent, returns as a man incarcerated in a remote and mysterious community by unknown captors. His identity and the reasons for his imprisonment unfold as the series progresses. A summer replacement for the Jackie Gleason Show, Premi...
Such perplexities are typical of the work of Carl Orff. Everybody agrees that Orff, at 72, ranks as Germany's foremost composer, but nobody agrees on why, or even whether he ought to. Thus the world première of his Prometheus last week by the Stuttgart Opera was, depending on the listener, either the most satisfying Orff in a long time or the most exasperating...
Howard Hanson is a musical conservative who has probably done more than any other American composer to promote new and experimental music. For 40 years, before his retirement in 1964 as director of the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music, he supervised the premières of nearly 2,000 pieces by more than 700-odd U.S. composers. Many of these compositions were in a harshly dissonant, far-out style for which Hanson himself had little liking. Nevertheless, he insisted, "Well-knit music that sounds like hell is still competent musicianship and deserves a hearing...
...simple major chord "is to music what such words as God and love are to language," he stayed mostly within the bounds of traditional harmony, building up solid forms that were infused with ruddy Nordic vigor and romantic lyricism. Last week, conducting the New York Philharmonic in the world première of his Sixth Symphony at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, Hanson, 71, made his case again...