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THIS MORNING (ABC, 10:30 a.m. to noon). Dick Cavett hosts a new topical-talk and variety show. Premi...
Unfortunately, it is also hard to describe in music. Harris' symphony, given its world première in Manhattan last week by the New York Philharmonic, has many qualities that have made Harris, at 70, an important American composer: logical structure, transparent textures and a broad melodic sense. Yet in the performance of the somewhat underrehearsed Philharmonic-under Harris' unpracticed baton-the mainspring that should have wound the work into a powerful coil of tension remained slack. Only the opening section of the 20-minute piece, with its urgent string passages set off against barking brass, was fully...
CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL (CBS, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). The season's première is Part 1 of Testadirapa, an Italian film about a 19th century youngster who lives an idyllic life until the authorities rule him a truant. Kukla, Fran and Ollie are hosts...
FLESH & BLOOD (NBC, 8:30-10:30 p.m.). Arthur Penn produces and directs William Hanley's play, originally scheduled for Broadway last year but bought by NBC for a TV première. It's all about a close-knit contemporary American family whose members discover they don't really know each other. Starring Edmond O'Brien, E. G. Marshall, Kim Stanley and Suzanne Pleshette...
...HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A nighttime version of the daytime celebrity game, with Peter Marshall hosting a guest panel made up of Raymond Burr, Edie Adams, Milton Berle, Nanette Fabray, Abby Dalton, Buddy Hackett and Morey Amsterdam. Premi...