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FANFARE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Al Hirt's hard, sharp trumpet blows a refreshing note into the minor key of summer reruns as he stars in the first of 13 hot-month shows, with Guests Eydie Gorme and Erroll Garner making cool music. Premi...
MARTIN'S LIE (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). The American première of the Gian Carlo Menotti opera that was first performed last June in Bristol Cathedral as part of the Bath Festival. This performance was taped by the original cast...
...occasion was the world première of Charles Ives's Fourth Symphony, and if not with sneezes, the score was alive with musical snorts and snickers, hiccups and heehaws. It was one of the most difficult symphonies ever played -more, in fact, than any one conductor could handle. To help referee such rowdy goings-on as 27 different rhythms being played at the same time, Stokowski stationed auxiliary conductors in the string and percussion sections. Miraculously, they shaped all the disparate elements into a musical experience of rare delight. The Fourth Symphony was a masterpiece, another great work...
...meanwhile, New York's Phoenix Theater, under the leadership of idealistic Producers T. Edward Hambleton and Norris Houghton, had been putting on everything from Oh Dad, Poor Dad ... to the Western première of Russia's The Dragon, a banned-at-home critique of Stalin and Khrushchev. In the way of the worthy, the Phoenix had run on a healthy yearly deficit. Joining with the APA seemed a natural evolution. The Phoenix yearned for a permanent repertory group-their own efforts to establish one having failed-so they could eliminate the traumas of one-shot productions, plan...
...group's following just when it needs it. With a larger capacity next year in the Lyceum, the aim is to build this year's 7,500 subscribers to 20,000. At Michigan in late September the company will break in three new productions: the world première of Archibald MacLeish's Heracles, Ibsen's The Wild Duck, and the Kaufman-Hart comedy You Can't Take It With You. All will be added to the current repertory for the Broadway season next year, if they work. "We are very catholic," says Rabb...