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Shadow & Light. Premièred in bomb-torn London in 1944, Child proved a big, immediate success. Curiously, Tippett then retreated into a cocoon of meditative quietude for the next ten years to crystallize his musical vision-which, as he puts it, is to "know my shadow and my light." He emerged in 1955 with The Midsummer Marriage, a kind of 20th century Magic Flute, overloaded with symbolism but containing some of his most lyrically beautiful music. His next major work was the powerful opera King Priam, which marked a dramatic departure from anything he had done before. Spare, angular...
...PEOPLE (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). William Shatner plays a prosecuting attorney in a new series that replaces one of the early-season CBS casualties. Premi...
SHELL'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF GOLF (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). Première of a new series of international golf tournaments. American Dave Marr plays Britain's Bernard Hunt in England...
...British Salvation Army colonel, go ye not to James Bond movies, for the "maimed, tortured people who go screaming through them" are a menace to charity drives and highway safety. Meanwhile, 007 himself, Cinemactor Sean Connery, 34, was raising funds for a newspaper charity by attending the London première of The Yellow RollsRoyce, sporting a beard grown on vacation and his wife, Cinemactress Diane Cilento, 31, who was sporting a white fur coat...
Most of the poets try to salvage some meaning from the assassination. W. H. Auden's quiet meditation has been set to music by Stravinsky and will have us U.S. première in New York on Dec. 6: Why then? Why there? Why thus, we cry, did he die? The Heavens are silent. What he was, he was: What he is fated to become Depends on us. Remembering his death, How we choose to live Will decide its meaning. When a just man dies, Lamentation and praise, Sorrow...