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WILLIAM WALTON: FAçADE (Decca). At the 1923 London première of Façade, Edith Sitwell read her poems, with their witty musical accompaniment by her young friend Walton, into the mouth of a mask painted on the curtain hiding her from view. Public and critics alike pronounced the evening an outrage. But the musical "entertainment" has been revived again and again, currently in this recording by Actress Hermione Gingold and Countertenor Russell Oberlin, with Thomas Dunn conducting the small chamber ensemble. Unfortunately for them, Dame Edith herself, with Peter Pears, has performed the work for London...
Treasure Unearthed. He had to wait 16 years, but last week an interested audience gladly paid to hear Starker, one of the world's finest cello players, make his belated Carnegie Hall debut. For the occasion Starker performed the U.S. première of Haydn's Concerto in C for Violoncello and Orchestra, a work lost for nearly two centuries until it was unearthed in a castle in Czechoslovakia three years...
...Denning and Mary LaRoche as her parents and Gina Gillespie as the little sister; Harris Against the World has Jack Klugman in the title role and Patricia Barry as his wife; Tom, Dick and Mary stars Steve Franken as Dick, Joyce Bulifant as Mary, and Don Galloway as Tom. Premi...
Television's second week of premières was staged almost entirely by CBS. As incumbent ratings champion, having had eight of the top ten prime-time shows last season, CBS waited until the challengers had flashed nearly all their goods before spreading out its twelve new entries for 1964-65. In one or two instances, it could thus be said that the best was saved for last, but in general CBS's new shows lack the warmth of those on the other networks. CBS has a cool and mechanical touch. Its choices in comedy seem cynical, where...
...Reporter is a much-yellowed Front Page, with hoods out of West Side Story. In the première, these hoods -who walked the New York streets in sneakers and tight pants, snapping their fingers-stabbed a man who tried to interrupt them at rape. The man stumbled into a basement and called up a columnist (played by Harry Guardino) who had denounced people who stand around watching street crimes without taking action. Now that this fellow had taken action, he was cut and dying, and he wanted the columnist to know about it. For the hour that followed...