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Twentieth Century Concert Hall (Sun. 1 p.m., CBS). Conductor: Leopold Stokowski...
...superimposed on the studio scene). On his first show, he gabbed with Brooklyn Dodgers Catcher Roy Campanella (just home from busting up the third World Series game) about his six kids, his baseball trophies and the good life in Queens, N.Y. That done, Murrow switched to Conductor Leopold Stokowski and his wife, Gloria Vanderbilt, who strolled about their Manhattan apartment explaining Gloria's paintings, flipping through a family photograph album, and showing off Stokowski's music room, which was cluttered with a collection of gongs (Gloria obligingly banged one). Although Murrow's intention to show "extraordinary people...
...Crude & the Creative. Stokowski, who admits to 66, is as enthusiastic as a teen-ager over his armfuls of new scores. "Music is becoming decentralized," he says. "It must. This country grew on individual initiative, first physically-with railroads-then culturally. It must continue, or we will never reach our flowering period...
...kind of music Americans need to hear: "We are looking for two kinds, the kind that reacts to the crude life around us, and the kind that creates a remote world that is far from everyday life." Stokowski has a strong feeling for the second kind, promises new fantasies by such composers as Modernist Wallingford Riegger and Tapesichordist Vladimir Ussachevsky (TIME, Nov. 10) for future CBS network programs...
...into briefer programs, along with salon music and show tunes. Nowadays, scarcely a program of CBS's informal Music Room, its recitals by Organist E. Power Biggs (both on Sunday mornings) or its Wednesday Top Hat show goes by without airing some new composition. Old friends Daniel and Stokowski met last winter and agreed that the time was ripe for a more ambitious program. The network played along...