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...group of madrigals and chansons, performed with a semichorus, went very well save for a couple of imprecise entrances. Outstanding was Monteverdi's Dorinda, with its tortured Mannerist harmonies. "The Promise of Living," from Copland's opera The Tender Land (1953), went far better than on the Chorus' telecast, owing to the use of more singers and rehearsals. The opera was not considered a success; but the criticism was aimed at the libretto and dramatic structure. The music was always warm and limpid...
Kirke Mechem's Rules for Behaviour (1955), with piano obbligato, bore up well on second hearing. Written in a crisp, clean Irving Fine manner, it took its text from some amusing rules for children found in a 1787 church in Williamsburg, Virginia. The concert, like the telecast, ended with Vaughan Williams' robust and lusty antiphon Let all the World in Every Corner Sing...
...setting up a special telecast featuring Police Commissioner Stephen Kennedy, an NBC producer offered two of the headquarters reporters $25 each to appear with the commissioner and question him. Then they learned that Kennedy's talk would include New York's semiannual crime statistics-a surefire front-page story...
...only did the two reporters reject the offer, but their ten headquarters colleagues backed them up in their demand that, since they cover headquarters 2 hours a day, they are entitled to get police news first. Kennedy went through with his telecast, but waited until he was off the air to give newsmen the figures that made headlines the next morning (JUVENILE CRIME...
Education School teacher trainees and members of the Summer School Conference on Educational TV watched a closed-circuit telecast of a Newton schoolroom session yesterday morning as the Harvard Graduate School of Education went into the second day of an experiment in educational television...