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This Saturday, as the Metropolitan Opera turns 100 years old, it is wrestling with this question as never before. The centennial celebration, to be telecast live on PBS, is an extravagant affair lasting eight hours; offering a nonstop parade of stars (Domingo, Pavarotti, Milnes, Sutherland, Nilsson, Te Kanawa, among 90 others), it seems to be a ringing affirmation of the opera-as-vocalism theory. But the Met gala is more likely a capstone than a portent, for the very nature of opera is being changed by history and technology. The Met-which began life...
Party leaders brushed aside concerns about possible demonstrations by the city's gay community and the logistics of the Pacific time zone, which may cause some convention events to be telecast in the East after midnight. Manatt argued that the Democrats have neglected the Western states and paid for it in poor showings by the party's presidential candidates in the West since 1972. The last Democratic Convention that went west was the 1960 one that nominated John F. Kennedy in Los Angeles. Said Manatt: "Once every 24 years isn't too often...
Your assessment of The Thorn Birds was superb. After watching the first three hours of the telecast, I am satisfied that the film should be renamed The Turkey. John M. Murphy Madison, Conn...
Scenting a scoop, CNN headquarters in Atlanta had its Moscow bureau chief, Stuart Loory, ask the foreign ministry if the conference would be televised live, an extremely rare event in the Soviet capital. When the reply was yes, CNN bought time on a satellite to hook into the telecast. The Soviets supplied two feeds: one for the picture and sound in Russian, the other for a rendition in English by a Soviet translator. Cost...
Chevrolet awards two player-of-the-game scholarships--one to an offensive performer and one to a defenseman--after each ABC telecast, and quarterback Don Allard took the offensive honors for his 112-yard rushing effort. Crusader linebacker Harry Flaherty, who came up with Holy Cross's second interception in the first quarter and delivered several key tackles, won the award for defense. Considering the way the Harvard defense performed, one can only assume that either Chevy likes to see the honors divided between the schools or that choosing an outstanding individual performer from the Crimson's defensive ranks...