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Joan Ganz Cooney, 44, revolutionized children's television in 1969 when she began producing Sesame Street for the Public Broadcasting Service. A former NBC publicity director, she now presides over the nonprofit Children's Television Workshop, Inc., which produces 130 segments of Sesame Street and 130 of Electric Company each year. Elegant and outspoken, Mrs. Cooney has served on the President's Commission on Drug Abuse and was recently appointed to the media-monitoring National News Council. In the past year she has formed two C.T.W. subsidiaries to produce shows for commercial TV and ease Sesame Street...
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, next door at the Jazz Workshop until the end of the weekend, plays zillions of obscure instruments--the strich, for example--and generally puts on a high-energy show. He's a giant anomaly in progressive jazz, with a long track record, but as the novelty wears away he seems less special than he once did. Catch his act some time, but maybe not this week, with so much other good stuff...
Rahsaan Roland Kirk is next door at the Jazz Workshop till the end of the weekend. Kirk is very high-energy and plays a zillion instruments, many of which you've never even heard of, often all at once. He's a giant anomaly in progressive jazz whose hay-days never seem to end. In a week less full of uniformly good stuff we'd recommend him without a second thought; he may be hard to squeeze in this week, what with Chem 20 hourlies piling up and all, but you really should catch his act at least once...
...Babies, the New York Theater Company's improvisional group, will perform tomorrow evening at 8 p.m. in Longfellow Hall for free. The group's visit to Cambridge is sponsored by a Vis Stud video workshop; a rare treat that's not to be missed...
...special programs are as career-oriented as the publishing course. There is Alumni College, where Harvard graduates learn about China, Japan and Classical Greece from big-name professors. Then too, there's the Dance Center, the Institute in Arts Administration and a week-long workshop for college teachers in "Personalized Self-Instruction," better known as self-paced learning, a technique developed in Harvard science courses. Probably the most career-oriented program besides the publishing course is the Health Careers Summer Program, a course designed to prepare low-income educationally disadvantaged college students for med school or medical-related fields...