The Recluses
Talk story about a visit to the Metropolitan Museum's elegant new Chinese galleries. The galleries, which were financed by the Dillon Fund, are wrapped around 3 sides of the new Astor Court, a...
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Talk story about a chat with Jiri Kylian, director and choreographer of the Netherlands Dance Theatre which paid a brief visit to the Metropolitan Opera recently. Writer spoke with him in the...
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Talk story about a party that the Bronx Zoo gave on July 14, at dusk, an hour after it had closed for the day. The festivities began at Wild Asia Plaza. Dr. William Conway, the general director of the...
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Talk story about a chat with Dr. Thomas Dailey, a mountain-climbing surgeon who lives in Manhattan and is assembling a medical kit for a 2 1/2 week trek through the Tibetan plateau in China. Their...
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Talk. Interview with George Costakis, a 69-year-old Greek, whose collection of Russian art is being exhibited at the Guggenehim Museum. The show is called "Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia" & is an...
View ArticleReagan Genealogy
Talk story about Pres. Ronald Reagan's genealogy. Writer looked into the subject with the help of Dr. Hugh Peskett, the Senior Genealogist of "Debrett's Peerage," and reports that our chief executive...
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Talk story about watching two rehearsalsNthe second time a dress rehearsalNof a new production of Carl Maria von Weber's opera "Der Freischutz," at the City Opera.See the rest of the story at...
View ArticleMamluks
Talk story about a Metropolitan Museum exhibition of Mamluk art. The Mamluks were a remarkable military aristocracy of slaves and former slaves who ruled an enormous chunk of the Middle East in the...
View ArticleShort, Loud, and Fast
Talk story about a free concert for children at Carnegie Hall, performed by the American Symphony Orchestra. The concert was one of six identical one-hour programs, which have been designed to...
View ArticleComment
Comment about Northville, Michigan, as told by a friend who spent Christmas there visiting relatives. It is a suburban community fifteen miles west of Detroit, which has suddenly found itself in the...
View ArticleTelecast
Talk story about televising an opera during a performance. It was the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Puccini's "La Boheme," seen by an audience of about twenty million. The telecast was sent...
View ArticleRockefeller Wing
Talk story about the new Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at the Metropolitan Museum, which writer visited last week. It is a 42,000-square-foot addition to the south side of the museum, which is filled...
View ArticleTown Meeting
Talk story about attending a town meeting in Cornwall a rural village (pop. 993) in Addison County, Vermont, to hear the reading of an Article which requested the President of the U.S. to propose to...
View ArticleTHe Northville Ducks
Talk story about the Ford Motor Company plant in Northville, Michigan, which Ford had closed, supposedly for good, late last year. On St. Patrick's Day this year, Ford announced the reopening of the...
View ArticleThe Joyce
Talk story about the Joyce, a 474-seat dance theatre which opened last week with a program of short works by several companies that will use it. The medium-sized dance facility occupies the brick shell...
View ArticleYves Montand
Talk story about an interview with Yves Montand, film star, political activist, and singer. He paid a brief visit to New York last week to check on arrangements for his forthcoming one-man show at the...
View ArticleHonors
Talk story about a weekend trip to Washington for the Kennedy Center Honors, a movable feast of parties, testimonials and live entertainment which celebrates the careers of five distinguished Americans...
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Talk-Comment about watching preparations at the Metropolitan Museum for the exhibition entitled "The Vatican Collections: The Papacy and Art". This is an assortment of 237 sculptures, paintings,...
View ArticleConversation
Talk story about "Jukebox Saturday Night," a nostalgic look at pop music of the thirties and forties, which WNET taped before 750 invited guests. It will be telecast in March. Writer went to the Grand...
View ArticleFestival
Talk story about this year's Bayreuth Festival in Germany, at the Festspielhaus, the theatre that Richard Wagner built for the performance of his operatic works. It was the premiere of a...
View ArticleCentennial
Talk story about the Metropolitan Opera, which opened its centennial season on Monday night with an unprecedented amount of money in the bank ($23 million) and a 5-hour production of Hector Berlioz's...
View ArticlePeter Brook
Talk story about Peter Brook's version of Bizet's "Carmen," done as a musical drama called "La Tragedie de Carmen" at the Vivian Beaumont. Choruses and crowd scenes have been dropped, the cast has been...
View ArticleGala
Talk story about Channel 13's "Gala of Stars," the 1984 Salute to public television from the world of classical and popular entertainment. It was taped"live"at Radio City Music Hall and will be...
View ArticleTracks
“Recording a stage show is essentially an adaptive process,” said Thomas Z. Shepard, looking up at us from a multilevered RCA console, where he was working on the final mix of the new Stephen...
View ArticleReporting
Talk story about National Public Radio's "Morning Edition," a weekday two-hour news show anchored by Bob Edwards, 37, and produced by Jay Kernis, who also tapes cultural interviews for the show. The...
View ArticleSmall Mischief
Talk story about the exhibit at the Morgan Library called "Small Mischief: Evil Doings and Odd Disasters in Early Children's Books." Writer spoke to Gerald Gottlieb, the curator of Early Children's...
View ArticleRelentless and Absolute
Talk story about gridlock. Writer accompanied Samuel Schwartz, the city's deputy transport commissioner, for traffic operations, on his morning rounds on Dec. 14, to observe how the city had mobilized...
View ArticleMystifier
Talk story about an Henri Rousseau retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. Writer talked to Carolyn Lanchner, a curator in the museum's department of painting and sculpture, and one of the...
View ArticleLore
Talk story about a conference on John F. Kennedy that took place at Hofstra University. It was attended by historians anf former Kennedy staff members, who spent 3 days discussing the late president's...
View ArticleUneven Collection
Talk story about Sotheby's auction of 56 well-publicized paintings&drawings-most of them Impressionist-from the estate of the late Florence Gould, who was the daughter-in-law of Jay Gould, one of...
View ArticleWaltzing
Talk story about the Philharmonic Ball at the Grand Promenade of Avery Fisher Hall, an event that was held to raise funds for the orchestra. It took the form of an elaborate Viennese evening (at $500...
View ArticleSellars at Purchase
Talk story about a visit to SUNY Purchase in Westchester to see a rehearsal of Peter Sellars' production of Handel's "Guilio Cesare in Egitto." Sellars is the 27 yr. old director of the American...
View ArticleThe Tango
Talk story about 3 dance teams from the musical revue "Tango Argentino." The show is roughly historical, tracing the dance from the Buenos Aires slums of the 1880s to 20th-century ballrooms. The format...
View ArticleSecurity
Talk story about the security arrangements for the United Nations' anniversary. Over 50 motorcades shuttled between hotels, missions, and the U.N. without incident, producing only a few traffic jams...
View ArticleThe Mapleson Cylinders
Talk story about turn-of-the-century recordings of the Metropolitan Opera, made on an Edison Home Phongraph by the Met's company librarian, Lionel Mapleson. He began his work on Jan. 16, 1901 &...
View ArticleGeorge Rose
Talk story about actor George Rose, now appearing in "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," a musical version of Charles Dickens' unfinished novel... It is this play-within-a-play that provides the framework...
View ArticleBoulez
Talk story about Pierre Boulez. The New York Philharmonic announces a series of concerts and conversations that will take place early this month at Avery Fisher Hall and several other places to...
View ArticleRestoration
The writer visited Lawrence Goldman, who is the vice-president supervising the 7-month renovation of Carnegie Hall. James Stewart Polshek, the architect who provided a master plan for the project, said...
View ArticleAquarium News
Talk story about visit to New York Aquarium, which raises blue lobsters, and has two thousand-pound beluga whales, Winston and Natasha. They're working on plans for Sea Cliffs --a big new outdoor...
View ArticleHugues Cuenod
A talk story about Hugues Cuenod, 84, the distinguished Swiss tenor... "If you sing a phrase as you would speak it, the music will attach itself naturally to the words," said Cuenod. He is making his...
View ArticleAlice Tully
Talk story about Alice Tully, 85, who financed Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. Tells how she recently celebrated her birthday. Her role in the arts is a unique one, because she combines the skills...
View ArticleCharles Trenet
Talk story about the French singer and songwriter Charles Trenet, who recently gave a concert at Avery Fisher Hall. At 74, M. Trenet has again become a French institution. During the '30's and '40's he...
View ArticleSimon Rattle
Talk story about Simon Rattle, a 33 year-old Englishman who was passing through town on his way from California, where he had been a guest conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, to England, where...
View ArticleLeonie Rysanek
Talk story about Leonie Rysanek. Writer explains a major operatic career usually lasts about 25 years, but one of the remarkable exceptions is Leonie Rysanek, who was recently in town to sign 2...
View ArticleSheep Shooting
Talk story about a video shoot of 12 sheep on the Brooklyn Bridge. The sheep, Karen Goldman explains, are to be photographed walking along the bridge footpath for a large-scale music-and-performance...
View ArticleLETTER FROM TRIESTE
On the first Sunday in Sept., a ceremony took place in the gymnasium of the Scuola Elementare Morpurgo-a private Jewish elementary school in Trieste, which resurrected for most of those present vivid...
View ArticleJukebox Saturday Night
Talk story about attending a rehearsal of "Jukebox Saturday Night II", a musical salute to the 1940s & 1950s, which will be presented as a public television special next winter. At a dress...
View ArticleNovik and LaGuardia
Talk Story about Morris Niovik, an 86 year old retired radio executive, who was Mayor LaGuardia's director of communications from 1938-45, & who continued to produce a weekly radio show with him...
View ArticleBirds
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View ArticleJanacek
Talk story about a visit with the Czech pianist Rudolf Firkusny, on the occasion of the first Metropolitan Opera production of "Kata Kabonova," by Leos Janacek. In his West Side apartment, Mr. Firkusny...
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