Friday, Jun. 14, 1968
TELEVISION
Friday, June 14
HERE'S DICK CAVETT (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* A digest of Dick Cavett's weekday talk show. Guests include Dionne Warwick and Groucho Marx.
U.S. OPEN GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Highlights of the first two rounds from Oak Hill Country Club, Rochester, N.Y. Live coverage of the last six holes of the third round tomorrow, 4-5:30 p.m. Final round Sunday, 4-6 p.m
THE ART GAME (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). NBC News explores the exciting, but expensive sport of art collecting. J. Paul Getty, one of the richest and most successful of all collectors, tells how the game is won--while Texas Oilman Algur Meadows, victim of one of the greatest art frauds in history, explains how easy it is to lose. Correspondents Edwin Newman and Aline Saarinen report from art centers in the U.S. and abroad.
Sunday, June 16
SOCCER (CBS, 3-5 p.m.). The Washington Whips v. the Baltimore Bays at Baltimore.
ANIMAL KINGDOM (NBC, 6:30-7 p.m.). "The Great Migration." East Africa's Serengeti Plains are the scene of yet another documentary in the first of a series of adventures. Narrator Bill Burrud starts off with a look at the annual migration of vast numbers of animals.
Tuesday, June 18
CBS REPORTS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Business of Religion." CBS Correspondent Charles Kuralt reports on the wealth of American churches enhanced by real estate holdings valued at $79.5 billion and by income from such varied sources as restaurants and a girdle factory. Religious leaders comment on the controversy about whether these holdings should be subject to disclosure and taxation.
MUSIC
This summer the U.S. will fairly explode with the sound of music--from jazz to Bach fugues and Verdi operas There will be no fewer than four major new festivals, and the old favorites will brim with solid programs and topnotch artists.
BLOSSOM MUSIC CENTER, twelve miles north of Akron, is where the Cleveland Orchestra makes its new $6,500,000 summer home. Situated on a wooded bluff overlooking the Cuyahoga River, the 4,600-seat festival pavilion opens July 19 with Beethoven's The Consecration of the House Overture and Ninth Symphony led by Music Director George Szell. Guest Conductors William Steinberg, Charles Munch and Karel Anc,erl, Pianists Van Cliburn, Byron Janis and Vladimir Ashkenazy, and Tenor Jon Vickers will appear at the weekly Friday-Saturday-Sunday concerts. Other highlights: performances by the New York City Ballet, a pop series including Sitarist Ravi Shankar, Folk Singers Judy Collins and Arlo Guthrie. Trumpeter Louis Armstrong will close the festivities on Labor Day.
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY MUSIC FESTIVAL, Ambler, Pa. During a six-week festival of music and dance, the emphasis will he on chamber music, solo recitals, and the smaller-scale symphonic works of the masters--from Beethoven to Bartok performed by such artists as the ubiquitous Van Cliburn, Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Tenor Richard Tucker, Cellist Leonard Rose, Clarinetist Benny Goodman, and Anshel Brusilow's Chamber Symphony of Philadelphia. The Pennsylvania Ballet will take over the Greek-style amphitheater on four consecutive Thursdays beginning June 27. Ella Fitzgerald (July 12, 13) and Duke Ellington (July 25) will add a touch of jazz.
GARDEN STATE ARTS CENTER, Telegraph Hill Park, Holmdel, N.J., features a 5,000-seat amphitheater designed by Architect Edward Durell Stone. Inauguration day, June 13, will offer the Philadelphia Orchestra and Van Cliburn. Later, visitors will hear London's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, New Jersey's own symphony, plus such popular entertainers as Peter, Paul and Mary, and Andy Williams with Peter Nero. Man of La Mancha will play for a week starting Aug. 12, and the City Center Joffrey Ballet will end the season from Aug. 21 to Aug. 31.
WATERLOO VILLAGE, N.J., in the Allamuchy Mountains just an hour's drive from Manhattan, is a restored pre-Revolutionary hamlet (once known as Andover Forge) where an 18th century gristmill still operates and the only vehicles permitted on the streets are horse-drawn carriages. Come June 29, the New Jersey Symphony will take up summer residence in a 2,000-seat tent theater. First program offers Aaron Copland's A Lincoln Portrait, which will be narrated by Marian Anderson, and Duo-Pianists Gold and Fizdale, Cellist Janos Starker and Van Cliburn, of course, will appear during ten weeks of musicmaking.
LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL '68, in Manhattan, leads other urban centers in summer activities. The Rome Opera will be on hand from June 22 to July 6 with productions of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, Rossini's Otello and Verdi's I Due Foscari. From June 27 to July 17 the attractions will be Leonard Bernstein, Andre Previn and Erich Leinsdorf leading the New York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh and Boston symphonies in works commissioned over the past 25 years by the Koussevitzky Foundation, including a world premiere of a Concerto for Doublebass and Orchestra by Gunther Schuller. Daniel Barenboim and his English Chamber Orchestra take over Philharmonic Hall on July 5 for four concerts, while the Met is home to the American Ballet Theater from July 9 to July 28. The August program is scheduled for a Mozart-Haydn festival featuring Pianists Lorin Hollander and Claude Frank, the Juilliard Quartet, Conductor Lukas Foss, among others.
METROPOLITAN OPERA, in New York City parks. Starting June 11, the Met presents twelve free performances of Bizet's Carmen, Gounod's Faust and Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila in the parks of the city's five boroughs. Casts include Tenor Franco Corelli, Mezzos Rosalind Elias and Regina Resnik, Bassos Jerome Hines and Giorgio Tozzi.
CARAMOOR FESTIVAL, Katonah, N.Y. The elegant Venetian Theater will resound to an all-Russian program by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Julius Rudel's baton on June 16. Monteverdi's Coronation of Poppaea is offered June 22 and 28. Sunday afternoon chamber works include a "Tribute to Benjamin Britten" on the final day, July 7.
SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Beginning June 25 with a "preseason" melange of rock, folk and jazz. Saratoga presents the New York City Ballet, Eugene Ormandy's Philadelphia Orchestra, and star soloists in conventional but first-rate music fare. Until Aug. 25.
NEWPORT JAZZ AND FOLK FESTIVALS, Newport, R.I. Dionne Warwick, Wes Montgomery and Hugh Masekela, among others, will be on hand July 4-7. Janis Ian, Tim Buckley, Taj Mahal, Pete Seeger, Judy Collins and Arlo Guthrie will do the honors in the folk-and country-music department, July 23-28.
TANGLEWOOD, Lenox, Mass. The Boston Symphony, under the direction of Erich Leinsdorf, opens its eight-week season on July 5 with an all-Mozart program and ends on Aug. 25 with an evening of Brahms.
THIRD ANNUAL FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL, Daytona Beach, Fla., features the London Symphony, directed by Andre Previn and guests, starting July 18. A "real blockbuster" is promised for the final concert on Aug. 11, when the orchestra will number 200 players to do justice to Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.
MEADOW BROOK MUSIC FESTIVAL, Rochester, Mich., celebrates its fifth season with eight weeks of varied symphonic programs and name soloists, including two rare appearances by Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky (Aug. 17-18). Orchestra-in-residence is the Detroit Symphony under Sixten Ehrling. The American Ballet Theater dances for a week starting July 30.
STRATFORD FESTIVAL, Stratford, Ont., Canada. On July 7, Duke Ellington performs sacred music; on Aug. 25, New York Pro Musica performs Spanish court music.
RAVINIA FESTIVAL, Chicago, the summer abode of the city's symphony, is supervised by Conductor Seiji Ozawa. The long season (June 27 through Sept. 15) is made up of orchestral and chamber concerts, a short visit by the New York City Ballet, Daniel Barenboim's English Chamber Orchestra, a jazz-folk program and a wide selection of guest artists, including Pianists Alicia de Larrocha, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Leon Fleisher, Alexis Weissenberg and others of that caliber.
SANTA FE OPERA, N. Mex., was completely destroyed by fire last July. Rebuilt at a cost of $1,750,000, it is scheduled to reopen July 2 with Puccini's Madame Butterfly, followed by six other new productions, among them the U.S. premieres of Hans Werner Henze's The Bassarids (Aug. 7 and 9), conducted by the composer, and Arnold Schoenberg's Die Jakobsleiter (Aug. 14 and 16).
STANFORD SUMMER FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS, Stanford, Calif., features the City Center Jeffrey Ballet, Ravi Shankar, and more in six weeks of music, drama and dance, beginning June 25.
CINEMA
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Director Stanley Kubrick's stunning film, which defines man's past and describes his future, uses some of the most fantastic visual effects in the history of motion pictures.
LES CARABINIERS. This artful and not altogether somber discourse on the brutalizing effects of war is quite possibly Director Jean-Luc Godard's best film since Breathless.
THE FIFTH HORSEMAN IS FEAR. A stark symbolic tale of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia is raised to a high level of creative cinema by the measured skill of Writer-Director Zbynek Brynych.
THE ODD COUPLE. An alimony-poor sportswriter (Walter Matthau) and his divorce-bound buddy (Jack Lemmon) are at each other's throats again in an almost literal replay of Neil Simon's Broadway hit.
BELLE DE JOUR. Luis Bunuel, the aging Spanish director, fills this baroque piece of pornography about the obsessive fantasies of a young wife (Catherine Deneuve) with some of his most elegant fetishist jokes and anticlerical broadsides.
BOOKS
Best Reading
RED SKY AT MORNING, by Richard Bradford. The theme is familiar--an adolescent's search for manhood--but the telling, in this first novel, is tender and humorous.
BLACK SNOW, by Mikhail Bulgakov. A thinly disguised satire aimed at Method-Master Konstantin Stanislavsky by an author whose works have only recently been released posthumously by Soviet censors.
FORBIDDEN COLORS, by Yukio Mishima. A diabolic story of a staggeringly handsome young homosexual who systematically attracts and frustrates women, cunningly told by an author who is Japan's answer to Papa-san Hemingway.
KING, QUEEN, KNAVE, by Vladimir Nabokov. The eternal love triangle gets some witty twists in this first English-language edition of a novel written in 1928, when the prose master was a 28-year-old emigre living in Berlin.
LYTTON STRACHEY, by Michael Holroyd. The madly eccentric life and odd times of the author of Eminent Victorians, overwhelmingly documented in 1,229 improbably fascinating pages.
COUPLES, by John Updike. One of America's most stylish novelists turns his lyric imagination loose on adultery and the search for salvation in a richly plotted story set in a typical New England small town.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Couples, Updike (1 last week)
2. Airport, Hailey (2)
3. Myra Breckinridge, Vidal (3)
4. Topaz, Uris (5)
5. Testimony of Two Men, Caldwell (8)
6. Vanished, Knebel (6)
7. The Confessions of Nat Turner, Styron (9)
8. The Triumph, Galbraith (7)
9. Christy, Marshall (10)
10. The Tower of Babel, West (4)
NONFICTION
1. The Naked Ape, Morris (1)
2. Between Parent and Child, Ginott (2)
3. The Right People, Birmingham (5)
4. The French Chef Cookbook, Child (10)
5. The Double Helix, Watson (6)
6. Our Crowd, Birmingham (4)
7. Iberia, Michener (3)
8. Nicholas and Alexandra, Massie (8)
9. Gipsy Moth Circles the World, Chichester (7)
10. The Way Things Work: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Technology
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