Presented on "OMNIBUS." The third part of this Omnibus presentation is complete. An un-staged George Gershwin one-act opera with an all-Negro cast. Composed by Gershwin in 1922 when he was 23. It's primitive in construction and content, although "The Blue Monday Blues" and some other early Gershwin excursions into the Jazz idiom stand out.  
  
Host for Ominbus series, Alistair Cooke

Directed by Seymour Robbie.  
De Sylva, B.G. -  Librettist
Starring Jimmy Rushing                    

Investigating what separates jazz music from all other forms of music. 

Guest: Leonard Berstein.            

November 9th, 1952-April April 16th, 1961. (NBC). 

Hosted by Alistair Cooke, this series presented everything from dramas to musicals to documentaries. SEARCH PROGRAM TITLE FOR COMPLETE DETAILS.

Leonard Bernstein: The art of conducting an orchestra. The importance of the conductor.    

Host: Alistair Cooke. 

November 9th, 1952-April April 16th, 1961. (NBC). 

Hosted by Alistair Cooke, this series presented everything from dramas to musicals to documentaries. SEARCH PROGRAM TITLE FOR COMPLETE DETAILS.

American Musical Comedy. 

The history of American Musical Comedy over the last 100 years.

Note: Final fifteen minutes of the broadcast. 

Guest: Leonard Bernstein.

Host: Alistair Cooke.     

Excerpt.               

November 9th, 1952-April April 16th, 1961. (NBC). 

Hosted by Alistair Cooke, this series presented everything from dramas to musicals to documentaries. SEARCH PROGRAM TITLE FOR COMPLETE DETAILS.

Leonard Berstein analyzes Bach's music and techniques with excerpt from "The St. Matthew Passion" and other choral works.

Guest: Leonard Bernstein.

Host: Alistair Cooke.     

Excerpt: Open.                  

November 9th, 1952-April April 16th, 1961. (NBC). 

Hosted by Alistair Cooke, this series presented everything from dramas to musicals to documentaries. SEARCH PROGRAM TITLE FOR COMPLETE DETAILS.

"Leonard Bernstein looks at Opera" offers ninety minutes of operatic music direct from the stage at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Participating will be the  Metropolitan's singers and orchestra. 
Leonard Berstein's remarks are illustrated with excerpts, his translation of a scene, from Puccini's "La Boheme" is acted out, then the scene is sung in Italian. There will also be the "Liebestod" from Wagner's "Tristan," the "Credo," from Verdi's "Otello," and selections from "Rosenkavalier," "Carmen," "The Medium," Don Giovanni" and "Lucia." Musetta: Laurel Hurley. Mimi: Marcella Pobbe, Isoldr: Martha Moedl, Rodolpho; Frank Guarrera,




Host: Alistair Cooke. 

  March 26, 1959 - May 7, 1959

Bill Hayes and Florence Henderson co host this live half-hour  anthology series. Most presentations were musicals. 

 In this premiere broadcast Jackie Cooper and Genevieve, in her first dramatic role,  star in "A NICE PLACE TO HIDE."
Story about an interesting relationship that forms slowly between two people who are looking for love. 

Songs:
"The Sunny Side of the Street" (Jackie Cooper & Genevieve)
"When I Fall in Love" (Genevieve)
"I'm Glad There Is You." (Jackie Cooper & Genevieve)

Included is a two minute Oldsmobile commercial. 

                                    

                March 9 - June 15, 1959 
A video taped 90 minute music series on New York television channel 13, WNTA, airing every Monday from 10:30pm to Midnight, hosted by Jazz expert Nat Hentoff. 

Tonight's broadcast, "A PORTRAIT OF DELLA REESE." She sings blues and gospel songs accompanied by the Meditation Singers and pianist, George Butcher. Also appearing are the Emmett Berry Five Jazz Group.            

January 22nd, 1955-November 21st, 1961 (ABC)

Country and Western music show hosted by Red Foley. It originated for most of its run from Springfield Missouri. Among the show's regulars were Smiley Burnette, Bobby Lord, Wanda Jackson, and Brenda Lee.

Tonight's guests include Eddy Arnold, Don Gibson, and June Carter. 

Red Foley is the host.               

This was the first televised concert from Lincoln Center in New York City. Conducted by Abraham Kaplan and Hugh Ross.  

Host: Alistair Cooke.             

This was the first televised concert from Lincoln Center in New York City. Conducted by Abraham Kaplan and Hugh Ross.  

Host: Alistair Cooke.     

Viewers across the country join first-nighters in New York City for an event of national significance; the opening of Lincoln Center for the performing arts. When completed, the center's five buildings will house the Metropolitan Opera, a repertory theater, a ballet company, a school of music and the New York Philharmonic.
Tonight from Philharmonic Hall, Leonard Bernstein conducts the dedicatory concert. Soloists:  Eileen Farrell, Richard Tucker, George London, Shirley Verrett-Carter, Lucine Amara, Charles Bressler, Jennie Tourel, Adele Addison, Lili Chookasian, Donald Bell, Jon Vickers, and Ezio Flagello. Choral groups: Schola Cantorum, Juilliard Chorus, Columbus Boychoir. 
During intermission, host Alistair Cooke visits backstage. Robert Saudek produced the live two-hour program. Directors: Kirk Browning, Don Hewitt.

Highlights:

Gloria from "Missa Solemnis"...Beethoven 
Connotations for Orchestra...Copland
"Serenade To Music"...Vaughan Williams 
Hymn from Symphony No. 8...Mahler 



Duplicate of 7303.     

A salute to American music from Nashville, Tennessee celebrating the opening of Opryland Amusement Park.           

A salute to American music from Nashville, Tennessee celebrating the opening of Opryland Amusement Park.    

Duplicate of 9054.                     

Special: George S. Kaufman's Pulitzer Prize winner is still a delight.



Carroll O'Connor and Cloris Leachman head the cast in this musical about a Presidential candidate no one can resist: his platform's based on silver linings and love.



George and Ira Gershwin wrote the songs.             

A television adaptation of George Gershwin's 1931 Pulitzer prize winning satirical Broadway musical about a Presidential candidate running on a platform of universal love. The close of this broadcast is only partially complete.             

Memorial to the gate of horn with Bob Gibson, Bob Comp, George Carlin, Shel Silverstein, and others. Lenny Bruce.