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#6000: OMNIBUS:135TH STREET
Order1953-03-29, WCBS, 30 min.
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
1955-12-04, WNBC, min.
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.
1956-10-07, WNBC, 15 min.
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.
1957-03-31, WNBC, min.
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.
1958-01-14, NBC, min.
This Special OMNIBUS presentation, "THE SUBURBAN REVIEW" features Bert Lahr, Pat Stanley, and Mike Nichols and Elaine May. Through comedy sketches, songs and dances we witness suburban living in the U.S. of the 1920's with Suburbia as it exists today in 1958.
1958-03-23, WNBC, 65 min.
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.
1962-09-23, PBS, 120 min.
- Leonard Bernstein
- Robert Merrill
- Richard Tucker
- Shirley Verrett
- Eileen Farrell
- Alistair Cooke
- Adele Addison
- Donald Bell
- Jon Vickers
- Abraham Kaplan
- Hugh Ross
- Lucine Amara
- Charles Bressler
- Jennie Tourel
- Lili Chookasian
- Ezio Flagello
- Columbus Boychoir
- Juilliard Chorus
- Schola Cantorum
- George London
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.
1962-09-23, PBS, 00 min.
- Leonard Bernstein
- Robert Merrill
- Richard Tucker
- Shirley Verrett
- Eileen Farrell
- Alistair Cooke
- Adele Addison
- Donald Bell
- Jon Vickers
- Abraham Kaplan
- Hugh Ross
This was the first televised concert from Lincoln Center in New York City. Conducted by Abraham Kaplan and Hugh Ross. Host: Alistair Cooke.
1972-11-14, NBC, 60 min.
Alistair Cooke's "Personal History" of the United States (Part 1 of a thirteen part series). In this episode, Cooke covers more than 100 years from maiden explorations into America's wilderness to the first English colonization. Narrated by Alistair Cooke.#6008: AMERICA: HOME FROM HOME
Order1972-11-28, NBC, 60 min.
Alistair Cooke's "Personal History" of the United States (Part 2 of a thirteen part series). In this episode, Cooke covers Colonial America in the 17th and 18th centuries. This episode begins in Jamestown Virginia, where English adventurers carved the first permanent settlement out of a disease-ridden marshland in 1607. Ben Franklin among others are profiled. Narrated by Alistair Cooke.1976-07-04, CBS, 930 min.
- Walter Cronkite
- Danny Kaye
- Charles Kuralt
- Hank Aaron
- Johnny Cash
- Beverly Sills
- Isaac Stern
- Valerie Harper
- Arthur Fiedler
- Margaret Mead
- Alistair Cooke
- Boston Pops Orchestra
- Hughes Rudd
- Millicent Fenwick
- Daniel Boorstin
- Martin Marty
- Sylvia Chase
Walter Cronkite is the anchorman for CBS's daylong bicentennial coverage "our most extensive of any single day since man landed on the moon in 1969," he says. Broadcast from 7:30am to 11:00pm (15 & 1/2 hours) including live remotes from more than 40 locales across the US, the program interweaves special features..."Anniversary Reflections" on life in America are offered by (among others) Hank Aaron, historian Daniel Boorstin, theologian Martin Marty, Margaret Mead, Isaac Stern, and Beverly Sills; "Anniversary Almanac" has Hughes Rudd and Sylvia Chase exchanging questions and answers and some trivia...on American history; Charles Kuralt's "On The Road" pieces for the "CBS Evening News" are repeated, with stops including Alabama, Arkansas. Bicentennial observances covered on CBS TV include: THE PRESIDENTIAL ITINERARY: Shortly after 9am President Gerald Ford will participate in ceremonies at Valley Forge where five Conestoga wagon trains are encamped. Between 10and 11 A.M. President Ford will deliver a speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia and sometime after 1:30 P.M., review Operation Sail in New York. RELIGIOUS SERVICES: From 8 to 9 A.M. there will be coverage of services throughout the Nation...included are live telecasts of interfaith ceremonies in New York City, Miami and Philadelphia, and taped coverage of a sunrise service at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. NAVAL SHOWS: Operation Sail will be covered beginning at 11 A.M. when hundreds of U.S. and foreign vessels from the 33 foot sloop White Dolphin to the 1039 foot carrier USS Forrestal - will make their way up New York's Hudson River. San Francisco Bay is the scene for the Silver Eagle Regatta, featuring some 1500 sailing craft. The event is covered intermittently thought out the day. PARADES: Atlanta's 16th annual "Salute to America" parade will have a Brazilian samba group, bagpipers, Irish dancers and Big Bird from "Sesame Street." Philadelphia's parade is big on bancs-a total of 50, one from each state. There will also be a 110 -foot float depicting scenes from early American history. MUSIC: A day filled with music from country to classical, including a New Orleans jazz concert saluting Louis Armstrong, who would have been 76 this day, and a country-music concert from Nashville's Opryland. In the evening, Morton Gould will conduct the American Symphony Orchestra in his "American ballads"; and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir will sing patriotic songs from the mall in Washington, D.C. Between 9 and 10 P.M. Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Esplanade Orchestra will perform Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture"; and the St. Louis Symphony will offer music by John Philip Sousa and Stephen Foster. FIREWORKS: Between 7 and 8 P.M., Alistair Cooke will be the host for a BBC show featuring a fireworks exhibition over the Thames River. Live coverage also from New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis and Washington D.C. VIKING LANDING: At approximately 10 P.M., Viking 1 is scheduled to touch down on Mars and begin sending pictures back to Earth. Reports on the mission. OTHER EVENTS: From St. Louis daylong series of music and dance programs, and air and water shows. Coverage will be interspersed throughout the day. Other celebrations covered intermittently will include the Festival of American Folklife in Washington D.C. ; and festivals in New York City and Miami. There will also be an reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg scheduled between 2 and 3 P.M. Also, celebrations, Western style...a rodeo in Greeley Colorado. NOTE: This entire broadcast will be transferred from the original 1/4" master reel to reel tapes (15 & 1/2 hours) to 12 CD discs or to 3 DVD (sound track only) discs allowing for greater continuous listening continuity.