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...Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, is a highly personal memorial to the Nazis' victims. Scored for bass-baritone, double chorus, orchestra and string quintet, the pace in all but one of the ten movements is slow to slower. To sustain interest within such a restrictive format, the score trades on subtlety rather than splash, deftly plays the wistful mewings of the string quintet against the dense harmonies of the orchestra, intertwines exquisite vocal patterns like a kaleidoscope turning in slow motion. Brilliantly performed, Requiem was distinctly modern but never abrasively atonal, a somber, moving prayer celebrating...
...gone off in search of adventure -and in the process become one of the best series on TV. Using hand-held cameras and available light, spotting sound technicians in the middle of a performing orchestra, spending time and money horrendously, the Telephone Hour has put together a unique format of musical documentary that does honor both to the music and to the documentary...
...Viet Nam. Frank Sinatra "dooby-dooby-doing" through Strangers in the Night. That combination would be pretty good radio fare in St. Louis or Atlanta. But to foreign listeners from Asadabad to Zamboanga, accustomed for years to more somber programming, the Voice of America's swinging new broadcasting format sounds almost as far out as a piccolo solo by Lyndon Johnson...
First with the Latest. The Voice grew up in the days when thousands of people in Occupied Europe would risk death to hear news broadcasts from Britain or America-and never got over its early success. The format was never basically changed. Voice programs came to have, says one observer, the "sound of measured senility," or, in Voice Director John Chancellor's kindlier description, "an institutional sound...
Whatever the sound was, it was not keeping pace with the competition of Radio Moscow and Radio Peking-not to mention the BBC and a score of new national stations. Shortly after he became director in July 1965, Chancellor decided to find a new format, and with the help of Richard Krolik, an executive of TIME-LIFE Broadcasting, devised the "new sound." With the wholehearted approval of Leonard Marks, director of the parent United States Information Agency, the Voice has now set out, in Chancellor's words, to be "vigorous, amusing, avant-garde-the first with the latest...