Word: program
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Joseph Gehot (1756-18??) was a Belgian-born composer and violinist who made his living fiddling at the City Concerts in Philadelphia. Strongly addicted to program music, he celebrated his departure for America when in his 30s by writing a twelve-part overture describing the voyage and including such detailed movement headings as "Going on board, and pleasure at recollecting the encouragement [the traveller] hopes to meet with in a land where merit is sure to gain reward." Gehot is represented in the series by his Quartetto in D Major, a pleasant if rather bland work with a folksy...
...autumn of 1954, and the U.S. was hard-crashing a life-or-death program: the development of a rocket that could bellow into space, span oceans and continents, plunge down through the atmosphere and deliver an H-bomb payload anywhere on the earth...
...Someone. Among the guests at that party was a trustee of Ithaca's Cornell University named Victor Emanuel. Emanuel was also board chairman of Avco Corp., which was already deeply interested in the U.S. ICBM program. He fell into conversation about the project's difficulties-particularly that of testing re-entry techniques in earthly laboratories. Said one of the group, pointing to a heavy-shouldered man: "I believe we have someone right here who can help...
...already in operation. By 1962 the North-west-Braniff-Northeast building will be up. So will Eero Saarinen's spectacular gull-like TWA terminal. Altogether, U.S. and foreign airlines-which once scorned Idlewild as too far from Manhattan-are now putting $150 million into the Terminal City building program, giving Idlewild a World's Fair look...
Spring Music Festival (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Reorganized under Director Alfredo Antonini, the CBS Symphony Orchestra gives its first concert in ten years. The program features John Browning (piano), Aaron Rosand (violin), John Se bastian (harmonica). A worthwhile series sponsored by Revlon, evidently trying to make up for a TV past that includes the big quizzes and this season's defunct Big Party...