Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wider Spectrum. Michael Dann, CBS's senior V.P. for programming, concedes that "the true excitement must come from specials." This year NBC will offer Roberto Rossellini's impressions of Sicily, an original drama starring Paul Scofield, and shows headlined by Brigitte Bardot and Elvis Presley. CBS promises a study of the Galapagos Islands narrated by Britain's Prince Philip, a Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and another colloquy with Waterfront Philosopher Eric Hoffer. ABC will screen about 45 hours of the sum mer Olympics from Mexico, as well as a Truman...
...first time, Horowitz will be able to sit down in his Manhattan town house and watch a music program that meets his exacting standards. A CBS special next Sunday (9 p.m., E.D.T.) will present a unique, simple and dramatic TV experience: 50 uninterrupted minutes of a virtuoso instrumental recital. There will be no portentous documentary script, no dizzying camera angles, no glamorized settings-just an unadorned closeup of a great performer at work. The performer: Vladimir Horowitz. Oddly enough, this is one time when Horowitz will have to forgo Bonanza; that's his NBC competitor Sunday night...
...Spaghetti. Horowitz was persuaded to do the program by an old friend, New York Times Critic-at-Large Howard Taubman, who acted as executive producer. Taubman argued that a TV recital would be a good way for Horowitz to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his U.S. debut. It would also be an ideal chance to make up for the infrequency of his public appearances in recent years...
...considered out of key ("No spaghetti"); CBS obliged, signed General Telephone & Electronics Corp. Although Horowitz accepted the ground rule that no piece should last longer than ten minutes, he stuck by his determination "not to play down to the public, but not to be too esoteric either." His program is a shrewd sampling of nine works from his recent recitals, including the noble pathos of Chopin's Polonaise in F-Sharp Minor, the lapidary classicism of two Scarlatti sonatas, and the flashy fireworks of his own Variations on a Gypsy Song from Bizet's "Carmen...
Talcum for Creaks. Horowitz's stiffest stipulation, however, was that he be allowed a dry run of the program before committing himself to go through with it. CBS, whose executives considered the show such a top secret that they referred to it only as "Project X," dispatched carpenters to Carnegie Hall to shore up the aging stage. Talcum powder was sprinkled between the boards to eliminate creaks caused by the movement of cameras. TV crewmen were provided with velvet slippers. Producer-Director Roger Englander boned up on scores so that camera angles could be synchronized with changes...