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Finally, there's the Play of Daniel, the twelfth-century, semi-secular, demi-liturgical Christmas drama from Beauvais. Noah Greenberg has recorded his recent and acclaimed performance at the Cloisters. Russell Oberlin is a soloist (Decca...
...fashion artist. One day at Central Park zoo, a fellow student drew an animal with a moving expression of fear that in an instant turned Ruth Gikow from aspiring commercial artist to aspiring fine artist. The new goal was elusive. She turned from social realism to semi-abstractionism, but she still felt restive. "It seemed as if everything I was doing was a façade, too decorative and too much on the surface. I wanted to get underneath things, to be more involved with individuals, and to get away from facelessness...
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Tonight's semi-documentary dramatization concerns the counterfeiting of popular records...
MARIA CALLAS, 38, has been in semi-retirement for three years, but her fans hope that she may emerge from it. Only last year she was welcomed back to La Scala in an emotion-laden performance of Donizetti's Polinto. Recently she has had cordial correspondence with the Met's Director Rudolph Bing, who canceled her contract three years ago but who now would gladly take her back. How much of her original accuracy, agility and control Callas retains is uncertain; and the Callas voice, even in its finest days, was never the equal of Sutherland...
...caught in the rain, that sly love god of synthetic playwrights. At the apartment she shares with her brother, they get out of their wet things and into some loose dialogue. Out go the lights, but he, it seems, has scruples about "beginners." Back come the lights on the semi-robed twosome, in barges the boy friend, marriage-bent, out springs the half-believable alibi that he is Eileen's brother, up pops the real brother...