Orchestral
TELEVISION
Friday, July 19
P.G.A. CHAMPIONSHIP (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.)* Taped highlights of the second round of play from Pecan Valley Country Club, San Antonio. Live coverage of third round on Saturday, 6-7:30 p.m.; final round Sunday, 5-7 p.m.
WHAT'S HAPPENING TO AMERICA? (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). NBC News Correspondent Edwin Newman, New York City Mayor John Lindsay and Frank Mankiewicz, press secretary to the late Senator Kennedy, mull over what everyone wants to know. Second in a four-part series.
Tuesday, July 23
OF BLACK AMERICA (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Portrait in Black," fourth in a seven-part series, sums up the opinions of 1,500 blacks and whites questioned at length by CBS News about problems confronting black America.
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NET JOURNAL. "Plumes for My Rich Aunt." British Journalist Alan Whicker describes the world of Paris haute couture as glamorized by models "who can wear furs in August, swimsuits in December . . . and look snooty and deadpan even with sand in their shoes" in this bizarre peek at the citadel of high fashion. Interviews with Designers Gerard Picard and Pierre Balmain.
NET FESTIVAL. "Carl Sandburg Remembered" includes eulogies by President Johnson and Poets Archibald MacLeish and Mark Van Doren and recordings by the late great poet himself.
THEATER
Many of the nation's leading repertory groups offer theatrical diversion throughout the summer.
THEATER COMPANY OF BOSTON, University of Rhode Island, Kingston. Eugene Ionesco's Exit the King, an absurd drama about death, July 18-21 and July 25-28; Arthur Miller's autobiographical After the Fall, Aug. 1-4 and 8-11; a play by Guenter Grass, The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising, Aug. 15-18 and 22-25.
MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER, Spring Green, Wis., offers Friedrich von Schiller's Mary Stuart, Jean Giraudoux's Amphitryon 38, and Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, June 22-July 28.
A CONTEMPORARY THEATER, Seattle, presents The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Peter Shaffer's spectacle about Pizarro, June 19-July 6, and James Goldman's The Lion in Winter, a fantasy about the domestic life of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, July 7-27.
AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATER, San Francisco, will perform Hamlet, A Streetcar Named Desire, Edward Albee's Tiny Alice, Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill, Tartuffe and The Misanthrope by Moliere throughout the summer. Your Own Thing, Donald Driver's rock musical, plays through August.
MINNESOTA THEATER COMPANY, Minneapolis. The three opening productions, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, John Arden's study of political dissent, Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, and The Master Builder, Henrik Ibsen's treatise on creative genius, rotate through August. Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui opens Aug. 6, and Merton of the Movies, by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly, joins the repertory Sept. 24.
RECORDS Orchestral BENNETT: SYMPHONY NO. 1 (RCA Victor). One persistent problem of much contemporary music is that composers like Richard Rodney Bennett cannot resist the urgent tones of a ringing bell. Listeners periodically find themselves dashing to answer what they think is the telephone. Aside from such minor inconveniences, Bennett-style music never fails to please those who like the stresses and strains of abstract musical ideas. Bennett, 32, is a pro who became England's ranking contemporary composer with his operas. His First Symphony, with Igor Buketoff leading the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, will only enhance that reputation.
VARESE: AMERIQUES; MILHAUD: L'HOMME ET SON DESIR; HONEGGER: PACIFIC 231 (Vanguard Everyman). All three of these immensely influential French composers were the minstrels of the anxiety age, never granting the possibility of unthreatened peace in their music. Varese's Ameriques is a massive web of wild and violent sounds made by such "instruments" as a whip and an air-raid siren. Milhaud's piece is an equally complex evocation of the restless ghosts in a Brazilian jungle, while a locomotive inspired Honegger to write his frantically rushing Pacific 231. The Utah Symphony Orchestra under Maurice Abravanel is undaunted by the exhausting discontent.
MESSIAEN: TURANGALILA SYMPHONY; TAKEMITSU: NOVEMBER STEPS (RCA Victor; 2 LPs). The two works in this album will strike most ears as fascinating, if mysterious. They are full of unexpected twists and turns, jolting whistles and tinkles, and disconcerting outer-space sound effects. Listeners with a scholarly bent will devour the program notes by Composers Messiaen and Takemitsu, both of whom earnestly attempted to explain their efforts. Messiaen's long, fairly verbose essay turns to images of statues and flowers to describe its themes, while Takemitsu lists eleven brief points. No. 6: "It has been demonstrated that dolphins communicate not with their gibbering voices but with the varied intervals of silence between the sounds they emit--a provocative discovery." Conductor Seiji Ozawa and his Toronto Symphony sound as if they thoroughly understand the arcane observation.
ClNEMA
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Director Stanley Kubrick deploys all the dazzling devices of the space age in this cosmic parable of the history and future of man.
INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. John Osborne's unsparing portrait of a 39-year-old London solicitor who realizes abruptly that his life is "irredeemably mediocre" makes an impressive transition to the screen, with Actor Nicol Williamson giving acrid life to the aloes of Osborne's lines.
THE BRIDE WORE BLACK. Franc,ois Truffaut pays a loving and witty tribute to Alfred Hitchcock as he spins the sardonic story of a widow (Jeanne Moreau) bent on wreaking bloody vengeance on her husband's killers.
PETULIA. A thick-skinned doctor (George C. Scott) and a flipped-out wife (Julie Christie) make an odd pair of lovers in Director Richard Lester's vicious portrait of a decidedly modern romance.
ROSEMARY'S BABY. Writer-Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water, Repulsion) has made a movie adaptation of Ira Levin's bestseller about a devilish pregnancy with both dialogue and chills virtually intact. Mia Farrow's performance as the beleaguered wife adds an extra dimension of shuddery reality.
BOOKS
Best Reading
THE FRENCH, by Franc,ois Nourissier. THE AMERICAN CHALLENGE, by J.J. Servan-Schreiber. Beneath the chic of their French homeland, both authors discover a miasma of decaying faiths, cynicism and outmoded institutions.
INTELLECTUAL ORIGINS OF AMERICAN RADICALISM, by Staughton Lynd. A handbook for the armchair revolutionary by one of the leading scholars of the New Left.
THE UNIVERSAL BASEBALL ASSOCIATION, INC., J. HENRY WAUGH, PROP., by Robert Coover. A 56-year-old accountant loses himself in the illusion that the universe is an elaborate baseball game and goes down swinging in the author's second novel about the dangers of fanaticism.
DARK AS THE GRAVE WHEREIN MY FRIEND IS LAID, by Malcolm Lowry. Out of the fragments of the unfinished novels, stories and poems of the late tormented writer comes a Dantean pilgrimage of the spirit that closely parallels Lowry's own life.
ENDERBY, by Anthony Burgess. In this retouching of an earlier portrait of the artist as a middle-aged gasbag, the gifted English novelist combines the elements of entertainment and enlightenment with uncommon artistry.
TRUE GRIT, by Charles Portis. An uproarious period piece about a 14-year-old girl who turns the wild frontier topsy-turvy while avenging the murder of her pa.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Airport, Hailey (1 last week)
2. Couples, Updike (2)
3. Myro Breckinridge, Vidal (3)
4. Testimony of Two Men, Caldwell (4)
5. Topaz, Uris (5)
6. Vanished, Knebel (6)
7. Red Sky at Morning, Bradford (9)
8. The Confessions of Nat Turner, Styron (7)
9. The Tower of Babel, West (10)
10. Christy, Marshall (8)
NONFICTION
1. The Money Game, 'Adam Smith' (2)
2. Iberia, Michener (1)
3. Or I'll Dress You in Mourning, Collins and Lapierre (5)
4. Between Parent and Child, Ginott (3)
5. The Right People, Birmingham (6)
6. The Naked Ape, Morris (4)
7. The Rich and the Super-Rich, Lundberg (8)
8. The French Chef Cookbook, Child (9)
9. The Center, Alsop (7)
10. The Doctor's Quick Weight Loss Diet, Stillman and Baker
* All times E.D.T.
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