WGBH Programs For The Week

TUESDAY

5:00 VIENNA FESTIVAL, 1959. The International Festival of the Vienna Concert House Society. Soloist's Concert. Nathan Milstein, violinist, plays works of J. S. Bach. (Broadcasting Foundation of America).

6:25 SCIENCE REPORTER. A five-minute summary of news in science, presented for the layman.

6:30 LOUIS M. LYONS AND THE NEWS. Curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University.

6:45 ELLIOT NORTON REVIEWS. Reviews of current plays and talks with theater personalities. Mr. Norton is drama critic, Boston Daily Record and Sunday Advertiser.

7:00 STORIES AND SONGS--new and old.

7:30 THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC. Foreign Policy and Survival, Part I. Walter Millis, journalist and military historian, author of The Road to War and Arms and Man. (Fund for the Republic).

8:00 ANNA KARENINA. A serialized adaptation by H. Oldfield Box. (BEC) (End of Series).

8:30 SYMPOSIUM ON EVOLUTION, marking the centenary of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. Darwin Recalled, Bernard J. Boelen, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Duquesne University; Biology--Viruses and Evolution, Frederick C. Bawden, M.A.F.R.S., Rothamsted Experimental Station for botanical research, author.

9:30 THE LAST CITIZEN. The Changing Image, Parts I and II. A discussion of the public image of the Negro from the earliest slave period to the end of the Civil War, including a comparison between fact and myth.

10:30 LOUIS M. LYONS AND THE NEWS. (6:30 broadcast repeated).

10:45 REPORT FROM THE NETHERLANDS. (Broadcasting Foundation of America).

11:00 NEW ENGLAND NOTEBOOK. News of educational and cultural events throughout New England.

11:05 MUSIC I. A history of western music from Gregorian chant to the present time, with piano and recorded illustrations. The lectures were recorded at Harvard during Archibald T. Davison's last year as the James Edward Ditson Professor of Music.

WEDNESDAY

5:00 NEW RECORDINGS. An opportunity to review recent releases.

6:00 THE LAST PURITAN, by George Santayana. The complete work in a serialized reading by Bill Cavness.

6:30 LOUIS M. LYONS AND THE NEWS. Curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University.

6:45 BACKGROUNDS. Analysis of issues and events with Louis M. Lyons and guests.

7:00 EVERYBODY'S MOUNTAIN. The Dunbar Vocational High School, in Chicago.

7:30 PERFORMANCE. (Tuesday's WGBH-TV, Channel 2, broadcast repeated).

8:00 SNAPSHOTS OF INDIA'S CIVILIZATION. Rabindranath Tagore, a modern Indian short story writer. Talks by Professor Elmer H. Cutts, Chairman of the History Department, Northeastern University.

8:30 LEONARD BERNSTEIN, theater music.

9:00 TROUBLE IN TAHITI. Leonard Bernstein's opera performed by the TV Opera Workshop, under the auspices of the New England Conservatory of Music. Staged and conducted by John Moriarty. Cast: Dinah--Corinne Curry; Sam--Jack Davison; The Trio--Geraldine Barredto, William Conlon, and Lucien Oliver.

10:00 To be Announced.

10:30 LOUIS M. LYONS AND THE NEWS. (6:30 broadcast repeated)

10:45 BACKGROUNDS.. (6:45 broadcast repeated)

11:00 NEW ENGLAND NOTEBOOK. News of educational and cultural events throughout New England.

11:05 MUSIC I. A history of western music from Gregorian chant to the present time, with piano and recorded illustrations. The lectures were recorded at Harvard during Archibald T. Davison's last year as the James Edward Ditson Professor of Music.

THURSDAY

5:00 NEW RECORDINGS. An opportunity to review recent releases.

5:30 TOMORROW'S SYMPHONY. G. Wallace Woodworth, professor of music, Harvard University.

6:30 LOUIS M. LYONS AND THE NEWS. Curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University.

6:45 ROBERT BARAM AND THE NEW ENGLAND NEWS.

7:00 MUSICA NOVA, 1958. BIALAS, Indiannische Kantate; KLEBE, Romische Elegiem; HOLLER, Symphonique Phantasie. (Auspices of the German Consular Office)

8:00 COUCHICHING CONFERENCE, 1959. Social Changes in Asia.

9:00 To be Announced.

9:30 FRANKLIN LECTURES, 1959. Human Dignity and the Clash of Ideologies in A Shrinking World.

10:30 LOUIS M. LYONS AND THE NEWS. (6:30 broadcast repeated)

10:45 ROUNDUP OF THE BRITISH WEEKLIES. (BBC)

11:00 NEW ENGLAND NOTEBOOK. News of educational and cultural events throughout New England.

11:05 MUSIC I. A history of western music from Gregorian chant to the present time with piano and recorded illustrations. The lectures were recorded at Harvard during Archibald T. Davison's last year as the James Edward Ditson Professor of Music.

FRIDAY

2:10 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Charles Munch, music director. Direct from Symphony Hall. Program: KHRENIKOV, Suite from incidental music to Much Ado About Nothing; AMIROV, Mugams; KABALEVSKY, Piano Concerto; MOUSSORGSKY-RAVEL. Pictures at an Exhibition.

4:00 To Be Announced.

5:00 NEW RECORDINGS. An opportunity to review recent releases.

6:00 THE LAST PURITAN, by George Santayana. The complete work in a serialized reading by Bill Cavness.

6:30 LOUIS M. LYONS AND THE NEWS. Curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University.

6:45 BACKGROUNDS. Analysis of issues and events with Louis M. Lyons and guests.

7:00 TOMORROW'S SYMPHONY. G. Wallace Woodworth, professor of music, Harvard University.

8:00 SNAPSHOTS OF INDIA'S CIVILIZATION. Rabindranath Tagore, a modern Indian educator. Talks by Professor Elmer H. Cutts, Chairman of the History Department, Northeastern University.

8:30 GARDNER READ: OUR AMERICAN MUSIC. Gardner Read, composer-in-residence, Boston University. READ, Prelude and Toccata; WARD, Symphony No. 3; KAY, Serenade. The Eastlan Group, IV.

9:30 FATHER O'CONNOR'S JAZZ ANTHOLOGY. Reverend Norman J. O'Connor, C.S.P., Catholic chaplain, Boston University.

10:30 LOUIS M. LYONS AND THE NEWS. (6:30 broadcast repeated).

10:45 BACKGROUNDS. (6:45 broadcast repeated).

11:00 MUSIC OF THE BAROQUE. A series of programs studying the music of the Baroque period, its history and development.