Overview
The program has three segments: (1) "Introduction to Modern Music" (Leonard Bernstein discusses modern music and composers, including Bartok, Berg, Hindemith, Ives, Prokofiev, Schoenberg and Stravinsky), (2) "Out" (showing of a 1957 UN documentary about the influx of Hungarian refugees into Austria as a result of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution), and (3) "John Hersey Interview" (interview with the writer of segment (2))
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5 - 1The American Musical Comedy October 07, 1956 -
5 - 2Androcles and the Lion October 14, 1956
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5 - 3The Last Day of Manolete October 21, 1956
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5 - 4My Heart's in the Highlands October 28, 1956
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5 - 5Let There Be Farce November 04, 1956
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5 - 6Moliere's School for Wives November 11, 1956
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5 - 7Plays of the Irish Renaissance November 18, 1956
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5 - 8The Blue Hotel November 25, 1956
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5 - 9A Man Without a Country December 02, 1956
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5 - 10The Fine Art of Murder December 09, 1956
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5 - 11The Christmas Tie December 16, 1956
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5 - 12Madeline Visits Omnibus December 23, 1956
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5 - 13The Art of Choreography December 30, 1956
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5 - 14Oedipus, the King January 06, 1957
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5 - 15Introduction to Modern Music January 13, 1957
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5 - 16Lee at Gettysburg January 20, 1957
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5 - 17The Big Wheel: the Burlesque Entertainment of Yesterday January 27, 1957
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5 - 18The Theatre Breaks Loose March 03, 1957
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5 - 19The Trial of Captain Kidd March 10, 1957
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5 - 20How the F-100 Got Its Tail March 17, 1957
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5 - 21The Fall River Legend: the Trial of Lizzie Borden March 24, 1957
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5 - 22The Music of Johann Sebastian Bach March 31, 1957