Small World (Edward R. Murrow, Maria Callas, And The Bottle Of Brandy)

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Wall Street Journal critic Terry Teachout has a lively blog (About Last Night) at ArtsJournal.com, and here’s his latest offering:

Maria Callas and Sir Thomas Beecham chat with Edward R. Murrow in 1959 on the CBS program Small World. Callas is speaking from Milan, Beecham from Nice:

 

Wouldn’t it be lovely to have that kind of discourse on TV nowadays?

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3 Responses to Small World (Edward R. Murrow, Maria Callas, And The Bottle Of Brandy)

  1. Laurence Glavin's avatar Laurence Glavin says:
    March 7, 2012 at 3:33 pm

    Of course there are the colloquies that occur every weeknight on the “PBS News Hour”; and Bill Moyers is back on the same network with “Moyers & Company”.

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