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Season 7 | |
No. of episodes | 20 |
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Original network | CBC |
Original release | 14 September 1966 – 10 May 1967 |
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The seventh season of the Canadian television anthology series Festival broadcast on CBC Television from 14 September 1966 to 10 May 1967 . Twenty new episodes aired this season.
The bulk of season seven presented plays and story adaptations beginning with the premiere, the naturalistic 1888 play Miss Julie written by August Strindberg and translated by Elizabeth Spriggs. John Bethune adapted two plays for television, William Shakespeare's comedy The Taming of the Shrew and Oscar Wilde's satire Lady Windermere's Fan (1892). Mavor Moore adapted three works, Max Beerbohm's short story Enoch Soames (1916), Maxwell Anderson's 1933 Broadway drama Mary of Scotland , and a story by French-Canadian author Marie-Claire Blais, The Puppet Caravan. Ottawa writer Enid Abrahams' television drama Thomas' Elegy aired, as did his play, New Bottles, New Wine. Two plays by M. Charles Cohen were performed; his sequel David, Chapter III, and The True Bleeding Heart of Martin B. Michael Sinelnikoff's drama Spirit of the Deed is based on Henry James' short story The Third Person (1900). Antony Ferry wrote a teleplay about the works of poet-playwright Bertolt Brecht, called Brecht: A Threepenny Profile. Rudi Dorn both wrote and directed Variations, a thirty-minute "fantasy for vision" presented in forty-four scenes with very few lines of dialogue. Canadian playwright Stanley Mann wrote the original drama The Fifth-Floor People. Also presented are Federico García Lorca's tragedy Yerma (1934), Tom Hendry's Fifteen Miles of Broken Glass, Herb Hosie's Westbrook's Man, Tad Mosel's drama play My Lost Saints, and Marc Brandel's thriller The Devil Makes Three.
Paul McDowell bridges comedy skits and sketches with music and songs in a revue hour filmed with an audience.
Season six's hour of "The Blues" hosted by Barry Callaghan is now expanded into ninety minutes of discussion and songs performed by folk/blues guitarist Brownie McGhee, harmonica player Sonny Terry, guitarist/bassist Willie Dixon, Georgia-born one-man band musician Jesse Fuller, singer Mable Hillery, guitarist Booker White, pianist Sunnyland Slim, guitarist Big Joe Williams, and the "father of modern Chicago blues" Muddy Waters and his band, including pianist Otis Spann with James Cotton (harmonica), Samuel Longhorn (guitar), James Madison (guitar), and Jimmy Lee Morris (bass). Jazz king of Harlem "stride" piano, Willie "the Lion" Smith showcases his compositions and discusses music with fellow jazz pianist Don Ewell. A star of the Metropolitan Opera, Canadian soprano Teresa Stratas, performs with baritone Louis Quilico, contralto Patricia Rideout, tenors Robert Jeffrey and Ermanno Mauro, and the Festival Orchestra conducted by Walter Susskind. They peform selections from Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro , songs from La Périchole by Jacques Offenbach, and scenes from Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin (1879) and Verdi's opera La Traviata (1853). Decca classical records producer John Culshaw introduces an hour with the BBC head of music and arts programs, Sir Humphrey Burton, and pianist Glenn Gould, discussing the future of music performance and composition, with Gould playing excerpts from Bach and Beethoven.
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No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | Ref. | ||||||
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164 | 1 | "Miss Julie" | Eric Till | Play by : August Strindberg Translated by : Elizabeth Spriggs Adapted by : Robert Huber | 14 September 1966 | [21] [22] | ||||||
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165 | 2 | "Fifteen Miles of Broken Glass" | John Hirsch | Tom Hendry | 21 September 1966 | [23] [24] [25] | ||||||
166 | 3 | "Mary of Scotland" | Peter Boretski | Play by : Maxwell Anderson Adapted by : Mavor Moore | 28 September 1966 | [26] [27] | ||||||
167 | 4 | "David, Chapter III" | Harvey Hart | M. Charles Cohen | 5 October 1966 | [28] [29] | ||||||
168 | 5 | "Westbrook's Man" | Rudi Dorn | Herb Hosie | 12 October 1966 | [30] [31] [32] [33] | ||||||
"Ligging About" | Unknown | Paul McDowell | ||||||||||
Part 1 (30 minutes). Westbrook's Man : Please add a Plot Summary here, replacing this text. For guidance, see How to write a plot summary WP:PLOTSUM and the Television Plot Manual of Style. MOS:TVPLOT Cast: Robert Christie, John Kastner, Lynn Gorman, and Michele Finney. Part 2 (60 minutes). Ligging About : This revue hour by Paul McDowell and Barry Baldero was filmed with an audience, and presents music and songs, skits and sketches, including The Restaurant, The Conductor, The Apartment, Jimmy and Company and a drama. Songs; Loving and Living, Looking So Nice, Trouble, Follow the Wind, My Baby Left Me, When the Leaves Turn in September, The Whistlers, The Angles, and Swinging Sounds. Cast: Judy Armstrong, Brian Crabb, Paul Soles, and Diane Stapley. Musical Director, Allan MacMillan. | ||||||||||||
169 | 6 | "Thomas' Elegy" | Mervyn Rosenzveig | Enid Abrahams | 19 October 1966 | [34] [35] | ||||||
Please add a Plot Summary here, replacing this text. For guidance, see How to write a plot summary WP:PLOTSUM and the Television Plot Manual of Style. MOS:TVPLOT Cast: Danny McIlravey, Kirstin Campbell, Lorraine Foreman, Tom Harvey, Jane Mallett, and Lynne Gorman. Notes: Producer, Gordon Hinch. This 30-minute episode was followed by the one-hour Music Canada episode "Prelude to Expo". | ||||||||||||
170 | 7 | "Spirit of the Deed" | David Gardner | Based on : "The Third Person" Short story by : Henry James Written by : Michael Sinelnikoff | 26 October 1966 | [36] [37] [38] | ||||||
"You Can Always Learn Something from a Lady" | Unknown | Willie "the Lion" Smith | ||||||||||
Part 1 (60 minutes). Spirit of the Deed : Please add a Plot Summary here, replacing this text. For guidance, see How to write a plot summary WP:PLOTSUM and the Television Plot Manual of Style. MOS:TVPLOT Cast: Mary Savidge (Susan Frush), Amelia Hall (Amy Frush), Gordon Pinsent (Cuthbert Frush), Louise Nichol, Rex Sevenoaks, and Michael Snow. Part 2 (30 minutes). You Can Always Learn Something from a Lady : CBC Television invites Willie "the Lion" Smith to record a show focusing on his compositions as one of the last great jazz kings of Harlem "stride" piano. As elder statesman, he performs and discusses music with fellow jazz pianist Don Ewell. Notes: Production personnel: Gordon Hinch, Leo Orenstein, Bill Zaharuk, Vlad Handera, Dave Gillman. | ||||||||||||
171 | 8 | "New Bottles, New Wine" | Ron Kelly | Enid Abrahams | 9 November 1966 | [39] [40] | ||||||
Please add a Plot Summary here, replacing this text. For guidance, see How to write a plot summary WP:PLOTSUM and the Television Plot Manual of Style. MOS:TVPLOT Cast: Patricia Collins, Don Harron, Brady McNamara, Sandy Webster, Aileen Seaton and Pat Moffatt. Notes: Filmed in Applewood Hills, Cooksville. This 30-minute episode was followed by a one-hour Intertel program. | ||||||||||||
172 | 9 | "My Lost Saints" | Tad Mosel | Curt Reis | 30 November 1966 | [41] [42] [43] | ||||||
"Brecht: A Threepenny Profile" | Mario Prizek | Antony Ferry | ||||||||||
Part 1 (60 minutes). My Lost Saints : Please add a Plot Summary here, replacing this text. For guidance, see How to write a plot summary WP:PLOTSUM and the Television Plot Manual of Style. MOS:TVPLOT Cast: Brett Somers, Alice Hill, Jack Creley, Charmion King. and Kirsten Campbell. Part 2 (30 minutes). Brecht: A Threepenny Profile : Please add a Plot Summary here, replacing this text. For guidance, see How to write a plot summary WP:PLOTSUM and the Television Plot Manual of Style. MOS:TVPLOT Cast: Hugh Webster as Bertold Brecht, Chris Wiggins, John Horton, Budd Knapp, Anna Reiser, Gwen Thomas, and Patrick Sinclair. | ||||||||||||
173 | 10 | "The Blues" | Paddy Sampson | Music by : Blues artists Researched by : Martin Lavut Teleplay by : Barry Callaghan | 28 December 1966 | [44] [45] [46] | ||||||
Several of America's greatest living blues performers assemble together for the first time in a television studio. Barry Callaghan hosts this ninety-minute unrehearsed session of music and conversation, in which, in their own words, the musicians discuss and define the blues, and elaborate on its origins, history, styles, and its meaning to them personally. Featured musicians and musical performances include:
Notes: "The Blues" originally aired in Season 6 as a one-hour show on 23 February 1966. It was re-edited with additional footage into this 90-minute presentation. Executive Producer, Robert Allen. Producer, Paddy Sampson. Studio Director, Patrick King. | ||||||||||||
174 | 11 | "The Taming of the Shrew" | Mario Prizek | Play by : William Shakespeare Adapted by : John Bethune | 11 January 1967 | [47] [48] | ||||||
Please add a Plot Summary here, replacing this text. For guidance, see How to write a plot summary WP:PLOTSUM and the Television Plot Manual of Style. MOS:TVPLOT Cast: Susan Clark (Katherina), David Buck (Petruchio), Chris Newton (Lucentio), Bruno Gerussi (Grumio), Gordon Pinsent (Tranio), Drew Thompson (Pedant), John Drainie (Baptista), Gillie Fenwick (Vincentio), John Horton (Hortensio), Jack Creley (Gremio), and Diana Barrington (Bianca). | ||||||||||||
175 | 12 | "Teresa Stratas 1967" | Unknown | Mozart · Tchaikovsky · Verdi · Jacques Offenbach | 25 January 1967 | [49] [50] | ||||||
Canadian soprano Teresa Stratas, star of the Metropolitan Opera, performs excerpts from her repertoire, with baritone Louis Quilico, contralto Patricia Rideout, and the Festival Orchestra conducted by Walter Susskind. Performances include, "Cherubino's Aria" from Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro , and songs from La Périchole by Jacques Offenbach. In "The Letter Scene" from Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin , Stratas sings the role of Tatjana, with Praticia Rideout as The Nurse. In scenes from Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata , Act II, Stratas performs the role of Violetta, with Quilico as the elder Germont, tenor Robert Jeffrey as Alfredo, Kathy Newman as Annina, and tenor Ermanno Mauro as The Gardener. | ||||||||||||
176 | 13 | "Yerma" | Leo Orenstein | Play by : Federico García Lorca Adapted by : Alvin Goldman | 8 February 1967 | [51] [52] | ||||||
177 | 14 | "The Devil Makes Three" | Mario Prizek | Marc Brandel | 15 February 1967 | [53] [54] | ||||||
Please add a Plot Summary here, replacing this text. For guidance, see How to write a plot summary WP:PLOTSUM and the Television Plot Manual of Style. MOS:TVPLOT Cast: David Oxley (Wycherly), Barbara Shelley (Ruth), David Hemmings (Deniken), Ivor Barry (Voal), Gerard Parkes (Inspector Milne), Mel Scott (Bartender), Sydney Brown (Sergean Ross), Richard Bond (Robin). Notes: Produced by Mario Prizek. The duration was unusually 67 minutes. To fill the remaining 90-minutes of air-time, Charles Huguenot van der Linden's 1962 short film "Big City Blues" [55] aired, featuring trumpeter Nelson Williams. | ||||||||||||
178 | 15 | "The Puppet Caravan" | Paul Almond | Story by : Marie-Claire Blais Adapted by : Mavor Moore | 1 March 1967 | [56] [57] [58] [59] | ||||||
"The Fifth-Floor People" | Mervyn Rosenzveig | Stanley Mann | ||||||||||
Part 1 (30 minutes). The Puppet Caravan : Please add a Plot Summary here, replacing this text. For guidance, see How to write a plot summary WP:PLOTSUM and the Television Plot Manual of Style. MOS:TVPLOT Cast: Geneviève Bujold, François Tassé, and Jean Doyon. Part 2 (60 minutes). The Fifth-Floor People : Please add a Plot Summary here, replacing this text. For guidance, see How to write a plot summary WP:PLOTSUM and the Television Plot Manual of Style. MOS:TVPLOT Cast: Ted Follows, Neil McCallum, Patricia Collins, Jane Mallett, Gillie Fenwick, Paul Harding. | ||||||||||||
179 | 16 | "Enoch Soames" | Melwyn Breen | Short story by : Max Beerbohm Adapted by : Mavor Moore | 15 March 1967 | [60] [61] [62] | ||||||
Please add a Plot Summary here, replacing this text. For guidance, see How to write a plot summary WP:PLOTSUM and the Television Plot Manual of Style. MOS:TVPLOT Cast: Brian Petchey, Colin Fox, Joseph Shaw, Leslie Yeo, Steven Baron, and Richard Bidlake. Notes: Duration, 30 minutes. Preceded by a rerun of the Cariboo Country episode "The Education of Phyllistine". | ||||||||||||
180 | 17 | "Variations" | Rudi Dorn | Rudi Dorn | 22 March 1967 | [63] [64] [65] | ||||||
181 | 18 | "To Every Man His Bach" | Unknown | Unknown | 29 March 1967 | [66] [67] [68] [69] | ||||||
"Access" | Unknown | Unknown | ||||||||||
Part 1 (60 minutes). To Every Man His Bach : Decca classical records producer John Culshaw introduces this hour, featuring the BBC's head of music and arts programs, Sir Humphrey Burton, and pianist Glenn Gould, discussing the future of music performance and composition, with excerpts played by Gould (e.g., Goldberg Variation #4 by Bach). Gould suggests concert hall classical music performance is outdated with modern-age electronic delivery, prognosticating that the concert business might fail by 1999. Gould predicts electronic music is the future, and home listeners will "conduct" their own "performance" turning dials, and even compose by adjusting sine waves. Home editing machines, interpretations, and variations are examined, with excerpts from Piano Sonata No. 5 (Beethoven), Allemande from Bach's Partita No. 5, and Beethoven's Emperor Concerto with Leopold Stokowski. Gould explains why he prefers the recording studio to stage performance, his difficulty recording fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier , and combining two different takes, like a film editor does. He plays the fugue. In summation Culshaw concludes, "The listener of the future will participate much more in...responding to music and in creating the conditions he wants...a healthy...creative development." Part 2 (30 minutes). Access : Please add a Plot Summary here, replacing this text. For guidance, see How to write a plot summary WP:PLOTSUM and the Television Plot Manual of Style. MOS:TVPLOT Cast and subject: A relationship drama between a mother (Kate Reid), her teenage son (Miles Jordan), and divorced father (Gerard Parkes). | ||||||||||||
182 | 19 | "The True Bleeding Heart of Martin B." | George Bloomfield | M. Charles Cohen | 26 April 1967 | [13] [70] | ||||||
183 | 20 | "Lady Windermere's Fan" | Mario Prizek | Play by : Oscar Wilde Adapted by : John Bethune | 10 May 1967 | [71] [72] |