Festival (Canadian TV series)

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Festival
Country of origin Canada
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 9
Production
Executive producer(s) Robert Allen[1]
Release
Original network CBC Television
Original release 10 October 1960 (1960-10-10) –
26 March 1969 (1969-03-26)
External links
[{{#property:P856}} Website]

Festival (initially titled Festival '61) is a Canadian entertainment anthology television series which aired on CBC Television from 1960 to 1969.

Premise

CBC Television aired dramatic and musical anthology series such as Scope and Folio during the 1950s. Robert Allen, a producer on Folio, became supervising producer of the new Festival series.[2][3]

Production

The production cost of a typical Festival drama show was approximately $45,000 in 1961, among the highest production costs of CBC programming at the time.[4] Productions such as a ballet performance or a Gilbert and Sullivan play could cost $60,000 for CBC.[4]

Scheduling

This series was broadcast as follows:

Day Time Season run Duration (minutes)
Monday 9:30 p.m. 10 October 1960 19 June 1961 60-90
Monday 9:30 p.m. 2 October 1961 11 June 1962 60-90
Monday 9:30 p.m. 1 October 1962 20 May 1963 60-135
Wednesday 9:30 p.m. 2 October 1963 24 June 1964 90
Wednesday 9:30 p.m. 7 October 1964 30 June 1965 30
Wednesday 9:30 p.m. 15 September 1965 6 July 1966 30
Wednesday 9:30 p.m. 14 September 1966 10 May 1967 90
Wednesday 9:30 p.m. 4 October 1967 8 May 1968 90
Wednesday 9:30 p.m. 30 October 1968 26 March 1969 90

Seasons

1960-61

Festival was pre-empted some weeks with such programming as specials from the Omnibus or Hall of Fame series, or by sports (hockey, football), or by other special programs.

Festival (Canadian TV series)/1960-61 season

1961-62

The program was simply billed as Festival in its second season. Most pre-empted weeks were for special episodes of Camera Canada.

Festival (Canadian TV series)/1961-62 season

1962-63

Weeks not indicated were pre-empted by special broadcasts such as Camera Canada or The Telephone Hour. National election coverage pre-empted Festival on 8 April 1963.

Festival (Canadian TV series)/1962-63 season

1963-64

Weeks not indicated were pre-empted by special broadcasts such as Camera Canada, Horizon or Intertel. NHL hockey playoffs pre-empted Festival on 8 April 1964.

Title Writer Original air date
"The Mikado" Gilbert and Sullivan 2 October 1963
Stratford Festival production, starring Maurice Brown (Mikado), Irene Byatt (Katisha), Andrew Downie (Nanki-Poo), Howell Glynne (Pooh-Bah), Eric House (The Lord High Executioner), Heather Thomson (Yum-Yum); produced by Norman Campbell[5][6]
"Antigone" Jean Anouilh 9 October 1963
Starring Suzanne Grossman, Budd Knapp, Dino Narizzano, Douglas Rain[7]
"The Labyrinth" Charles Israel 16 October 1963
James Doohan, Alice Hill, Budd Knapp, Arch McDonnell, Janis Orenstein[8]
"Pale Horse, Pale Rider" Katherine Anne Porter 23 October 1963
Play concerning the 1918 influenza epidemic, starring Keir Dullea, Joan Hackett[9]
"Le Medicin Malgre Lui" Moliere 30 October 1963
Theatre du Nouveau Monde from Montreal performs this play in French; starring Jean Dalmain, Gabriel Gascon, Germaine Giroux, Guy Hoffman, Monique Joly, Monique Leyrac; introduction by Rene Levesque, directed by Jean Gascon[10][11]
"Viennese Night" TBA 6 November 1963
Music performance featuring soloist Elizabeth Schwarzkopf and conductor Willi Boskovsky[12]
"I Spy and A Resounding Tinkle" John Mortimer and N. F. Simpson 13 November 1963
Two plays are featured: "I Spy" stars Henry Comor, Eric House, Hilary Vernon, and "A Resounding Tinkle" stars Helen Burns, Eric House[13]
"Pierre Boulez, Frenchman, Composer, Conductor" TBA 20 November 1963
Broadcast of a Radio-Canada music performance featuring works by Debussy, Stravinsky with works by Boulez himself[14]
"The Slave of Truth" Molière 27 November 1963
Adaptation of Le Misanthrope starring Leo Ciceri, James Douglas, Michael Learned, Toby Robins, Norman Welsh[15]
"Roots" Arnold Wesker 4 December 1963
Starring Vanya Franck, Geraldine McEwan, Powys Thomas, Margery Withers[16]
"Primer on Prima Donnas" TBA 11 December 1963
Recollections of historic opera performers, performed by Joan Sutherland with Richard Bonynge conducting the CBC Symphony Orchestra[17]
"Diary of a Scoundrel" Alexander Ostrovsky 25 December 1963
Comedy set in mid 19th century Russia, starring Peter Donat, Norma Renault, Hilary Vernon, Hugh Webster[18]
"Still Life" Jack Pulman 1 January 1964
Starring Michael Crawford, Budd Knapp, Nancy Wickwire[19]
"Major Barbara" Bernard Shaw 8 January 1964
Starring Gillie Fenwick (Andrew Undershaft), Frances Hyland (Major Barbara)[20]
"First Love" Ivan Turgenev 22 January 1964
Starring Paul Harding, Jane Mallett, Richard Monette, Heather Sears[21]
"A Very Close Family" Bernard Slade 29 January 1964
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"Pas de Dix and The Bitter Weird" George Ballanchine, Agnes de Mille 5 February 1964
Royal Winnipeg Ballet performance[23]
"Young Canadians in Concert" TBA 19 February 1964
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra in concert, introduced by Wilfrid Pelletier, produced by Franz Kraemer[24]
"Uncle Vanya" Anton Chekhov 26 February 1964
Starring Winifred Dennis, Rita Gam, Eric House, William Hutt, Roberta Maxwell, John Vernon[25]
"Place des Arts" TBA 4 March 1964
Zubin Mehta conducts the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Strauss's Ein Heldenleben[26]
"The Firebugs" Max Frisch, adapted by John Bethune 11 March 1964
Starring Patricia Collins, Jack Creley, Lou Jacobi, Cosette Lee, John Vernon[27]
"Pale Horse, Pale Rider" TBA 18 March 1964
Repeat from 23 October 1963[28]
"Diary of a Scoundrel" TBA 1 April 1964
Repeat from 25 December 1963[29]
"Hamlet" William Shakespeare 15 April 1964
Christopher Plummer stars in the BBC adaptation, recorded in Helsingør (Elsinore), Denmark[30]
"Othello" TBA 22 April 1964
Repeat from 22 April 1963[31]
"Triple Play" TBA 6 May 1964
Three different styles of performance: ballet (National Ballet), folk (Ian and Sylvia Tyson) and jazz (Phil Nimmons' group)[32]
"The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner" James Hogg 13 May 1964
Drama concerning crimes motivate by religious fanaticism; starring Gillie Fenwick, Paul Harding, Paul Massie, Neil McCallum, Norma Renault[33]
"Concerti or Four Wednesdays" TBA 3 June 1964
Glenn Gould discusses and performs compsitions by Bach, Beethoven, Sweelinck, Weber[34]
"A Festival of Miniatures" TBA 10 June 1964
Overview of music compositions by Brahms, Debussy, Granados, Haydn, Monteverdi, Mozart, Schumann, Stravinsky, Webern[35]
"Claudio Arrais" TBA 17 June 1964
Sonata No. 7 in A minor (Mozart) and Sonata in C minor Opus 111 (Beethoven) are performed on piano by Chile's Arrais[36]
"100th Birthday of Richard Strauss" TBA 24 June 1964
CBC Symphony Orchestra performs with Lois Marshall (soprano), Hermann Prey (baritone) in honour of Strauss[37]


References

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