From the Young People’s Concert: “Young Performers No. 5”
The 30-year old New York Philharmonic Assistant conductor Claudio Abbado conducts Ravel’s Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet, and Strings with clarinetist Weldon Berry, flautist Amos Eisenberg, and harpist Heidi Lehwalder.
Produced and directed by Roger Englander.
Original CBS Television Network Broadcast Date: 23 December 1963. The program was originally set to be broadcast on November 23, 1963, but the assassination of President John F. Kennedy the day before shook the world.
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