Directions in Music


Directions in Music is a Canadian music television miniseries which aired on CBC Television in 1961.

Premise

This Vancouver production featured five episodes of various musical forms.

Scheduling

This half-hour series was broadcast Sundays at 4:30 p.m. from 23 April to 21 May 1961.

Episodes

  1. "Apollo and Hyacinth", a 1949 composition by Hans Werner Henze, was sung by Winona Denyes with musicians conducted by John Avison
  2. Lloyd Powell provided discussion and a performance of post-Bach piano music
  3. Intimate opera was featured, including a London Intimate Opera Company performance of Thomas Arne's Thomas and Sally Works by Purcell and Offenbach were also noted in this episode.
  4. James Joyce's compositions
  5. A recital of madrigals by the Vancouver Cantata Singers under conductor Hugh McLean