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Auditions blog: "Up to then, they really didn't know what I did in life He recalled telling friends in the Netherlands, where he was stationed for a few years, when he was chosen host of the concert "It's kept me off the tennis court for three years and I'm bitter about it," he said His column is carried regularly in about 130 newspapers, including the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Portland Oregonian " In between introducing musical numbers, Cronkite presents an Austrian travelogue pbs Cronkite Set for Annual Vienna New Year's Dec 29, 8:06 AM EST If there was ever a time to grant Walter Cronkite a pass on his annual New Year's trip to Vienna, this would be it Riccardo Muti of Milan is this week's guest conductor No matter "For the first time, they looked at me with awe," he said Cronkite has a definite goal in mind Along with loving the music, Cronkite and his wife, Betsy, appreciate the chance to renew acquaintances from his years in Europe as a war correspondent before becoming a CBS News anchor "The Guy Lombardo set are already nursing their headaches " â€â€?â€â€?â€â€? On the Net: http://www This will mark the 20th year that Cronkite, a classical music enthusiast who grew up "conducting" to records played on the Victrola in his room, has hosted the American broadcast of the concert "I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated "It's a different feeling, being able to say what I feel," he said They've learned to sit far back, away from camera angles; one year he was caught on camera watching from one of the front rows â€â€? mere seconds after viewers saw him introduce the song from the balcony His surgery was to repair an old Achilles tendon injury Less than a week before he was due to board a plane to prepare for the Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Day concert, the 87-year-old broadcasting legend is in a New York hospital bed recovering from foot surgery It requires little more from him than being a living legend on call org "Not quite the same hour," he said Cronkite has become as much a New Year's tradition as Dick Clark and the late bandleader Guy Lombardo "Each has his own style and you really begin to learn how each gets a little something different out of the orchestra " Cronkite splits most of his time between homes in New York and Martha's Vineyard This time, he'll visit Vienna's Albertina Museum and its collection of paintings by 16th century German artist Albrecht Durer He narrates the occasional documentary for PBS and others, but most of his working time is spent with speaking engagements and writing a syndicated newspaper column He and Betsy then enjoy the show org â€â€?â€â€?â€â€? EDITOR'S NOTE â€â€? David Bauder can be reached at dbauder"at"ap "I hope to be back on the court this summer It's a big tradition in Europe, where families plan parties around it, Cronkite said Cronkite even uses his recovery time to invite a visitor into his hospital room to talk about the PBS broadcast Cronkite does his last filming the morning of the show at the concert hall, sitting in the balcony with a carefully chosen camera angle showing the venue's decorations but not the still-empty seats After years of maintaining journalistic objectivity, Cronkite is writing an unabashedly liberal opinion column, and generates hundreds of e-mails when he criticizes the Bush administration For several years it was the most-seen TV broadcast in the world, losing that distinction because it is no longer shown in China "It's a lesson in conducting and a lesson in musicology to see all of these great conductors once a year," he said Check local listings for broadcast times org http://thirteen " Now nearly 23 years after retiring from the "CBS Evening News" â€â€? he regrets leaving too soon â€â€? Cronkite still has a contract with the network " The program, in the Austrian capital's Musikverein concert hall, is a light concert of mostly waltzes and polkas composed by Johann or Joseph Strauss |
