Radio: Televised Symphony

Closed-circuit television, which has already flashed a few big fights (Walcott v. Marciano) and the Metropolitan Opera (Carmen) on certain U.S. movie screens, will try symphonic music next January. In the first of five monthly closed-circuit productions, a regular concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will be televised for theater-TV.

Manhattan’s new Stadium Television Network, which has already lined up some 50 theaters coast to coast for the series, will sell subscriptions to the concerts for less than $10. The concerts will probably be screened on slow Monday nights, and a theater owner may pull out of the deal if half the house is not sold in advance. If the plan works, other top U.S. symphony orchestras will be signed up for alternating telecasts once a week, thus offering music lovers the next best thing to actually sitting in the nation’s great concert halls.