Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: Orchestral

TELEVISION

Friday, July 19

P.G.A. CHAMPIONSHIP (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.)* Taped highlights of the second round of play from Pecan Valley Country Club, San Antonio. Live coverage of third round on Saturday, 6-7:30 p.m.; final round Sunday, 5-7 p.m.

WHAT'S HAPPENING TO AMERICA? (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). NBC News Correspondent Edwin Newman, New York City Mayor John Lindsay and Frank Mankiewicz, press secretary to the late Senator Kennedy, mull over what everyone wants to know. Second in a four-part series.

Tuesday, July 23

OF BLACK AMERICA (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Portrait in Black," fourth in a seven-part series, sums up the opinions of 1,500 blacks and whites questioned at length by CBS News about problems confronting black America.

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NET JOURNAL. "Plumes for My Rich Aunt." British Journalist Alan Whicker describes the world of Paris haute couture as glamorized by models "who can wear furs in August, swimsuits in December . . . and look snooty and deadpan even with sand in their shoes" in this bizarre peek at the citadel of high fashion. Interviews with Designers Gerard Picard and Pierre Balmain.

NET FESTIVAL. "Carl Sandburg Remembered" includes eulogies by President Johnson and Poets Archibald MacLeish and Mark Van Doren and recordings by the late great poet himself.

THEATER

Many of the nation's leading repertory groups offer theatrical diversion throughout the summer.

THEATER COMPANY OF BOSTON, University of Rhode Island, Kingston. Eugene Ionesco's Exit the King, an absurd drama about death, July 18-21 and July 25-28; Arthur Miller's autobiographical After the Fall, Aug. 1-4 and 8-11; a play by Günter Grass, The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising, Aug. 15-18 and 22-25.

MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER, Spring Green, Wis., offers Friedrich von Schiller's Mary Stuart, Jean Giraudoux's Amphitryon 38, and Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, June 22-July 28.

A CONTEMPORARY THEATER, Seattle, presents The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Peter Shaffer's spectacle about Pizarro, June 19-July 6, and James Goldman's The Lion in Winter, a fantasy about the domestic life of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, July 7-27.

AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATER, San Francisco, will perform Hamlet, A Streetcar Named Desire, Edward Albee's Tiny Alice, Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill, Tartuffe and The Misanthrope by Molière throughout the summer. Your Own Thing, Donald Driver's rock musical, plays through August.

MINNESOTA THEATER COMPANY, Minneapolis. The three opening productions, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, John Arden's study of political dissent, Serjeant Musgrave's Dance, and The Master Builder, Henrik Ibsen's treatise on creative genius, rotate through August. Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui opens Aug. 6, and Merton of the Movies, by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly, joins the repertory Sept. 24.