“The 73-year-old actress is succeeding Walter Cronkite as anchor of the Vienna Philharmonic’s annual New Year’s Day concert on PBS. Cronkite had been the narrator of the Great Performances telecast in the United States for the past 24 years. ‘He is passing the baton this year and staying home with his family, and they asked me if I would do this special 25th anniversary program,’ Andrews said Wednesday during a telephone interview from Los Angeles.”