Word: bernstein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program will be repeated tonight and will mark Bernstein's farewell for the season after his four weeks as guest conductor of the Symphony...
...Leonard Bernstein put on quite a show yesterday afternoon in Symphony Hall. He also conducted an early Mozart Symphony-No. 25, in G minor-but that was something of an appetizer, and if it, was played a bit monotonously, with very little range of volume, nobody remembered by the end of the concert. This was because, in the meantime, Bernstein, the Boston Symphony, the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society, a soprano, and an alto had joined in a performance of Mahler's Second Symphony, a work which engages its performers in varying combinations for seventy five minutes...
...brasses playing louder than you had thought possible. You would hear a number of light, charming folk-tunes serving as a contrast to the assorted volume zeniths. And after one hour and fifteen minutes of this sort of thing, you would be likely to feel as exhausted as Leonard Bernstein obviously felt, and as enthusiastic about his conducting as was the audience. Bernstein looks like the music sounds. He cajoles, he dances, he whips himself into frenzies of excitement. And he brings the house down...
...last week's revival, instead of Blitzstein at a solitary piano, there was a white-tied Leonard Bernstein conducting a tiny orchestra. Bernstein did well by The Cradle's sometimes crude, sometimes clever music. But time had been less kind to The Cradle itself. It seemed more strident and less exciting; it had also become less topical. Its cockiness about labor- which had led it to treat the bosses with contemptuous laughter rather than bitter words-seemed early New Deal, not postwar. The Cradle's stagecraft, far from seeming daring, almost seemed dated. Only where Blitzstein...
...Bernstein: Facsimile (RCA Victor Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein conducting; Victor, 4 sides). First recording of the music of last year's hit ballet. Few would quarrel with Lenny Bernstein's own analysis of it: "Neurotic music." Performance: good...