Word: bernstein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leonard Bernstein, brilliant, brash young (28) man of U.S. music, triumphed in a ticklish test. In Manhattan he led Dr. Serge Koussevitzky's Boston Symphony Orchestra through a short but arduous young man's program: Symphony No. 7 in C Major (which Schubert wrote at 31), Le Sacre du Printemps, which Stravinsky wrote at 30. It was the first time that 72-year-old Serge Koussevitzky had ever let a guest conduct his Boston Orchestra for a whole concert in New York. Carnegie Hall was so packed that even Pianist Jose Iturbi had to stand...
Koussevitzky leaned over the railing of Box No. 55, beaming like a polished apple, while his prize protege took four bows. Said Lenny Bernstein (whom Koussevitzky calls Lenyushka): "It was pretty awe-inspiring...
...Koussevitzky too was on his annual vacation. In his absence, the Boston will be led for a month by 28-year-old Leonard Bernstein, Koussevitzky's favorite protege, and also mentioned as a likely successor...
...Spokane audience through a program that jumped from Handel to Reynaldo Hahn. At the end of an earnest evening, Jennie Tourel finally let the lowbrows in the audience have Songs My Mother Taught Me, My Hero (from The Chocolate Soldier), and a piece of heavy whimsy by Leonard Bernstein, called I Hate Music. Two nights later she sang in the little college town of Pullman, Wash., and half the town turned out to hear...
...Bernstein: Fancy Free (Ballet Theatre Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein conducting, with Billie Holiday; Decca, 8 sides). The jaunty, jazzy ballet score with inappropriate lyrics sung-by blue-voiced Billie Holiday. Performance: fair...