Word: bernstein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other nights last week New Yorkers could hear brilliant, brash Lenny Bernstein's New York City Symphony playing the new music that the older conductors ignore. They crowded into recitals by Singers Marian Anderson, Carol Brice and Giuseppe De Luca; concerts by Pianists John Kirkpatrick and Alexander Brailowsky (who in six programs is playing every solo piano piece Chopin wrote). There were folk songs and ballads, American songs by Tom Scott, South African veld songs by Josef Marais, and jive concerts all over the place...
...repertoire of both classical and original modern productions. Antony Tudor is the artistic and Max Goberman the musical director. Tonight's performance will be Giselle, a restaged classical ballet; Interplay, the modern dance which made such a hit last season; and Facsimile, this year's important premiere, a Leonard Bernstein-Jerome Robbins product...
...most eagerly awaited premiere of the Manhattan ballet season. The three young collaborators, Jerome Robbins (choreography), Leonard Bernstein (music), Oliver Smith (sets) had teamed together twice before. Their good-natured, casual Fancy Free, was still, after two and a half years, one of the Ballet Theatre's best attractions. Then they joined hands in a musical comedy, On the Town, and it became a Broadway...
...frantic score by Lenny Bernstein, the three "insecure people" (the integrated ones never appeared) rolled on the floor, kissed indiscriminately, tussled. Then the two men tossed Nora Kaye back & forth like a shuttlecock until she fell sobbing on the floor (on opening night, she went down so hard that many seat-holders thought she had sprained her ankle). At this point, Ballerina Kaye cried out "Stop...
...Copland's Jazz Concerto, unheard since 1930, was programed this week by Pianist Leo Smit and Leonard Bernstein's New York City Symphony...