Word: bernstein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Laude: Summer Thurman Bernstein, (General Studies), John Joseph Butler, (General Studies), Norbert Thomas Byrnes, (General Studies), Robert James Cooney Jr., (History), John Lyle Fischer, (Anthropology), Benjamin Esther Gelerman, (General Studies), Michael Martin Lovezzola, (General Studies), Robert Francis McGivern, (Government), Gauntt Mahan, (General Studies), Francis Wallace Ramsey 3d, (Government...
...Lively Performance." Dr. Koussevitzky had commissioned Peter Grimes in memory of his late wife, and he proudly proclaimed it the greatest opera since Carmen. He did not conduct its U.S. première, but left it to his prize protégé, Manhattan's Leonard Bernstein. The crowd in Tanglewood's barnlike opera theater got three hours of violent and raw emotion, and agreed that in plot, at least, Peter Grimes had much in common with Bizet's lurid tale of smuggling and murder...
...Koussevitzky, who is always enthusiastic about new things in rehearsals, glowed that it was classic in form and sometimes "very near to Haydn." The Boston Symphony conductor turned often to his protege, Leonard Bernstein, to remark "Isn't it beautiful?" Bernstein thought it a bore...
...Koussevitzky enthusiastically describes as "absolutely classic in form until sometimes it is very near to Haydn," and Peter Grimes, a widely touted opera in English by England's Benjamin Britten, commissioned by Koussevitzky and first played in London in 1945. The student production will be conducted by Leonard Bernstein, most famous of Koussevitzky's bright young...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Marc Blitzstein's Airborne Symphony makes its network debut, Leonard Bernstein conducting...