Word: bernstein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were other names which pop up regularly all along the U.S. Communist line: ex-Yank Correspondent Walter Bernstein, Movie Scripter Alvah Bessie (now awaiting trial for contempt of Congress), New Yorker Profiler Richard O. Boyer, ex-Howard University Professor Doxey Wilkerson...
Hillel--Margery Fischbein '49, president; Helen Bernstein '50, secretary...
...most active members in the Club's history was Leonard Bernstein '39, protege of Serge Koussevitzky and well-known conductor and composer, who headed the program committee and managed to perform at all but one of the regular meetings of the Club in the year 1936-37 and played two works, including one of his own compositions, at the annual concert that year...
Many of Pierian's alumni have gone on to much greater achievements in the musical field. Perhaps the outstanding example is Leonard Bernstein 39, who has become a figure of world renown both as a composer and as a conductor. Bernstein led the New York City Symphony for several years, and was one of those considered to succeed Serge Koussevitzky as conductor of the Boston Symphony. For his composing abilities, Bernstein recently said of himself, "I am the logical man to write the Great American Opera...
...Shock. The choice of Koussevitzky's successor was something of a surprise, but not a shock. Koussevitzky's 29-year-old protégé Leonard Bernstein had long had the inside track with his sponsor, but not with the symphony's trustees. The post went instead to 56-year-old Alsatian Charles Münch, who first came to the U.S. in December 1946, has since guest-conducted in Boston, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles...