Word: bernstein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leonard Bernstein '39 and Alan Jay Lerner '40 have collaborated on two pieces called "Songs for Harvard," which will be premiered at the joint Band-Glee Club Carnegie Hall concert this Saturday...
...first, entitled "Dedication," is a chorale; the other, "Lonely Men of Harvard," is termed by its authors a "lament-march." G. Wright Briggs Jr. '31, director of the Harvard Band, said that "Dedication" represented Bernstein in a musically elevated mood, whereas the other piece was "typically Broadway...
...hearty bravo for your Feb. 4 Leonard Bernstein article. As usual, your story did an excellent job of capturing the spirit of the man and his music. I especially liked Koerner's cover portrait, which I think conveys that quality in Bernstein's conducting which is relaxed and yet, at the same time, powerful and forceful...
...could have sworn Koerner's cover showed Abraham Lincoln sleepwalking. My apologies to the handsome Mr. Bernstein...
...musicians called hutzpa. This, for instance, he displayed when conducting (probably for the first time in his life) Puccini's La Boheme at La Scala and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the orchestra and chorus of Santa Cecilia in Rome. I did not make any remarks about Bernstein's hip movements while conducting Beethoven's Ninth...