Word: bernstein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commencement officers are Helen Bernstein, class marshal; Julia Brown Ashenbursi, commencement chairman; Betty Hoston, baccalaureate chairman; Baila Cohen, class night chairman; and Letitia Young, assistant class night chairman. Permanent class officers for the Class of 1951 are Julia Brown Ashenhurst, secretary and Jean O'Brein, class agent...
...with polytonality (writing in two or more keys simultaneously) before Stravinsky even thought about Firebird (1910), Ives somewhat whimsically deeded to set his Yankee tunes "in counter point with some Bach tunes," as "a sort of bad joke." Joke or not, audience and critics enjoyed the Second as Leonard Bernstein led the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra through it. Olin Downes of the New York Times found parts of it "of unique inspiration and a noble elevation of thought...
Annex seniors will hold their annual weekend May 18-20, Helen Bernstein, class president, announced at a senior meeting yesterday...
...symphonies he cared for, he could take his pick of concerts by the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, the Boston Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic, a sensitive, if not great, new orchestra making its first tour of the U.S. under the conductorship of Serge Koussevitzky and Leonard Bernstein. In midweek, the New York Philharmonic offered a program specially tempting to musical conservatives: the first installment of a four-week Brahms cycle, conducted by Bruno Walter...
...Bernstein: Symphony No. 2 (Lukas Foss, pianist; the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Leonard Bernstein conducting; Columbia, 2 sides LP). Composer Bernstein took his inspiration for this work from Poet W. H. Auden's The Age of Anxiety; he seems to have taken his musical inspiration from Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, et al. Performance and recording: good...