Word: bernstein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...professional critics will no doubt call this work eclectic," said Leonard Bernstein, warming to one of his fireside chats from the podium of Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall. "Very well. Here are the elements you may find: certainly Schoenberg, Mahler, perhaps Bartok. This is the music of a very eclectic man, and you should hear the passion of Spain, the worldliness of Vienna, the German methodology, the English love of tradition." With that, New York Philharmonic Pianist Paul Jacobs sounded the first six notes of the tone row with a crashing force that introduced to the U.S. the haunting Symphony...
...Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic (CBS) continued to be one of TV's most noteworthy contributions, particularly the program from Japan...
Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (Martha Lipton, mezzo-soprano; the New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein conducting; Columbia, two LPs). A radiant reading by Bernstein of Mahler's mammoth, six-movement "musical poem...
Barreling down U.S. 17 toward Florida in a snappy grey Lincoln convertible Private Lucky Earl Beckwith, U.S.M.C. zoomed into the hamlet of Woodbine, Ga., was forthwith halted by the cops. A check revealed the real owner to be not so Lucky; he was New York Philharmonic Conductor Leonard Bernstein...
Beckwith told questioners that he got a job as chauffeur and valet for Bernstein through "mutual friends" after deserting the Marine Corps in September, had lammed off with the Lincoln for a three weeks' toot. Said absent-minded Maestro Bernstein, who apparently forgot to report the theft: "All I know is that he let me out at a recital on Nov. 24 and never did pick me up again...