Word: bernstein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What Is a Melody? - Second Philharmonic Young People's Concert (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Leonard Bernstein and the N.Y. Philharmonic explore melodies through Wagner, Mozart, Hindemith and Brahms...
...Philharmonic Young People's Concert (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* "The Sound of a Hall," conducted and narrated by Leonard Bernstein, explores the general relationship of acoustics to music and the particular sound of Lincoln Center's new Philharmonic Hall...
...last month's opening of Lincoln Center. Conductor Leonard Bernstein seized an intermission well-wisher with operatic gusto, dropped a kiss upon her cheek, and offered her his own, slightly more ravaged, cheek in return. The kissee, Mrs. John F. Kennedy, looked pleased; but the moment, recorded on nationwide television, brought some cries of public outrage. "Distasteful'' and "disgusting," sniffed the proper to the polltakers; and though Gossip Dorothy Kilgallen soothed one righteous reader by explaining that "it was the sort of 'social' kiss customary in high society," she went...
...never know what a hall will sound like until opening night," Leonard Bernstein has said, "and we were frankly surprised." After the first week's adjustments, his surprise developed into greater enthusiasm. The complaints of his musicians that they couldn't hear other parts of the orchestra were acted upon, other flaws were corrected, and still further improvement was anticipated. It is this ability to adjust, both to changing tastes and to the rigors of time, that remains the most prominent attribute of the hall...
Barnum-Sized Bushel. As the first building completed in the 14-acre, $142 million Lincoln Center complex, Philharmonic Hall attracted to its stage last week a Barnum-sized bushel of musical talent. On opening night, Conductor Bernstein used not only the Philharmonic but also three choruses (the Juilliard, Schola Cantorum, and Columbus Boychoir) and twelve top-priced soloists, including Tenors Richard Tucker and Jon Vickers, Soprano Eileen Farrell and Mezzo-Soprano Shirley Verrett-Carter. The Philharmonic was followed in later programs by the Boston, the Philadelphia and the Cleveland orchestras, by the New York Pro Musica, the Juilliard String Quartet...