Word: bernstein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Philharmonic Young People's Concert with Leonard Bernstein (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Claude Debussy's La Mer and Maurice Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé are the central examples in a program that asks: "What Is Impressionism?" Lenny answers...
...Esterhazys or a command performance by C.P.E. Bach for Frederick the Great. The assemblage of 153 guests was celebrated and varied. Not a single blue-ribbon American composer of serious music, from Aaron Copland to Alan Hovhannes, was missing from the guest list. The nation's leading conductors -Bernstein, Ormandy, Stokowski-were represented in white tie and tails, and all of the major music critics of New York and Washington were eagerly present. Said one: "The composers acted and talked like poor country cousins who had at last been let in the front door...
...Flood. The eminent musicians in the audience were staggered by the emotion of it all. Said Composer Gian Carlo Menotti: "Nowhere in Europe could you have an evening like this. English royalty entertains movie stars. Our President entertains artists." Obbligatoed Eugene Ormandy: "An inspiration to all of us." Leonard Bernstein, who sat with his head buried in his hands during most of the recital, was nearly overcome. "I was deeply moved by the entire occasion," he admitted, "not merely by the music of Casals but by the company in which it was played." Maestro Casals was the calmest...
...Association will meet Tuesday, Dec. 1, to consider the Council's legal analysis of the question and a contesting brief prepared by the American Civil Liberties Union. Barton J. Bernstein 4G, president of the Association, said last night that its members will probably again vote to condemn...
...ignore someone who is almost superb in several fields at once, e.g., a reasonably good pianist who can conduct orchestras and write musical comedies. Author Warren, who has won, and earned, Pulitzer Prizes for fiction (All the King's Men, 1946) and poetry (Promises, 1957), is the Leonard Bernstein of contemporary literature...