Word: bernstein
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finally, he tried flattery. Extreme flattery. "What you've done here is just like what Woodward and Bernstein were doing with Watergate...
...with a debut in the musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale and springboarded to the movies after her starring role in 1964's Funny Girl. In 1985 she scored an enormous success with The Broadway Album, a collection of songs by such composers as Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein. Her non-Broadway hits have never been very credible, and they've proved to have the shelf life of sugary foodstuffs on convenience-store shelves. It's hard to listen to You Don't Bring Me Flowers, her 1977 duet with Neil Diamond, without thinking of eight-track tapes...
...their home in San Clemente, California, seeing almost no one except her family, especially the four grandchildren (Julie and David Eisenhower have three children, Tricia and Edward Cox have a son), whom she adored. In 1976 she suffered her first stroke. Her family put the blame on the Woodward-Bernstein book The Final Days, as if reading about the nightmare was worse than living it. She recovered from that stroke and another after they moved to New York in 1980. Beset by emphysema and then lung cancer, she grew ever more frail. Last week, after 81 years, the life that...
Second on the program was Golijov's "Yiddishbbuck," a three movement elegy inspired, according to the program notes, by apocrybhal and Franz Kafka, but commemorating Isaac Bashevis Singer, Leonard Bernstein and concentration camp victims. Such program notes gave a fair indication of the kind of piece that ensued, which seemed all gesture and no substance. (Golijov was present and made obligatory obsequious composers stage appearance, almost refusing to bow in his attempt to give the performers all the credit.) Also disappointing was cobaidulina...
...looked a little puzzled with the letter," Bernstein said. She said Clark remarked, "Pretty good signature there," and then jokingly asked if the letter was dated April...