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...Weber Overture to Oberon, a bit of mindless romanticism that was just good fun. Compared to Oberon, Ravel's Sheherazade was romanticism run amok. The Weber was a perfect companion piece to the concert's opener, Shivaree by this year's occupant of the Norton Poetry Chair, Leonard Bernstein. Sporting a brass choir that practically made the Sanders Theater stage sag with the weight, the massed percussion and brass charged through a work that begs to be labeled distilled West Side Story. Bernstein's music is accessible without sacrificing musical integrity, a combination that eludes most contemporary composers, nearly...
...reporters and writers who dug beneath the bleak surface to uncover new material and insights. The greatest impact was probably made by the Knight Newspapers' Clark Hoyt, who unearthed Tom Eagleton's medical history. Laurels also go to the Washington Post's investigative team of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, young reporters who diligently pursued the Watergate affair and, during much of October, made daily national headlines with their findings. Other outstanding performances...
This term, Bernstein said, he plans to "become a student again," auditing meeting with students, and discussing his ideas on poetry with students and Faculty members so as to "put some of my tentative through Harvard very exacting mill...
...almost rink-or-swim time," Bernstein said. "It's places like Harvard that can make a difference...
Included in the series will be Leonard Bernstein '39, 1973 Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer: Kingman Brewster: Heywood Hale Broun: William F. Buckley, Jr.: Rev. Jesse L. Jackson: Roy Jenkins: Gloria Steinem and John D. Rockefeller...