Word: bernsteins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (New York Philharmonic, conducted by Leonard Bernstein; Columbia). Few top-drawer conductors are younger than Stravinsky's 1913 masterpiece, but Bernstein (b. 1918) is one of them. With all his life to absorb and assimilate the jagged rhythms and excruciating dissonances, he has achieved probably the most exciting performance of this work ever released on records. The blazing, barbaric recorded sound is up to the performance...
Born. To Charles Van Doren, 32, Columbia University English instructor, first Croesus (TIME, Feb. 11, 1957) of TV's gilt quiz show Twenty One, and Geraldine Ann Bernstein Van Doren, 24: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Elizabeth. Weight...
...better luck than Nixon," said Conductor Leonard Bernstein, "but then he's in a different line of business. All we did was play music." The New York Philharmonic was completing a 38-concert, twelve-country tour of Latin America that lit a fire of good will from one end of the continent to the other. Back home this week. Conductors Bernstein and Dimitri Mitropoulos and the 107 members of the orchestra were to be hailed at New York's city hall for a job superbly done...
...Bernstein had started out with a few doubts: "I was worried because a strange conductor always has more pull with the orchestra, and I was just the boy next door they'd known for years." But Lennie and the orchestra hit it off. With programs of Haydn, Brahms and Beethoven, larded with easily digestible Ravel and Gershwin and spiced with occasional contemporary works, the tour was a hit from the start...
When he completed his final concert, even indefatigable Conductor Bernstein was exhausted. Standing wrapped in Serge Koussevitzky's old black velvet opera cloak at the Rio airport, he signed a last round of autographs. "It's over now," he said limply. "It'll cost the U.S. Government about $250,000, less than one jet. But millions of people heard an American orchestra and liked...