Word: bernsteins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Career No. 2, composition, has given the U,S. some of the brightest, most promising music of the past decade. He has written impressive serious scores (two symphonies, a large violin work and a short opera), three exciting musical comedies, as well as two ballets. Candide, Bernstein's latest Broadway show, is about to go under, after a stay of two months, because of a heavy-handed collaboration in the book department between Voltaire and Lillian Hellman (TIME, Dec. 10), but its witty score remains a triumph ? it is both melodious and satirical in a manner rarely surpassed since...
Career No. 3, the piano, almost gets lost between the other two, but Bernstein is a strongly talented pianist and probably could be a great one if he took the time (currently his piano repertory includes only half a dozen concertos). At Carnegie Hall last month, he played Ravel's Piano Concerto in G ? after five months without so much as five hours of practice ? while conducting the orchestra from the key board. The critics raved: "Miracle in music . . . absolute perfection...
...gifted and exciting teacher ? not only at home in all the world's music, but sensitively capable of relating it to the here and now. Two of his TV lectures have recently been released on records ? along with three other disks presenting Conductor, Com poser and Pianist Bernstein...
Career No. 5, the arduous business of being a celebrity, devours every minute of Bernstein's life that escapes the other four. Occasionally fortified with Dexamyl, he copes with interviews, conferences, half a dozen different agents, the management of his income (an estimated $100,000 last year), greenroom receptions and after-concert parties ? at which lie may call for a pot of caviar and talk lucidly for hours...
Behind the Glamourpuss. At 38, Leon ard Bernstein is not everybody, but very definitely Somebody ? a unique, perennial and very American Wunderkind. He is perfectly cast for the role. His lion head, swept with a sensuously flowing mane of black hair that in recent years has been greying at the temples, makes him seem a big man, even though he is stocky and only 5 ft. 8½ in. tall. The jaw is powerful, the skin rough and swart, the profile jutting and rudely masculine, the lips sensitively curved and humorous. At a glance from Bernstein, men recognize an extraordinary...