Word: bernsteins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Edward R. Murrow interviews Jesse Owens, Leonard Bernstein...
Died. Aline Bernstein, 72, longtime top Broadway scene and costume designer (Reunion in Vienna in 1931, The Happy Time in 1949), longtime friend and confidante of the late Novelist Thomas Wolfe, model for Stage Designer Esther Jack in his novels The Web and the Rock and You Can't Go Home Again; after a long illness; in Manhattan...
Dallapiccola: Tartiniana (Ruth Posselt, violin; Columbia Symphony conducted by Leonard Bernstein; Columbia). Italy's most famed modernist in a mellow mood. Two of the four movements start with themes by 18th century Violinist-Composer Tartini, then gradually, smoothly warm up to entrancing modernity. All of the movements seem to weave Tartini's melodies serenely for a while, then get involved in the implications of their own patterns; at other times the old tunes appear in a kind of bas-relief against a background of alien dissonance. A fascinating composition...
...adds up to a sort of higher vaudeville-a short Leonard Bernstein opera, a short Tennessee Williams play, and Dancer Paul Draper. Nothing on the bill was fresh-minted for the occasion. Indeed, Williams' 27 Wagons Full of Cotton is eleven years old; and occasion is hardly the right word for the whole evening. But, helped by some talented performing, All in One is pleasantly unusual and varied...
...Composer Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti (TIME, June 23, 1952) twangs the rather snarled relations of a bored suburban couple. In its breakfast-table and business-day vignettes, it takes on some of the flatness of its subject matter. But its mockingbird passages-as when a trio hymns the joys of Scarsdale or Shaker Heights-are brighter, and it gets very bright and funny when Singer Alice Ghostley, while meaning to sneer at the movie she's seen, rhapsodically pants over...