Word: bernsteins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That morning, two months ago, Judge Bernstein did listen-to stories of whippings, blackjackings and assorted cruelties that were hard to believe. But he decided to do some investigating. By last week, he had learned enough to haul Superintendent George R. Ridgway and five of his employees into court in one of the most sordid scandals Arizona has known in years...
...state of high excitement, two 17-year-old boys walked into the courthouse of Maricopa County, Arizona. Having served time at the state's "rehabilitation" school at Fort Grant, both had some hair-raising tales to tell. The man they asked to see was Charles C. Bernstein, who presided in the juvenile division of superior court. If anyone would listen to them, the "kids' judge" would...
After the Orchestra had gone through Der Wein to the conductor's satisfaction, everyone took fifteen minutes out for a cigarette. Then Bernstein returned to rehearse parts of Sibelius' Fifth Symphony. This time Bernstein tailored his gestures to the varied moods of the music. During strident passages he reached out toward the orchestra as if to grab handfuls of sound; during the lighter moments he bounced up and down and flapped his arms like a happy bird...
...clock musician's union curfew approached, it looked as if the audience might never learn how Bernstein plays and conducts Mozart's Concerto in E-flat major at the same time. Twenty minutes before the deadline, however, stage-hands wheeled a piano to the front of the stage, the conductor mounted the piano stool, and the Concerto began. Bernstein conducted, then played a few measures, then waved one hand while playing with the other, all the while chatting with members of the Orchestra. When both hands were occupied, he conducted with quick jerks of his head. He made only...
...rehearsal's end the audience cheered, the orchestra bravoed, and the members of the string section politely tapped their instruments with their bows. Mopping his brow, smiling, and smoothing out a few wrinkles in his turtle-necked sweater, Bernstein acknowledged the kudos and turned to leave. As the audience filed out through the doors, two little girls clambered onto the stage waving autograph books...