Word: bernsteins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year's orcestra promises to be the finest at the College in recent years, according to Weiss. Conductor Stanger has studied with Koussevitsky and Leonard Bernstein, and is now a student of Richard Burgin (assistant conductor of the B.S.O.). Besides conducting the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Mr. Stanger is also assistant conductor of the New England Symphony...
Chin Tufts & Bravos. Last week, after concerts by the U.S.'s flamboyant Leonard Bernstein (conducting from the piano), the redoubtable Sir Thomas Beecham and France's crack Loewenguth String Quartet, one performance stood out as loftily as old Edinburgh Castle itself. In King's Theatre, when the curtain went down on the Glyndebourne Opera Company's new and magnificent production of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, the audience leaped to their feet, mixed their applause with wave after wave of bravos...
...Choreographer Balanchine himself, whose ballets are not often seen in Britain (the Sadler's Wells does only one, his nine-year-old Ballet Imperial). His flowing Serenade (1935), fluidly danced, got a big hand. So did Jerome Robbins' new (1950) Age of Anxiety, danced to Leonard Bernstein's jazzy symphony score. By the time the first-night curtain went down on another Balanchine number, his piston-precise Symphony in C, the audience had been captured. The whole company had to skip on & off stage for 17 curtain calls...
Sixteen years later the picture was reversed and Thompson was teaching Leonard Bernstein, Lucas Foss and others at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He went to run the Curtis after teaching at Wellesley and California, several trips to Europe on Guggenheim fellowships, and a two year tour of thirty American colleges gathering music for a book, "College Music...
...graduates of the University: Representative John F. Kennedy '40 (Dem.-Mass.); conductor Leonard Bernstein '39; Dr. Francis D. Moore '35, Moseley Professor of Surgery at the Medical School; James L. Madden '31, president of Hollingsworth and Whitney Company; Luther A. Breck, Jr. '34, president of Joseph Breck and Sons Corp.; and Edward B. Hanify, 1938 Law School graduate and general chairman of the 1950 Boston Community Fund compaign...