Word: bernsteins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even Leonard Bernstein has to rest sometimes. So the man whom Igor Stravinsky once likened to a musical department store announced that he will take a year off from conducting in order to write new theater pieces. Among his main projects: a musical version of the dybbuk, the Jewish legend of a wandering evil spirit that seeks to possess its victims. Bernstein's vacation won't begin until September 1973, by which time he will need it even more. His imminent schedule includes stints at the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony...
...gung-ho." A former TIME writer who joined Newsweek in 1955, he will not say how long he intends to occupy the editor's office this time. But whenever he gets tired of it, two other TIME alumni will be waiting in the wings: Managing Editor Lester Bernstein and Executive Editor Robert Christopher...
Jittery after a jostling by crowds in Europe, Mrs. Jacqueline Onassis avoided last year's gala opening of the Kennedy Center in Washington and the world premiere of Mass, the work she had asked Leonard Bernstein to write for the occasion. But when Mass was presented again in Washington, she came, smiled brightly through a standing ovation and pronounced the center "beautiful, just beautiful." Next day, on the fourth anniversary of the death of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, she made the painful trip to Arlington National Cemetery and stood with tears in her eyes while Kennedy family members took...
With mixed feelings of "joy and paranoia," Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein, 53, appeared before a tough, critical audience last week: the National Press Club in Washington. To the newsmen, the protean showman defended his Mass-the liturgical theater piece he wrote to open the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts last September. One of the many misconceptions he wanted to clear up, said Lenny, was the idea that Rose Kennedy hated the composition. "The only quotes I ever read of hers in the press were 'I liked Hair better' and 'Don't hug me so hard...
...moving into the vacuum with all the muscle its considerable financial resources will permit. Among the bonuses this may yield to the opera buff: DGG is said to be negotiating to record the Met's new Carmen next September, with Marilyn Home in the title role and Leonard Bernstein conducting...