Word: bernsteins
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...wrong. You've got to give Comden, Green and Bernstein credit for taking on something as contemporary as New York at a time when there were those among the "realists" of the Broadway musical theater who had retreated to beautiful mornings in Oklahoma, dreamy isles in the South Pacific and clambakes in Maine. As musical history, On the Town is fascination, full of echoes of Gershwin (like the oddly operatic opening number, "I Feel Like I'm Not Out of Bed Yet") and campy vulgarizations of Porter (like the lyrics of "I Can Cook Too") as well as premonitions...
However, the real test that will determine whether this revival to make it is director Field's choreography. A good deal of Bernstein's score is given over to programmatic dance sequences which Field (apparently in fear of comparisons with Jerome Robbins' original stagings) never fully utilizes. But, gee, Mr. Field, there are those of us who weren't even around to see the original so you do have give us something better than the listless mime that comprises the "Miss Turnstyle Ballet" and the tentative exercises that accompany "Lonely Town." As it now stands, On the Town needs...
...other men listed by the Justice as possible candidates are: Marvin Bernstein, dean of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton; Wilbur Cohen, former Secretary of HEW; Joseph Kauffman, former dean of students at Brandeis; Leo Levin, vice-president of the University of Pennsylvania; and Herman Stein, provost of Western Reserve College...
...need to face change and the future. Boulez is the result. A relative newcomer to the international conducting ranks, he is also largely untried in the familiar repertory of late 18th century and 19th century staples, so that his ascendancy poses a calculated risk. His predecessor, the universal Leonard Bernstein, coaxed the orchestra and its program well into the 20th century. If such progress is to continue, Boulez is definitely the man to lead...
Several days after the great moment, Leonard Bernstein was sick in bed in his Washington hotel suite. He looked gaunt, and was exhausted from more than a year's work on the Mass in places as far-flung as Montauk, Tel Aviv and Vienna, and by a final bout of rehearsing that over the past few months has permitted him only three hours' sleep a night. Disappointed but not discouraged by the critical reception of his Mass, Bernstein was overwhelmed by the passionate response he felt it had stirred among the audience in general. On this and other...