Word: bernsteins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concentrated heavily on problems of the "Nixon shocker," as it is called in Japan. Nixon and Secretary of State William Rogers made elaborate personal gestures aimed at underscoring the basic Japanese-U.S. friendship. Rogers took the delegation of visiting Japanese and their wives to a performance of Leonard Bernstein's Mass at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Nixon invited them to a White House dinner later in the week...
Everyone came to see and to be seen. All the celebrities sat in their appointed places, reaping their expected applause as they entered. Onstage was a production by America's most flamboyant serious musician, Leonard Bernstein, who had written Mass and equipped the liturgy with a bold array of theatrical trimmings (see Music). But the audience was almost as big a show...
...Baines Johnson Library, designed by Gordon Bunshaft for the University of Texas campus in Austin, opened last spring. The other, the much-heralded John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, was created for Washington by Edward Durell Stone. It officially opens this week with a Mass by Leonard Bernstein, which he composed at the request of Jackie Kennedy Onassis. Together, the two buildings cost some $76 million, and they afford some unique evidence about official architectural taste...
...that sandbox, back in 1966, that he first wrote Surfs Up in collaboration with Van Dyke Parks (Song Cycle). Though Surf's Up was programmed by Leonard Bernstein on a TV special, Brian soured on the song. It was never commercially recorded, and, so the story went, Brian suppressed all taped copies. Last spring, after a four-year interval, a tape turned up in the Beach Boys' vault. Brian liked it again. "I have to admit, it's not bad," he said. And he rerecorded it for the new album...
...still unsurpassed for their particular blend of pathos and playfulness. Recently, Horenstein, 73, has begun recording regularly again with the London Symphony Orchestra and has now produced a lofty version of Mahler's hymn to nature that is more than a match for the honored interpretations by Leonard Bernstein, Erich Leinsdorf and Rafael Kubelik...