Word: bernsteins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mozart's Requiem at the "Mostly Mozart Festival" in Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall last week. A remarkably mature performance, it confirmed an opinion that has been growing since late last fall: at 25, Thomas is perhaps the most naturally gifted young conductor to come along since Leonard Bernstein more than a generation...
Many a first-rate pianist has taken up conducting as a career. For Leonard Bernstein, the late George Szell and Daniel Barenboim, it was largely a matter of having a large and effusive talent-or sheer ambition-that simply had to spread into other fields. When Pianist Leon Fleisher took the podium last week at Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall, however, it was a case of dire necessity. Though he was once the foremost pianist of his generation, his right hand has been partly crippled since 1965, and he is trying to establish himself in a new career...
...13th on the list-just two places ahead of George Gershwin. Five years ago, Ives barely made it at all. The list of "since 1940" music is mainly notable for its featherweight: Richard Rodgers easily outpoints Francis Poulenc, and thanks to Candide and West Side Story, Leonard Bernstein takes precedence over Igor Stravinsky...
Kirchner the conductor, like Kirchner the composer, is an exuberant, vibrant artist. He seems a little of everything-his precise hand movements reminiscent of Bruno Walter's, his body moving and even leaping off the ground with an enthusiasm like Bernstein's, his hair like Barbirolli's flowing mane-an artist totally consumed by his art. Yet he has nowhere sacrificed accuracy for emotion, and the clarity of his music, like the quality of his orchestra, is outstanding...
...Lenny Bernstein's parties, the face in the crowd looked very familiar. Where had he seen that dark beauty before? Peter Diamond, director of the Edinburgh International Festival and a man notorious among his friends for forgetting names, decided on the classic male approach. "Excuse me," he said, "but I think I know you. Haven't we met before?" A look of utter incredulity swept over the features that are engraved on the minds of millions of male moviegoers. "The name," came the reply, "is Elizabeth Taylor...