Word: bernsteins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent article on who Deep Throat might be [May 3], you said that I was a possibility. The idea is so bizarre that I must laugh. First, I would not have been a source for Woodward and Bernstein if I could have been. Second, I was not privy to any secret information about Watergate of any kind. Third, at the time the supposed Deep Throat was operating out of Washington garages, I was living in Santa Cruz, Calif...
Violinist Yehudi Menuhin first performed there as a prodigy of eleven; Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein once played piano in its dance studios for $1 an hour. Last week both were back at Carnegie Hall, along with the New York Philharmonic and a contingent of famous colleagues, for a fund-raising gala to celebrate the hall's 85th anniversary. Among the performers: Violinist Isaac Stern, Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Pianist Vladimir Horowitz, who had come to play at his first nighttime concert in 35 years. The program, which cost up to $ 1,000 per ticket...
...Tired after a day of shopping, Laureen Bernstein, now 24, a Brooklyn bank teller, was about to leave a local branch of the Korvettes department store chain when a store detective grabbed her from behind. "Hey, you!" he shouted. "What are you doing? What's wrong?" asked the terrified Bernstein. She told psychiatrists later that she feared she was about to be thrown into a car, stabbed or raped. The store detectives suspected Bernstein of being an accessory of two Puerto Rican girls they had apprehended earlier for shoplifting. Even though no stolen merchandise was found on Bernstein...
...every billing it was the musical that could not miss. At the top of the credit lines for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue were two of the arts' most potent names: Lyricist Alan Jay Lerner of My Fair Lady and Camelot fame and West Side Story Composer Leonard Bernstein. The show, about the lives and times of 13 early Presidents, was a Bicentennial natural, and the Coca-Cola Co. eagerly footed the $1.2 million cost of bringing a 45-member cast and a 30-piece orchestra together for five weeks of rehearsals in New York and tryouts in Philadelphia and Washington...
Lerner sent an outline of his idea to Bernstein. Their only previous collaboration, in 1957, had been on a new Harvard hymn, but Bernstein agreed to write the 1600 score. After five weeks of rehearsal in New York, the show opened in Philadelphia to devastating reviews and the play doctoring began immediately. Jerome Robbins and Mike Nichols traveled to Philadelphia and quickly fled. Director Corsaro left "by mutual agreement" with the company. Bernstein reportedly wanted to deal himself out too, but was persuaded to stay...