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ACCUSE LEONARD Bernstein of anything; you have to admit he is a great performer. He is one of the best conductors of our time, a popular composer, and surely the best known musician. A generation of amateur music lovers got their start with twelve years of nationally televised Young People's Concerts, and Bernstein is still just about the only conductor who can get prime network time for classical music. When he delivered the 1973 Norton Lectures, Harvard didn't have a theater large enough for the crowds of musicians and non-musicians who wanted to attend...
...When Bernstein finally walked out onto the stage of the Harvard Square Theater, graduates of the Young People's Concerts must have felt right at home. There was the familiar piano, and there was the Teleprompter with the script for the evening. Only the orchestra was missing, and that turned up later in the form of filmed musical examples starring the Boston Symphony and the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by the Maestro himself. Later in the week, each lecture was redone in front of the television cameras and broadcast over local public television...
...Columbia Masterworks has released the entire six-lecture series as a set of 17 records. They do so "with special pride," according to a squib on the back of the box. Columbia's promotion of the lectures has played heavily on Harvard's prestige, and on the prestige of Bernstein's predecessors in the Norton Poetry chair, who include Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, and e.e. cummings, as well as such composers as Stravinsky, Sessions, and Hindemith...
...there was another Jack Benny -less comic but considerably more generous. It was that trouper who traversed the country, raising some $6 million for America's leading orchestras. Thank yous were always abruptly dismissed. "Soloing with Leonard Bernstein," he liked to claim, "is like being on a desert island with Zsa Zsa Gabor and her boy friend. You feel you're not needed...
...special ceremony at George Wald's bedside, Leonard Bernstein '39 awards him the Nobel Peace Prize. Bernstein also awards himself the first Nobel Prize for Music. "It's about time," Bernstein remarks. Bok squelches merger rumors by selling Radcliffe to Libya. Libyan premier Col. Muammar Qadaffi closes the school down. "As the leader of progressive Third World anti-imperialist forces everywhere," Qadaffi announces, "I do not believe in education for women. Back to the bedroom." F. Skiddy von Stade comments...