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Harvard, like an understanding professor giving a student a paper deadline extension, has arranged for Leonard Bernstein '39, Norton Professor of Poetry, to deliver his lecture series six months late...
Though he will give his lectures on six Tuesday evenings beginning October 9, Bernstein will return as planned to Eliot House April 8 for six weeks to repeat his Fall routine of "rapping" with students and going to classes. He would say only that technical reasons caused the postponement...
...Norton lectureship, established in 1925, has gone to a different lecturer "nearly every year," according to Levin. Bernstein's predecessors in music have included Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copeland, Paul Hindeminth, and Roger Sessions...
Normally, the Norton lecturer is required to be in residence for the academic year. When Harvard offered to reduce the term of residence to 12 weeks each term, Bernstein said he could not accept because of his professional committments. "But when they made it six weeks, I couldn't refuse," he said...
...Bernstein, for many years the musical director of the New York Philharmonic, is the composer of "West Side Story," "Candide," "Wonderful Town," several symphonies and recently "Mass...