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...wrong. You've got to give Comden, Green and Bernstein credit for taking on something as contemporary as New York at a time when there were those among the "realists" of the Broadway musical theater who had retreated to beautiful mornings in Oklahoma, dreamy isles in the South Pacific and clambakes in Maine. As musical history, On the Town is fascination, full of echoes of Gershwin (like the oddly operatic opening number, "I Feel Like I'm Not Out of Bed Yet") and campy vulgarizations of Porter (like the lyrics of "I Can Cook Too") as well as premonitions...
...other men listed by the Justice as possible candidates are: Marvin Bernstein, dean of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton; Wilbur Cohen, former Secretary of HEW; Joseph Kauffman, former dean of students at Brandeis; Leo Levin, vice-president of the University of Pennsylvania; and Herman Stein, provost of Western Reserve College...
...need to face change and the future. Boulez is the result. A relative newcomer to the international conducting ranks, he is also largely untried in the familiar repertory of late 18th century and 19th century staples, so that his ascendancy poses a calculated risk. His predecessor, the universal Leonard Bernstein, coaxed the orchestra and its program well into the 20th century. If such progress is to continue, Boulez is definitely the man to lead...
...unanswered by opening night was how the opera house sounded. As proved by the $3,000,000 already spent to improve Philharmonic Hall at New York City's Lincoln Center, acoustics can involve the pocketbook as much as the ear. Mass proved nothing about the opera house, since Bernstein relied heavily on amplification-body mikes for most of the soloists, hand mikes for the rock singer, floor mikes to pick up the dialogue. But as the week rolled on, it became apparent that the Kennedy Center sounded infinitely better than it looked...
Several days after the great moment, Leonard Bernstein was sick in bed in his Washington hotel suite. He looked gaunt, and was exhausted from more than a year's work on the Mass in places as far-flung as Montauk, Tel Aviv and Vienna, and by a final bout of rehearsing that over the past few months has permitted him only three hours' sleep a night. Disappointed but not discouraged by the critical reception of his Mass, Bernstein was overwhelmed by the passionate response he felt it had stirred among the audience in general. On this and other...