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...something that has to be recognized, and the Boston Symphony decided to celebrate the two hundredth anniversary of Beethoven's birth last week with a five day series of concerts, concentrating on the symphonies and piano concertos. The ailing music director, William Steinberg, brought in two distinguished conductors, Leonard Bernstein and Max Rudolf, and an equally fine pianist, Rudolf Serkin. As the week began, the prospects looked good...
...skillfully constructed a great performance by avoiding most of the characteristic failings of his contemporaries. He never forced his pace, the way Leinsdorf did. He made the orchestra forget the influence of his predecessor, and got it to produce a clarity of tone, especially in the strings, which Bernstein might well have envied. The concert definitely belonged to Rudolf and the listener went away feeling that the aging conductor had made the BSO perform beyond its normal capabilities...
...Janice Bernstein is a disillusioned idealist. "People like myself lived in a dream world that we could have a good, integrated neighborhood," she says. "Now I have to drive my boy to a movie he's walked to all his life. It's wrong to lump them all together. My black neighbors on the street are very nice. Everyone's out with a broom. They want us to stay, but it's heartbreaking because we're going to lose each other. You can't force integration down people's throats, because it hasn...
After leading the Israel Philharmonic through a performance of Beethoven's "Eroica," visiting Conductor Leonard Bernstein exclaimed "I love her!" and clasped Golda Meir in an embrace that nearly knocked the Premier off her feet. "Not even Jacqueline got one like that," noted one Israeli. Mrs. Meir, 71, giggled and wore a wide grin for the rest of the evening...
...Leonard Bernstein: Beethoven's Nine Symphonies (8 disks; $35.98; Columbia). A great many complete sets of the Nine already exist: Klemperer, Karajan, Leinsdorf, Ormandy, Toscanini, Walter. But Bernstein's is the newest, and as a Beethoven interpreter he is both fiery and energetic, qualities highly necessary to this music. Calmer moments (as in the "Pastoral") now and then take on a tense, leashed-down quality that make a listener unnecessarily impatient for the storm to come. Particularly recommended to those who see Beethoven as a man with thunder in his eyes and lightning flashing from his fingertips...