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...Bernstein and Schlesinger...
Culler is too often guilty of simply showing off the great names, when the pieces written by these men would probably embarrass them today. Leonard Bernstein '39 wrote music columns for the Advocate, so Culler has included one of them in which Bernstein knocked Columbia Records; he was given to college boy chattiness, concluding paragraphs with phrases like "end of tirade" or "Thus Spake Zarathustra." Arthur Schlesinger Jr. contributed political analyses, so a piece predicting a Republican comeback in 1940 has been re-printed. Presumably, the reader is supposed to be delighted with this gentle irony, amused by a posterior...
...Seventh Annual Young Performers' Program in which Leonard Bernstein conducts selections from Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, with four young pianists taking turns as soloist...
...LEONARD BERNSTEIN: CHICHESTER PSALMS (Columbia). For last summer's music festival in Chichester, England, Bernstein set to melody half a dozen Psalms, to be sung in Hebrew. The composition (TIME, July 23) is both literal and theatrical. "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord" calls forth a jazzy outburst. After a boy alto sings, "The Lord is my shepherd," a men's chorus, heavy with percussion, crashes in to ask "Why do the nations rage?" The 18-minute work is less tortured musically than Bernstein's Kaddish of 1963 and is well performed by the Camerata Singers...
...seven survivors, the worst part was waiting for the judges' decision. Their vigil came to an end last week when, after 45 minutes' deliberation, the ten judges, led by Leonard Bernstein, filed onto Carnegie Hall's stage to announce the winners...