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...latter course demands over-whelming ability. Virgil Thomson and Leonard Bernstein have tried it, but opinions vary on the quality and importance of their most serious works; Archibald Davison gave up composing entirely for education. Such men are often rewarded--and rightly so--with greater fame and financial security than their more esoteric colleagues, but in the process they may easily draw professional jealousy...
...Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic (CBS, 4-5:30 p.m.). Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex with a talk by Lenny on musical works based on literary classics...
...years as music director of the New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, 42, has suffered some critical lumps (too much globetrotting, excessive body English on the podium), but ticket sales have been the highest in history. Last week the grateful symphony expressed its appreciation by giving the versatile virtuoso a new seven-year contract-its longest since the turn of the century...
...showfolk, however, only two-thirds of the ticket-holders (some 6,000 people) turned up, and what with the traffic delays, the extravaganza got under way nearly two hours late. The biggest stars, of course, were the Kennedys themselves, and they had a fine time watching Conductor Leonard Bernstein, Ethel Merman, Milton Berle, Nat King Cole, Mahalia Jackson, Juliet Prowse, Sir Laurence Olivier, Jimmy Durante and a squad of others, including Brother-in-Law Peter Lawford...
...Leonard Bernstein '39, conductor of the New York Philharmonic, will visit the University late this spring as the guest of Quincy House. Bernstein, who is a member of Overseers' Visiting Committee on Music, plans to remain here for one or two nights...