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...better luck than Nixon," said Conductor Leonard Bernstein, "but then he's in a different line of business. All we did was play music." The New York Philharmonic was completing a 38-concert, twelve-country tour of Latin America that lit a fire of good will from one end of the continent to the other. Back home this week. Conductors Bernstein and Dimitri Mitropoulos and the 107 members of the orchestra were to be hailed at New York's city hall for a job superbly done...
...Bernstein had started out with a few doubts: "I was worried because a strange conductor always has more pull with the orchestra, and I was just the boy next door they'd known for years." But Lennie and the orchestra hit it off. With programs of Haydn, Brahms and Beethoven, larded with easily digestible Ravel and Gershwin and spiced with occasional contemporary works, the tour was a hit from the start...
...judges: Rudolf Serkin, George Szell, Leonard Bernstein, Abram Chasins, Nadia Rei-senberg, Alexander Schneider, Lillian Fuchs, Leopold Mannes, Arthur Judson, Eugene Istomin. -Born Lucy Hickenlooper in San Antonio, she changed her name to cater to the U.S. predilection for foreign musical artists. From 1911, until her divorce in 1923, she also answered to the name of Mrs. Leopold Stokowski...
...flashing back and forth through her persecution, trial and condemnation, revealed the basic weakness in the libretto by France's late Poet-Ambassador (to the U.S. in 1927-33) Paul Claudel: its tendency to reduce a profound, many-faceted conflict to charcoal black and Rinso white. But Bernstein gave the music the surging, evocative reading that its subject demands, kept a near-perfect balance be tween orchestra, soloists and his acres of chorus. Actress Montealegre gave her reading with luminous conviction and a fine sense of tandem with the score. Both got an ovation before they hustled...
...TIME, Oct. 8, 1956). Underwritten by $105,000 from the Ford Foundation, the season spans the last 20 years of U.S. operatic production with a repertory drawn from more than 200 submitted works. Among the composers represented were such veterans as Douglas Moore (The Ballad of Baby Doe), Leonard Bernstein (Trouble in Tahiti), Gian Carlo Menotti (The Medium, The Old Maid and the Thief), plus such lesser-known names as Vittorio Giannini (The Taming of the Shrew) and Mark Bucci (Tale for a Deaf...