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...politicking was spirited and added to, not detracted from Conductor Samuel's "to, for, and by the people" approach to music. The latent snobbism reflected in your article is precisely what turns off so many potential supporters of fine music...
...whom Beverly regards as "her" director. She mugs, sings lying down, and once, in Buenos Aires, even danced the tango with six Argentine stagehands. All in the cause of easing tensions and clearing the way for creative work. "Beverly, was that an F and G in your part?" Conductor Aldo Ceccato once asked during a snarl-up in a recording session. "It could have been a K and L, the way I sang it," she replied...
George Pierce Baker '88, conductor of the famous 47 Workshop (of which Eugene O'Neill and Thomas Wolfe are alumni), fought in the teens and twenties to increase Harvard's concern and expenditure for drama. Baker wanted to expand his workshop in play writing and dramatic technique into a comprehensive drama school: Harvard would not have him, so he went to Yale where he inaugurated what is now considered the finest drama school in the country...
Leonard Bernstein '39--the famous pianist, composer and conductor--will be the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry...
Bernstein, who is currently Laureate Conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, will deliver a series of lectures on "The Art of Interpretation...