Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...award in modern music and a $4,000 award for classical music at Brandeis University, both named for banjo-eyed Vaudevillian Eddie Cantor, who gave Fisher his first show-biz break nine years ago. Appointed advisers for the scholarships: Cantor for the modern, dynamic Conductor Leonard Bernstein for the classical...
...production, offered by the Harvard Opera Guild Workshop, is spirited and competent, even if the singers cannot quite cope with every difficulty in the score. Linnet Houle and Vivian Thomas, as the two rival prima donnas, are supported by John Leonard, Robert Scher and Thomas Glick, with string orchestra and piano. This afternoon's free repeat performance will provide you with a delightful forty-five minute interlude...
...news than he has been able to get from the sometimes capable but always highly subjective accounts of the few old hands, e.g., the Manchester Guardian's Alistair Cooke. Some of the newcomers have begun to paint the U.S. with verisimilitude; Joyce Egginton, in a profile of Leonard Bernstein in the London News Chronicle, described him as "an orchestral conductor who looks like a dark-haired Danny Kaye, dresses like Mao Tse-tung, gyrates like Elvis Presley, and is apt to treat his audiences like first-year musical students...
...percussion.'' Not long ago Composer Constant also found himself hearing tom-toms, marimbas, vibraphone and celesta. He committed these exotic cerebral sounds to paper, and last week a Parisian audience jammed into the Theatre des Champs-Elysées to hear the results, interpreted by Guest Conductor Leonard Bernstein and the French National Orchestra. Popular verdict: an exciting highlight in Composer Constant's promising young career...
Died. Rear Admiral Leonard B. Southerland, U.S.N., 53, commander of aircraft carriers in the Seventh Fleet; in the crash of a helicopter; on Okinawa...