Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wake of his recent statement that Soviet composers like to rehash old Czarist motifs instead of going in new directions, Conductor Leonard Bernstein, lionized in the Soviet Union only three months ago, was drawn and quarter-noted in the newspaper Soviet Culture. It was also hinted that when the hit musical West Side Story is adapted for Soviet consumption, Bernstein's music for the show will be inaudible. Meanwhile, top Russian Composer Tikhon Khrennikov, who toured the U.S. last month (TIME, Nov. 23) with four other leading Soviet musicians, spoke out on his impressions of popular capitalist music. Most...
...next fifty years? Our predecessors did not seal up their choices, but we can still benefit by their wisdom and turn our attention to the leaders of the past. This June the world should hear again the names of those chosen in 1910: Charles Evans Hughes, Thomas Leonard Livermore, Richard Cockburn Maclaurin, John Pierpont Morgan, Sir John Murray, Horace Porter, George Walter Prothero, Theodore William Richards, Theobald Smith, John Eliot Thayer, Samuel Williston, Robert Archey Woods. James A. Sharaf...
...LEONARD E. BACH General Promotion Manager Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia...
...Angeles Philharmonic and the Hollywood Bowl knew, no symphony director had ever been picked in that fashion. Nevertheless, they turned the problem over to Manhattan's Ward Howell Associates, a firm that specializes in finding executives for business and industry. Ward Howell invited suggestions from Leonard Bernstein, Rudolf Bing, Sir Thomas Beecham, et al. With a list of 35 candidates to work from, the firm set up interviews, started vetting applicants on the basis of previous success, experience and age-35 to 50 preferred. The rigid combination of musical and managerial talent proved hard to find: one candidate...
Based on a novel by Leonard Wibberly (which I haven't read but have been informed is "deeper" than the movie) The Mouse tells the story of how Grand Fenwick--its economy threatened by an imitation American wine that drives its own product off the U.S. market--plots to make war on America, lose, and, as is customary with vanquished U.S. foes, be economically rehabilitated. The triad of hereditary rulers who run Grand Fenwick--creaking and Victorianesque Grand Duchess Glorianna, imperious Prime Minister Montjoy, and meek but good Tully Bascomb, a combination game warden and defense minister--are all played...