Word: leonards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tenth anniversary of his debut as a conductor (in Gian Carlo Menotti's The Consul). Although he has moved farther and faster than any other U.S. conductor in the last decade, Schippers shows little of the hungry will to succeed that has always characterized that earlier Wunderkind, Leonard Bernstein. Nor does Schippers have Composer-Conductor-Pianist Bernstein's determination to be a Renaissance man-about-music. When he decided to become a conductor (at 20), he abandoned promising careers as a pianist and composer, and he no longer yearns for those early loves...
...Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic (CBS, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). Despite the billing, the star is Composer Igor Stravinsky, making his U.S. TV debut as he conducts excerpts from his Firebird Suite. Canadian Pianist Glenn Gould plays the first movement of Bach's D-Minor Concerto, and Soprano Eileen Farrell sings the "Suicidio" aria from La Gioconda...
...Music, by Leonard Bernstein. The conductor-composer writes about music for the layman without sounding like a practitioner of what he calls the "Music Appreciation Racket...
...Young People's Concerts (CBS, 12:30-1:30 p.m.). Live, from Carnegie Hall. Leonard Bernstein conducts the New York Philharmonic...
...Music, by Leonard Bernstein. Using mostly scripts of his notable TV shows, the conductor-composer writes about music for the layman without sounding like a practitioner of what he calls the "Music Appreciation Racket...