Word: leonards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...price of $100 for the handsomely leather-bound set, this blockbuster has for weeks been listed as one of Billboard's bestselling classical albums. As the apotheosis of romanticism, Gustav Mahler is very much in vogue, and the most flamboyant of his latter-day champions is Leonard Bernstein, who has been building up this treasury of recordings with the New York Philharmonic for seven years. No one can argue with the power and variety of Bernstein's interpretations, but his gifts are most appropriate to the later symphonies, from the Fifth on, with their careening metaphysics, thorny textures...
Heroes in Seaweed. But can they bring it down? With some exceptions, the musical element in the performances of these troubadours is strangely disappointing. Words are what interests them, as is obvious from their undistinguished melodies. At best, the lyrics attain a gentle, sometimes mystical eloquence. Leonard Cohen, 33, an established Canadian poet and novelist (The Spice-Box of Earth, Beautiful Losers) who recently began performing his songs, tells of Suzanne, who "leads you to the river" and shows...
...strongest card, and if the more radical will settle for it, we can play it. However, if an ambiguous, fragmented demonstration like the last one occurs, the anti-war movement will lose, not gain, some of the serious attention it ought to have from persons not already convinced. Leonard Rieser...
...company changes material for each of its four weekend shows, so no particular performance can be predicted. Among the winners in its repertoire to date are a parody of Leonard Bernstein's condescending "Young People's Concerts," a wedding-night sex manual reading (sex is always funny), and an interview with Chancellor Kiesinger on the remnants of Nazism in Germany...
...experiment was performed with the help of three undergraduates--David C. Rice '67, Leonard H. Saphier '68, and Joseph H. Pleck '68--and a Soc Rel graduate student, Patrick T. Vilani, each of whom led a series of 12 discussion meetings. These leaders, all white, received only a minimum of training for the sessions, which were taped--with the participants' knowledge--and observed by members of the Soc Rel Department. Fifty high school students took part, some of whom were known teenage "gang" members...