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Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein raises his baton this week on CBS's Omnibus to conduct Handel's Messiah. But a great many of his viewers are certain to be disappointed. They would much rather hear talented Lennie Bernstein talk about music than play or conduct...
Bernstein, 37, has built his fanatic audience in a series of three Omnibus programs. In the first he discussed the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, and used an orchestra to trace the changes Beethoven made in the movement and patterning of his music. Says Bernstein: "Nobody knew whether people would sit still for 45 minutes on a subject like this. I had a notebook full of Beethoven's rejected sketches. We put them back into the symphony to see how it would have sounded if he hadn't been so determined on perfection...
...Jazz World," and held viewers spellbound with an intense, often intricate and always absorbing explanation of syncopation. He followed it with another 45-minute show on "The Art of Conducting" that answered for thousands the question of what-if anything-the baton-wielder is doing while the orchestra plays. Omnibus and Bernstein were staggered by the response: "We had letters from plumbers, sociologists, little children and old men. Apparently, hundreds of people identified themselves with the conductor, standing in front of their screens with rulers and pencils in their hands and giving the beat and tempo. Even musicians liked...
...talent: "Diversification means you can arrive brand-new and fresh at each undertaking, but you may also lose your line of development, especially in composing." Now his problem of too many skills is further threatened by his emergence as a TV performer. Bernstein is committed to two more Omnibus appearances this season, but his lively mind teems with dozens of projects: "I want to examine Bach and Mozart. People are always saying to me: 'Mozart is so tinkly; how can he be great?' If I can take them into his music, I think I can give them...
Wide, Wide World (Sun. 4 p.m., NBC). "Preparations for Christmas." Omnibus (Sun. 5 p.m., CBS). Eartha Kitt in Salome...