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...year he had allotted himself, Lennie was able to devote only about two months to composition. He left his composing hideaway in Mexico to rush to Conductor Serge Koussevitzky's deathbed last summer, then agreed to conduct at Tanglewood and teach in Koussevitzky's place at the Berkshire Music Center. Lennie also substituted for Charles Munch as conductor of the Boston Symphony when Munch fell ill last winter. And he accepted a new double assignment: professor of music and director of the school of creative arts at Brandeis...
When it was all over, Lennie Bernstein had scored a personal success, but his own problem remained to be solved: he was as determined as ever to take a year off for composing, but he cannot start until he finishes out the summer at Tanglewood. "Sometimes," he said, reflecting on his multiple career, "I wonder...
Although Monteux is 77, he does not intend to stop conducting. He will lead the Boston Symphony, as associate conductor with Charles Munch, during a European tour next month. And this summer he will conduct in Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium, at Tanglewood and at Chicago's Ravinia Park, and run his conducting school in Maine. He is booked at home & abroad straight through the spring...
...resist friends or acquaintances who plead for her time or her help. When the late Serge Koussevitsky urged her to do a recorded version of the musical fairy tale, Peter and the Wolf, she hesitated only long enough to be sure he was serious before hustling obediently off to Tanglewood to synchronize herself with the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...comes from Portland, Ore.; Second Violinist Robert Koff, 32, from Los Angeles; Violist Raphael Hillyer, 37, from Hanover, N.H., and Cellist Arthur Winograd, 31, from Manhattan. Mann and Koff knew each other at the Juilliard conservatory; Winograd and Hillyer, a onetime violinist in the Boston Symphony, met at Tanglewood. After the war (all but Hillyer were in the Army), they got together and persuaded Juilliard President William Schuman that they were exactly what he wanted for a resident quartet...