Word: bernstein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...separate the facts from the legends about Tallulah proved in many instances to be virtually impossible, although Bernstein and Miss Sulzberger interviewed dozens of producers, stage managers, actors, writers, etc., and TIME correspondents throughout the U.S. and Europe talked to scores of her friends, enemies, and theatrical associates. It became quite clear that her friends regard Tallulah as an institution. They were frank, fair and helpful, and they did their best to augment the Bankhead legend. For example, her sister Eugenia, in discussing Tallulah's disputed age, is said to have said: "Every time Tallulah takes off a year...
...rugged men of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra had just played seven concerts in eight days, but when Conductor Leonard Bernstein called for volunteers, 35 stepped forward. Crowded into two dusty buses, they crossed the Negeb desert to give the battle-scarred Old Testament town of Beersheba the first symphony concert of its history...
...Beersheba, the musicians played a program of Mozart, Beethoven and Gershwin to 1,000 soldiers who overflowed the benches, squatted in the sand, or sat on the flat roofs of surrounding Arab houses. Conducting while played the piano sitting on a chair balanced on piles of flat rocks, Bernstein felt the chair slipping away from him, rose to a half-stance, and continued to play the Rhapsody in Blue while the first violinist propped the chair up again...
Recently, Bernstein took off by car on a lone trip to the shell-shattered village of Negba to give a piano recital for women and children who had just returned to the village. The recital had to be canceled because in the excitement no one had arranged for a piano...
This week, Lennie Bernstein finished his eighth week as guest conductor, and made ready to return to Manhattan in time to attend the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's benefit concert for the Israel orchestra on Dec. 7. He had enjoyed every minute of his second season of sashaying around Israel. Said he: "I really thought I was bringing Mozart to the desert. But I found it already there...