Word: bernstein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCarthy's entrance to Fenway Park was a magnificent spectacle. Precisely at 9:30 when Leonard Bernstein gave the cue a garage door opened in the "big green monster," as the center field wall is known. McCarthy's motorcade drove out of the wall across to left field where the grey-haired candidate emerged from his limousine surrounded by police...
They were Leonard Bernstein received a standing ovation; a woman sat in the previously all male press gallery; and a lot of bearded, beaded students saw the inside of the Park for the first time. Women in long black dresses walked by hot dog stands looking for their husbands as the Red Sox home's traditional brisk beer business fell off sharply...
...last week jock eyed to capture for themselves a bit of the vanished magic of the late Robert Kennedy. Despite much personal antipathy, some Kennedy forces have melded with Eugene McCarthy's. At a fund-raising hoopla in Manhattan staged by show-biz and artistic figures, Conductor Leonard Bernstein tried to re-orchestrate the R.F.K. melody for McCarthy: "What would Robert Kennedy be telling us now if he could? He would be warning us against passivity and irrationality, two evils that feed on each other, that might lead to the ugly triumph of the status...
...were other instruments." He made such rapid progress that he soon ranged beyond the conventional approach to the bass. He studied with a cellist, a pianist and even with Singer Jennie Tourel ("the greatest influence on my phrasing and musical ideas"). After a 1962 appearance in one of Leonard Bernstein's televised Young People's Concerts, he started on a career of recitals and solo stints with major orchestras. This required him to pad out the skimpy repertory for bass by transcribing the music of other instruments, from the archaic viola da gamba to the flute. More recently...
...Leonard Bernstein, D.F.A., conductor and composer. You are, in your astonishing versatility, a Renaissance man who lives in harmony with the promise and richness of his own times...