Word: bernstein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short, conducting is increasingly becoming a field for younger, more vibrant men-all the more so because of the overriding example of Leonard Bernstein. His projection and box-office appeal have made him as much the model for conductors in his era as Toscanini was in his, although, as Bernstein nears 50, even he is slackening his frenetic pace somewhat. In this image-conscious culture, every orchestra wants its conductor to have some of Bernstein's incalculable personality force-what Conductor Charles Munch calls the "magic emanation" that can lift a conductor's performances above the mere exercise...
...Toronto Symphony's Seiji Ozawa, 32, a Japanese and the only Oriental besides Mehta to flourish on Western podiums, is no less a dynamic charmer than Mehta. A favorite of young people, he sports a Beatle hairdo and a free-swinging style in the manner of Leonard Bernstein. Sometimes he indulges his expressive stick technique to paint panels of sheer sound, but he can also propel vibrant, vivacious performances as notable for their substance as for their sheen...
...since Oklahoma have, almost to a one, been distinguished by unusual or untried locales: Finian's Rainbow in a mythical Southland; Guys and Dolls in and around the classier sewers of New York city; Pajama Game in a factory; West Side Story as close to the ghetto as Leonard Bernstein could manage without being overcome by the stench; and How to Succeed several hundred feet above lower Manhattan...
...schools -standing almost without peer among public schools. With an equal reverence for strict discipline and classical learning, Boston Latin could claim at least some part in the later success of a line of "old boys" that stretched all the way from Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Kennedy and Leonard Bernstein. But after World War II, as the city school system deteriorated, Boston Latin went into a sharp decline, and for a while seemed destined to become just another inept high school. Now, in a striking recovery, it once again ranks among the nation's best-largely because...
...there was also much that had not changed. In the 1850s, American composers filled the press with complaints that the Philharmonic was bypassing native creativity in favor of established European classics. The composers are still complaining. And last week Bernstein explained why. The "natural growth and decline" of symphonic literature, he said, "has left us with a great repertory of masterpieces from the 18th and 19th centuries, but only a few from the 20th. The orchestra today is booming as never before, but as a museum. The conductor today is a kind of curator...