Word: bernstein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Foil & Contrast. For the dedication, Chicago put on its festive best. The Chicago Symphony played Beethoven and Bernstein. Poet Gwendolyn Brooks read a poem to the effect, "Art hurts." In ringing tones, Mayor Richard Daley called the statue a "free expression" of the "vitality of the city." When at last the great blue veiling fell away (see opposite page), the crowd, estimated at upwards of 25,000, greeted it with an awed and respectful hush. Against the stark Miesian geometry of the Civic Center stood a majestic monument, its massive metal features-relieved by lacy rods-matching the building...
Most "original" musicals are cribbed from something else these days, but one exception this year is How Now, Dow Jones, a Wall Street flyer by Max Shu!man with tunes by Hollywood's Elmer Bernstein. There will also be slices of several lives: George M., with Cohan's own songs and Joel Grey (Cabaret) in the title role; Dumas and Son, with score based on themes by Saint-Saĕns; and Fagade, starring Vienna's Marisa Mell as Mata Hari and staged by Vincente Minnelli...
SIBERIA: A DAY IN IRKUTSK (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* NBC Moscow Bureau Chief Kenneth Bernstein tours a frontier city of 480,000 deep inside Siberia. Repeat...
THEODORE M. BERNSTEIN The New York Times Manhattan...
...Leonard Bernstein, D.MUS., conductor, composer...