Word: bernstein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...season, three of them in New York. In Paris, no fewer than ten concerts since January have featured Mahler compositions. And in Austria last week, the Vienna Festival wound up a monthlong, twelve-concert survey of nearly all of the composer's major works. Appropriately, leading Mahlerite Leonard Bernstein climaxed the festival by conducting the Vienna Philharmonic and a 100-voice Vienna Opera choir in an incisive, wrenchingly emotional performance of the Second Symphony ("The Resurrection"), which ends with the choral prophecy: "Thou shall surely rise again...
...Leonard Bernstein '39, conductor, composer, and instrumentalist, received a Doctor of Music degree. Honorary Doctor of Arts degrees went to Ben Shahn for his painting and graphic art, and to Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the Graduate School of Design...
...Leonard Bernstein, in a guest appearance with the Vienna Philharmonic (London), gives a turbulent interpretation that shows his affinity for Mahler. But Tenor James King sounds a bit forced, and the second soloist is a baritone instead of the usual, complementary mezzo-soprano. However, that baritone is Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, and his 30-minute Farewell is a perfect fusion of poetry and song...
...Tenor Fritz Wunderlich, whose promise was cut short by his accidental death last summer at 35. The orchestra sounds wonderfully clear and portentous, as though this were the last music to be played on the day of doom. Although Klemperer's playing time is actually shorter than Bernstein's, Angel chose to record the piece on three LP sides, filling the fourth with five Mahler songs...
Eugene Ormandy, with the Philadelphia Orchestra (Columbia), provides neither the intimacy of Bernstein nor the clarity of Klemperer; instead, he produces a brilliant, brassily dramatic sweep of his own, on which he carries his rich-voiced but not exceptional singers, Lili Chookasian and Richard Lewis...