Word: bernstein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...notes but bordering on melodrama, describes Schoenberg's raging desperateness as the Jews flee Nazist Warsaw, and his resumption of the Jewish faith in the face of this tragic modern Diaspora. This profound personal utterance seems to suffer from the same type of self-consciously tortured text which reduced Bernstein's Kaddish symphony to almost complete rhetorical vacuousness. The performance was frenetic rather than impassioned, especially in the closing Hebrew prayer Sh'ma Yisroel, but since the work is one organized explosion of dismay suffused with the solace of Schoenberg's fund of religious faith, the somewhat overwrought vitality...
Harvard began the romp with a sweep in the 35-pound weight throw. Charlie Ajootian hurled the lead 56'8" for first, and sophomore Ed Nosal and senior Dave Bernstein were second and third respectively...
...Visiting Committee of the Music Department is chaired by a member of the Board of Overseers, Gardner Cowles '25. Members include Leonard Bernstein '39; Alan Jay Lerner '40; Mrs. Henry Saltonstall; John W. Green '28, a Hollywood song-writer; and Donald J. Grout '35, author of a Music 1 textbook...
Contribute your essays, poems, and short fiction to "The Harvard Yard Journal." Bring manuscripts to C. K. Bernstein, Thayer 4, or place in box in the Union basement...
...Leonard Bernstein has once more been quoted as saying "the symphonic form is dead" [Aug. 30]. As one of the composers whose symphonies he has championed, I have never heard him utter these words; I have only read them and they have always irritated me. He has never clarified this spurious statement, has himself composed in this form. His repeated performances of my symphonies, the symphonies of Copland, Schuman, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich and many others are sufficient evidence that he is quite wrong. Bernstein's statement is paradoxical, but as long as he himself composes in the symphonic...