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Explained Musician Bernstein (TIME, Feb. 4) of Lonely Men: "A combination of lament and quasi-football march...
...grads of Harvard, both distinguished in the world of music, popped up with pooled talents as the creators of two new songs for their alma mater. Musicomedy Librettist Alan Jay (My Fair Lady) Lerner ('40) and Master-of-Most-Musical-Trades Leonard Bernstein ('39) had cooked up a lugubrious ("Harvard! Harvard! Onward go . . .") Dedication and a satirical, possibly soulful, ditty titled The Lonely Men of Harvard. Excerpt from the latter...
...Leonard Bernstein '39 and Alan Jay Lerner '40 have collaborated on two pieces called "Songs for Harvard," which will be premiered at the joint Band-Glee Club Carnegie Hall concert this Saturday...
...first, entitled "Dedication," is a chorale; the other, "Lonely Men of Harvard," is termed by its authors a "lament-march." G. Wright Briggs Jr. '31, director of the Harvard Band, said that "Dedication" represented Bernstein in a musically elevated mood, whereas the other piece was "typically Broadway...
...musicians called hutzpa. This, for instance, he displayed when conducting (probably for the first time in his life) Puccini's La Boheme at La Scala and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the orchestra and chorus of Santa Cecilia in Rome. I did not make any remarks about Bernstein's hip movements while conducting Beethoven's Ninth...