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...Jennie Bernstein, a bright-eyed Boston housewife, was in a dither as she popped through the neighbor's back door with little Lennie in her arms. She put him down on the living-room rug, and the two women stood back to watch. What they saw made musical history. With the teetery determination of a puppy bound for breakfast, little Lennie pattered out on all fours into the next room and over to the piano. Seizing a leg of it, he hauled himself erect and planted a pinkie firmly on the nearest key. As the note struck, an expression...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Leonard Bernstein conducts works by Aaron Copland, Roy Harris and himself...
Gettysburg was a subject worthy to join the nuggets that Omnibus has been throwing into TV's current season of dross. In recent weeks it has served up a stunning Oedipus (TIME, Jan. 21), an illuminating and instructive essay on the dance by Agnes de Mille. and Leonard Bernstein's brilliant primer on modern music. To do this, Omnibus must virtually ignore the rest of TV's unabashed efforts to please at any price. Such is Omnibus' charter. So far it has spent some $8,900,000 of Ford Foundation funds in its five seasons (about...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. Soloist: Violinist Isaac Stern playing Prokofiev's Second Concerto...
...sits unobtrusively at the violin section's first desk of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, as he has for the past 36 years. At the end of a performance the conductor or guest soloist will shake his hand; if the guest happens to be someone as impulsive as Leonard Bernstein, he may even kiss his cheeks. For the rest, the concertmaster's job is done out of the public view, preparing the violins for the effects the conductor wants, marking the bowings, in general setting the tone of the orchestra...