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...titles above would indicate. Among their ranks are not only Eliot, Aiken, and DeVoto, but George Lyman Kittredge, Charles Townsend Copeland, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Wallace Stevens, Van Wyck Brooks, e.e. cummings, Robert Hillyer, Malcolm Cowley, and James Laughlin. In the dramatic line, John Mason Brown, Lincoln Kirstein, and Leonard Bernstein were Advocateers. A few have even become political luminaries: Teddy and F.D. Roosevelt, as well as A.M. Schlesinger, Jr. Such a list is certainly a telling justification for the Advocate's existence. That the alumni themselves feel that they owe much to the magazine is proven by their continued allegiance...
Plumbers & Sociologists. Next Bernstein tackled "The Jazz World," and held viewers spellbound with an intense, often intricate and always absorbing explanation of syncopation. He followed it with another 45-minute show on "The Art of Conducting" that answered for thousands the question of what-if anything-the baton-wielder is doing while the orchestra plays. Omnibus and Bernstein were staggered by the response: "We had letters from plumbers, sociologists, little children and old men. Apparently, hundreds of people identified themselves with the conductor, standing in front of their screens with rulers and pencils in their hands and giving the beat...
...teacher, Bernstein is intense yet detached, dedicated yet wellrounded. He is contemptuous of the cult of "music appreciation," and thinks that love of music should be as complex and emotional as love itself. "We live in our emotions," he argues, "and that is the area a teacher must reach-and as soon as possible. If you can strike an emotional spark, then you can teach anything...
Medea in Milan. Harvard-bred (A.B., '39) Leonard Bernstein first flashed into musical prominence as a composer (Fancy Free, Trouble in Tahiti, On the Town), and is regarded as one of the most talented of U.S. conductors. Two years ago, with five days' preparation, he directed Milan's La Scala orchestra in the seldom-staged Medea of Cherubini, starring Maria Callas. To composing and conducting, he added teaching at Tanglewood and Brandeis University, spends his spare moments with his wife, Actress Felicia Montealegre, and three-year-old daughter. He worries that he may be scattering his talent...
...like to try and spell out what makes South Pacific so much the product of our time and country . . ." At this point, Bernstein is apt to drop his expressive hands helplessly and conclude: "There are millions of things I want to do. I'm afraid there just isn't time for all of them...