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Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein raises his baton this week on CBS's Omnibus to conduct Handel's Messiah. But a great many of his viewers are certain to be disappointed. They would much rather hear talented Lennie Bernstein talk about music than play or conduct...
...Bernstein, 37, has built his fanatic audience in a series of three Omnibus programs. In the first he discussed the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, and used an orchestra to trace the changes Beethoven made in the movement and patterning of his music. Says Bernstein: "Nobody knew whether people would sit still for 45 minutes on a subject like this. I had a notebook full of Beethoven's rejected sketches. We put them back into the symphony to see how it would have sounded if he hadn't been so determined on perfection...
Omnibus (Sun. 5 p.m., CBS). Com poser Leonard Bernstein on The Art of Conducting...
Seven men from the Wigg East team will play their Yale counterparts today at 2:30 p.m. in New Haven. The team will consist of Captain Chuck Olin, Tom Cottle, Lyman Wood, Marshall Cogan, Dave Bernstein, Allan Blinkin and Lindsey Coolidge. Dave Weinstock and Dave Gately, although playing every game in the intramural season, will be unable to play in the Eli match...
...Lark. Jo Miclziner's light-settings provide a pervarding modernistic tone. Although the effects are flashy, they are never offensive. In lieu of sets, Mr. Mielziner may have as many as three clashing colors splashed on stage at one time, but he never distracts attention from the players. Leonard Bernstein's incidental choral music, of which much is modal, seems equally impressive...