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...crucial question on the poll, according to President Helen Bernstein, will be the one concerned with prospective attendance. "We are looking for a clear majority of affirmative answers," Miss Bernstein explained...
...Brandeis' best divisions will probably be its School of Music, according to Sachar. This school, so far only in the paper stage, will be developed under the guidance of Serge Koussevitsky, ex-director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein. A fund-raising group that calls itself the "Friends of the School of Music" already has formed to give the music division its start...
This year's orcestra promises to be the finest at the College in recent years, according to Weiss. Conductor Stanger has studied with Koussevitsky and Leonard Bernstein, and is now a student of Richard Burgin (assistant conductor of the B.S.O.). Besides conducting the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Mr. Stanger is also assistant conductor of the New England Symphony...
Chin Tufts & Bravos. Last week, after concerts by the U.S.'s flamboyant Leonard Bernstein (conducting from the piano), the redoubtable Sir Thomas Beecham and France's crack Loewenguth String Quartet, one performance stood out as loftily as old Edinburgh Castle itself. In King's Theatre, when the curtain went down on the Glyndebourne Opera Company's new and magnificent production of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, the audience leaped to their feet, mixed their applause with wave after wave of bravos...
...Choreographer Balanchine himself, whose ballets are not often seen in Britain (the Sadler's Wells does only one, his nine-year-old Ballet Imperial). His flowing Serenade (1935), fluidly danced, got a big hand. So did Jerome Robbins' new (1950) Age of Anxiety, danced to Leonard Bernstein's jazzy symphony score. By the time the first-night curtain went down on another Balanchine number, his piston-precise Symphony in C, the audience had been captured. The whole company had to skip on & off stage for 17 curtain calls...