University Daily Kansan / Wednesdav. August 24, 1988
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Composer Bernstein celebrates his 70th birthday with concerts
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — He's gone through life like a volcano, erupting in a torrent of creative energy as constant as his chain of cigarettes. His dramatic burst and artistic drive has burst and he celebrates his 70th birthday.
Leonard Berrstein, the composer-conductor-pianist-teacher television celebrity, will mark his birthday in August at performances at the Tanglewood Music Center in Massachusetts, where he once studied under the conductor.
"I haven't slept very much in months," Bernstein, the stocky, white-haired maestro, said last week at Tanglewood. "I have no further felts except time to write my music. I’ve got a lot of music to write."
Leonard Bernstein
Bernstein has been active as he approached this milestone year. He organized a summer schedule listed (43 conducting performances in 25 cities in 10 countries). Three were in Moscow last month, two in Paris and two years to the country of his parents.
The past year also has seen premiers of two Bernstein compositions. My Twelve Tone Molyne, *Together*, and my "Jubilee Games," to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, with which I play.
A decade ago, Bernstein's energy waned after the death of his wife, Chilien actress Felicia Monteale, slipped into months of depression.
But since then, he has divided much of his time in Sweden his homes and abroad. He grew up in Austria, where he has often appeared with the Vienna Philharmonic.
His life has been as dizzy a balancing act as his emotional style on the podium: jaws, conforts and leaps that have occasionally caused him to
Berstein was 25 when he got the break that helped him become one of the United States' titans of classical music.
On Nov. 14, 1943, he filled in at the last minute for an映剧 Bruno Walter and conducted the New York show on a national radio broadcast.
The triumph of the orchestra's newly appointed assistant conductor was big enough to join the World War II battles in front page of the New York Times.
"I had no sleep, no rehearsal, a "I splitting headache." Bernstein recalled in a recent interview with Life. "I walked on with an awful hangover and don't remember what until I heard a thunderous ovation."
Bernstein has juggled careers as a composer and conductor. His compositions range from the theatrical "On the Town," "West Side Story"
In his compositions, as well as his highly acclaimed televised series of young people's concerts, he skimmed over the music of 1960 and pastured it for the U.S. palate.
He has been shrewd in marketing his career, setting up Amherston Enterprises in 1980 to manage films, video and videocases of his performances.
Born in Lawrence, Mass., to a middle-class Russian Jewish family, Bernstein got a late start in music. He was 10 when his Anita Clara gave the family an upright piano. But he always had an ear for music, his mother's demeanor in "Bernstein: A Biography" by Jean Peeserv.
"When he was 4 or 5, he would play an imaginary piano on his window-wall." Jemine Bernstein said. "When we finally got a piano, he what he now says he did: made love to it all the time."
His father, Sam, however, hoped young Lenny would join his beauty supply business. Berrstein persisted with piano lessons. He went on to study under Walter Pateen at HarperCollins and Fritz Kemper at the Curtis Institute.
He also met Aaron Copland at a 1937 concert. Later that night, at a party for Copland's 37th birthday, Bernstein impressed the composer with an improptuous performance of his difficult "Piano Variations."
conductor Dimitri Mitropoulis, who recognized his genius and encouraged him to pursue conducting.
With Copeland's help, Bernstein, whose greatest works were for the stage, pursued classical composition. He had written "Jeremiah," the first work in the musical tradition of Rodzinski appointed him his assistant in the chiharmonic in 1943.
During his Harvard days, he met
Koussevitzky, the Boston Symphony's influential music director and founder of Tanghew, advised his student to pursue classical music. But Bernstein continued with popular music.
The year of his philharmonic appointment, he wrote the ballet "Fancy Fly," which was a success. The plot free, with three sailors 24-hour on board, is adapted for Broadway's "On the Town," which won five Tony awards.
So soon to come his chamber opera "Trouble in Tahiti," the movie score for "On the Waterfront," Broadway's "Wonderful Town" and "Candide," and the immortal "A Little Prince." Juliet tale set amid the fire escapes and street gangs of Manhattan in the late 1950s.
Bernstein's successful substitution Walter also put him in great demand. He was known for his philharmonic to be guest conductor at large orchestras performing in the world.
In 1983, he became the first U.S. citizen to conduct at Milan's famed La Scala opera house, leading diva Mila Callas in Cherubin's opera *Opera*.
In 1857, the year he completed his tenure as chief musician of the Mitropolis co-director of the New York Philharmonic, and the following year became the orchestra's first conductor.
During his 11-year tenure, Bernstein led the orchestra on tours of South America, Europe and Asia, and on numerous national television appearances in which he explained classical music, including his "Hiv" TV appearances, which included the "Young People's Concerts", won *11 Emmy awards*.
Among those scheduled to participate at this week's concerts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at his home concert on Wednesday, daughter Nina, 28, a year-old actress.
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