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News for friends of Leonard Bernstein Winter 1995

To Our My Father and the FBI Readers

s we enter a new yea r of Apubli ca tion, a note of th anks is in order. We began p, f&r for a small circle of friends an d fa ns, to keep them informed abou t acti vities and perfor mances relatin g to Leonard Bern stein . Little did we imagine that in such a short tim e some 15,000 people would enter our orbit, and th at our modest newsletter would enter library systems worldwide. We scarcely dared to dream th at YOUNG PEOPLE'S CON­ CERTS videos would find enthusiastic viewers on th e other side of the globe, and that Nashvill e's Leonard Bernstein Center would be up and running hard . We are tickled th at th e demand fo r Bernstein recordings has increased, and that perfor­ mances of his mu sic are fl ourishing. Those of us wh o were close to him kn ew he was a treasure, but sometimes we felt he belonged only to us. That's why we give th anks to all of yo u. You remind us that the work we do has Leonard Bernstein with students at the White Hou se, 1964. mea ning not just fo r us, but also for a larger universe touched by by Jamie Bernstein Thomas scramble for sound bites. Though A local paper printed a letter to hi s musical soul. • we felt a bit blindsided, we strove the editor expressing outrage at hen the front-page to rise to the occasion, for here Bernstein's "traitorous trip to article appeared was our chance to set the record Hanoi" during the Vietnam War. without warning straight about Leonard Bernstein's Leonard Bernstein never visited in the New York unshakable idealism, and the price Vietnam in his life. But within a WTimes last summer , I had to laugh. he paid for it. few days a radio commentator, in The world seemed suddenly to be We had the giddy illusion that what purported to be news discovering what our family had at last everyone would understand analysis, referred to this mythical known for a long time: that the the folly and pain of what we, and Vietnam trip as if it were fact. Federa l Bureau of Investigation especially my father, had endured. One particularly galling edit­ had kept an extensive file on But over the next few weeks, orial implied that Leonard Bernstein, Leonard Bernstein, hoping to fragments of the original story by his association with certain expose him as a Communist, or at reappeared in ever-fainter artistic and political organizations, least to paint him as a dangerous incarnations. As in a game of was an apologist for Stalin. This, subversive. "telephone," the original facts too, would have made me laugh, For 48 hours the news media grew more distorted with each were it not such a calumny. descended on our family in a successive retelling. (continued on page 5) The BETA Fund

BETA Fund Supports Children's Music Theatre

children of two classes will create musical theatre pieces. The funding will help to support three teaching artists, who, in collabora­ BETA tion with the teachers and parents, wi ll work on a part time basis with the ch ildren to develop a FUND curriculum-based music theatre piece, throughout an eight week period of time. The teaching he Bernstein Education artists' sessions are supported by Through the Arts (BETA) Fund T the teachers, who will devote class is pleased to announce its support time to research of the project, of Chi ldren's Music Theatre at the thereby integrating curriculum Student performance at the Neighborhood Schoo l. Neighborhood Schoo l. subjects such as reading, writing, Founded in 1991 , the their own theatre piece for a larger sizes active learning and the mathematics, science and social Neighborhood School is a model, school-wide project. One final curriculum enables teachers to studies. Parents will involve child-centered, alternative public workshop will be held involving build on th e students' strength. themselves as stage hands, cos­ school located in New York City's teaching artists, parents, teachers Children are taught to use the tume designers and dramaturgs. Lower East Side. The school and administrators to eva luate the democratic process and group The PT A will design and distribute draws a very diverse student pilot project. problem-solving to enable them to informational fl yers about the population from Latino, Cauca­ The Neighborhood School was work in diverse social groups. All performance. The final project sian, African-American, Asian and created to provide an option to aspects of the children's growth will be videotaped by a parent for Native American backgrounds. parents seeking an alternative are considered in developing documentation and evaluation. Over a third of the students are model to usual public schools. curriculum, instruction and school The Neighborhood School bilingual, including speakers of Admission is by lottery designed routines. The BET A Fund is students who attend the perfor­ Spanish, Japanese, Ch inese and to achieve ethnic, racial and pleased to contribute to this mance will review it and contrib­ Benga li. Children's Music Theatre gender balance within the school valuable education through the ute their opinions and ideas on is a pilot project in which the population. The school empha- arts program. ways they would like to create •

New WEST SIDE STORY to Benefit Music Education

ichael Greene, President/ Some of the popular recording MCEO of The National artists who have committed to this Academy of Recording Arts and historic project include: Patty Sciences (NARAS), in con junction Austin, Natal ie Cole, Sheila E., with The BET A Fund, Inc., The Bruce Hornsby, Patti LaBelle, Little Leonard Bernstein Center For Richard, Michael McDonald, Education Through the Arts in Sting, Take 6, Wynonna Judd and Nashville, BMG/RCA Victor, and others to be announced. project producer David Pack, Of the tie-in with The Bernstein 2 announced a new recording "The Center and Grammy-in-the Songs of WEST SIDE STORY". Schools, Mr. Greene of NARAS This recording wi ll be a James Ingram, Michael McDonald and David Pack. said, "We are truly excited and reinterpretation of songs from the proud of this opportunity - and Broadway musical using contem­ NARAS Foundation's Grammy-in­ Pack's wish for Bernstein's music hope to rally not only the edu­ porary artists. A portion of the the-Schools initiative. to reach a new generation of cators and the public, but also the proceeds will benefit The Leonard This project is the brainchild of listeners led to his idea of using highest government official of the Bernstein Center for Ed ucation Grammy-winning producer David contemporary artists to interpret land to commit to music education Through th e Arts in Nashville and Pack, a longtime friend ofBernstein's. the songs. - he is after all a sax player." • Nashville Update

deas leap to life this fall as tors and parents, who serve as contact between the school and projects related to a work of art Iteachers, students, administra­ leaders in implementing school The Bernstein Center. Each are in place at each of the ten tors, parents and artists investigate change by using five key strategies: school receives on-going support schools. The range of projects what it means to "learn through 1) The Arts as a Fundamental from an Artistic Design Consult­ reflects the diversity and creative the arts" in partnership with The Model of Knowing and Learning ant, who works directly with the energy of the artists and teachers: Leonard Bernstein Center for 2) Pro-Active Curricula Focus Classroom teacher. in one school, high school students Education Through the Arts. 3) Authentic Assessments as Through weekly visits to each are working on a documentary Teams of teachers, parents and Evidence of Understanding school, the Artistic Design about The Bernstein Center; in administrators from ten schools 4) New Learning Technologies Consultant and the Focus another, kindergarten students are within the metropolitan Nashville 5) Teachers as Reflective Classroom teacher jointly plan, creating their own dances based Public Schools are exploring new Practitioners work with students, and document upon the Tennessee Dance points of view on learning and A Focus Classroom within projects throughout the year. Theater's performance of instruction, including the use of each school is the basic point of At this point in the school year, "Legends and Outside Angels"; in the arts as a fundamental way of still another, a group of middle knowing and learning. school students is investigating the What is innovative about this theme of harmony and dissonance, approach? Instead of focusing on using Stravinsky's RITE OF the question, What do we need to SPRING as an anchor for their teach?, The Bernstein Center and exploration. teams within each of the schools As each of the schools in the focus on new questions: What is partnership continues to explore learning? What do students, ways of knowing and learning teachers, parents and society need through the arts, they will begin to to learn? Love of learning, generate the same love of learning throughout life, is a key to success. that Leonard Bernstein communi­ The arts are a key to love of cated to the young with such learning. effortless enthusiasm. • Each school has a design team, composed of teachers, administra- A Teaching Artist and students.

Artist Benefits BETA Fund

he blending of music and These serigraph reproductions American music and art. In 1978, Bernstein's conducting, compos­ Tvisual art is a natural but are sold to galleries all over the at the Shanghai Symphony Hall, ing, recording and television difficult endeavor. Yet this is world and a portion of all sales is the Boston Symphony Orchestra career had been all around the exactly what San Diego-based donated directly to The Bernstein performed Bernstein's CANDIDE world." K.I.S.S. Arts Productions and their Education Through the Arts OVERTURE. Candide and From the New world-renowned artist Jin G. Kam (BET A) Fund. To date, K.I.S.S. "I had never heard any music World are the first in a series of have been able to accomplish. Jin Art Productions has contributed like this before. I saw color in the visual-arts tributes to the memory of Leonard Bernstein which also G. is a musician and an artist who over $30,000 to The BET A Fund. music which sparked a tremen­ benefit one of his lifelong pass­ has depicted jazz and classical Giving financial support back to dous interest in Leonard Bernstein ions: the education of America's performances, including many the educational community is an and American culture. Later, Jin 3 youth through the arts. • tributes to Leonard Bernstein. important part of both the G. moved to Japan and then to Two of Jin G.'s paintings, Candide publisher's and the artist's America where he was able to find and From the New World, have personal philosophy. musical recordings and videotapes been reproduced as limited edition For Jin G., the music of of Bernstein. "His visual presence serigraphs by K.I.S.S. Art Leonard Bernstein has a special was extremely powerful," says Jin Productions in cooperation with place in his life and in his painting. G., "and I was astounded and the Amberson Group and The During his early years in China, impressed to find out just how BETA Fund. Jin G. had very little exposure to extensive and influential Reporl from Vienna

A Friend Remembers

by Professor Peter Weiser FIDELIO (recorded in 1976 with the Vienna State Opera), the ienna, four years after posthumous film The Gift Of VLeonard Bernstein's death. Is Music, his recordings of the it not strange that there is still SYMPHONIES NO. 3 and 4 of some sort of void felt all over Gustav Mahler and of Beethoven's town? A void felt not only by NINTH SYMPHONY and fin ally music lovers ? A void caused by his rehearsal of Stravinsky's LE the vanishing of a man who came SACRE DU PRINTEMPS from so far and who came so late? attracted crowds that had to be No, it is not strange. Because, like seen to be believed. For his March, Bernstein came in like a FIDELIO, as many as 8000 lion; unlike March, he went out Viennese stayed until midnight, like an idol. sitting on chairs, on the grass, in In Vienna, Bernstein has not trees, and lying on the pavement. found a successor. Not at the These were wondrous nights. Vienna State Opera, where he Suddenly we all remembered how swept them off their feet with the Vienna Philharmonic Orches­ FALSTAFF, FIDELIO and DER tra sounded when Leonard ROS ENKA VALIER and where he Bernstein conducted it. Suddenly heard his own MASS and he we remembered how the sympho­ himself conducted A QUIET nies of Gustav Mahler sounded, PLACE. Not in the Musikverein when Leonard Bernstein drove the or in the Konzerthaus, where, musicians to the brink of from 1967 on, he conducted all of expressivity. And listening to his Mahler, all of Beethoven, all of marvelous rendering of Brahms and nearly all of his own Beethoven's NINTH we suddenly compositions. remembered how Leonard Bernstein was unique, a Bernstein, conducting this work, conductor and composer without both in East and West Berlin a few precedent. He was loved by the days after the fall of the Wall at public. He was loved by the Christmas 1989, changed the orchestras. He was loved by the word Freude into Freiheit and artists he worked with. He was electrified the entire world. loved by many critics. Every And when in The Gift of Music concert, every opera performance, Leonard Bernstein pays homage to Beethoven before a concert at the Musikverein. and in Bernstein in Salzau Lenny every composition of his seemed spoke - because by the Viennese played with the same awe and to be a present. His musicals were the City Hall into an open air he was never called otherwise - dedication that is usually reserved performed with the same cinema where, during the months it was as if he were still alive. And for the MISSA SOLEMNIS or enthusiasm Vienna's opera houses of July and August, as soon as indeed he is still alive in the OEDIPUS REX. usually muster for the master­ dusk falls, opera and concert films memory of a city that he blessed "We shall not look upon his pieces of Johann Strauss, while are shown free of charge. so often and so brilliantly by THE AGE OF ANXIETY, like again." Vienna's city fathers, Thousands have gathered there his presence. • 4 JEREMIAH, KADDISH and infatuated with Leonard Bernstein every night. Fortunately, Leonard CHICHESTER PSALMS were like so many Austrian leaders (half Bernstein had recorded nearly all Professor Peter Weiser is a of the government was there of his Vienna performances on film prominent figure in Viennese whenever he conducted), want him or video. Leonard Bernstein's cultural life and the translator of to remain alive in their city. They Bernstein's The Unanswered have turned the square in front of Question and Findings. FBI

My Father and the FBI, continued

(continued from page 1) (The case never went to trial. even included a memo to the against each other, fanning flames As early as I can remember, my Upon the revelation that an FBI Bureau's regional offices, urging of animosity and mistrust that father patiently explained to me infiltrator actually instigated the them to promote negative burn to this day. the distinction between the ideals bomb plot, the judge dismissed the Bernstein publicity through their But the FBI, despite all its of socialism and the evils of Soviet charges, and released all 21 local press contacts. efforts, never could crush my Communism. He detested the defendants.) Clearly, the FBI, that arm of father. He never stopped making Soviet regime; he had even seen The New York Times reported the US Government devoted to music, and he never abandoned it first-hand . My father never on my mother's fund-raiser as if it ferreting out evil conspiracies, had his convictions. Maybe that's why wished to be, and simply never were purely a social event, then engaged in one itself. I laughed that morning over my was, a Communist. No apologist followed its report with a savage The hate mail, the pickets - New York Times. And even for Stalin would have had the editorial. All that spring, Jewish all this uproar occurred before the though that game of "telephone" slightest use for Leonard Bernstein. Defense League demonstrators Wolfe article even appeared in sometimes garbles the message, Unfortunately, Tom Wolfe and made a racket outside our print! Of course, when it did maybe a few more people now New York magazine had plenty of apartment building, protesting appear, it played directly into the understand what an indomitable use for him back in 1970. The what they presumed to be my FBI's hands. visionary he was. wickedly funny "Radical Chic" father's "endorsement" of the With the "New York 21" All his life my father resisted article put Wolfe on the journalis­ anti-Zionist Panthers. episode, the FBI nearly succeeded the easy tendency to divide the tic map. When the article Years later our family in discrediting Leonard Bernstein. world into Us versus Them. His appeared, and for a long time discovered, in files obtained For a time my father's stature as a embrace of humanity shines thereafter, no one seemed to care through the Freedom of Informa­ musician was overshadowed by through every note of music he what the infamous fundraising tion Act, that those demonstrators his awful new role as object of composed and conducted. The event at our apartment was really teemed with FBI infiltrators. The trendy ridicule, embarrassing to very existence of music, he about. The more we tried to FBI also sponsored the barrage of his acquaintances and infuriating believed, was glorious evidence of explain, the less people listened. hate mail my father received in to his fellow Jews. Sadly, we the human potential for good. The truth is not so funny as response to the Times articles; weren't the only ones to suffer. That belief was the strength Wolfe's story. To begin with, it the Bureau relied heavily on its The FBI had deliberately pitted and soul of his lifework, and such was my mother who organized "Hadassah contacts" for the Jews and African-Americans beliefs are more powerful than any and hosted the reception. Its letter-writing campaign. The files attempt to discredit them. • purpose was to benefit the stranded families of 21 people accused of plotting to bomb a PEDERAL BURE:A U OF DNESTIOATION peculiar assortment of urban sites, l?ffERVIDI REPORT including Hammacher­

Schlemmer's store and the Bronx b,c b10 Zoo. The defendants had been ~~ 1'B1N jailed for nine months, without r~ ~ ..alllo adv1aed that he believes b,c.. ... t~~ r~~n~~tr~~:~e he Ms hearo them 1,, 0 resources to prepare their defense make pro-Ruae1an and ant.t-Amer1can etatesnenta 1 but he could not l'urn1eh any e~e.:ric details and unable to raise the huge sums to aubstantiate hia alle&,1t1ona regarding them: set as bail. Because the defendants were members of the Black Panther

Party, the government appeared to AlL n; roR~~ :10;1co1m.11 ,u> ~~~:·~A/lt'l.';:~ be resorting to preventive J#J., ,oi J,·u. detention for political purposes, 5 ignoring due process. Some New Yorkers, concerned about safe­ guarding civil liberties, established a fund to help with legal expenses, and to assist the families of the accused while the prisoners awaited their day in court. In the News

Digital Archives Update New Editions of CANDIDE and WEST SIDE STORY

ork on a practical proto­ Springate Corporation. We hope alni Publications is pleased to Unique to this score are ten pages Wtype of a digital archive is that by enlarging the prototype announce the first printing of of appendices giving the history of proceeding apace. Together with work to a multi-institutional level, lII scores for CANDIDE and productions of CANDIDE from our colleagues at the Library of we can begin to solve some of the WEST SIDE STORY. These 1956 to the present. Both the Congress Music Division, underlying challenges that we face scores have been in preparation piano/vocal and the full score are Springate has been devising ahead. All of the participants are for many years and represent the available from Boosey & Hawkes. strategies for making the digitiza­ eager to begin. They are surveying first volumes in hardcover of the WEST SIDE STORY is tion process smooth, reliable, and their institutions' collections for theatre works of Leonard likewise appearing in print in full cost-effective. We have been appropriate materials to link up Bernstein. A deep crimson cloth score for the first time. Ten years helped enormously in this effort with the Bernstein collection in a cover has the initials "LB" in preparation, this score is the by Yale's new Music Librarian, digital archives prototype. embossed on the front, while the definitive representation of this Kendall Crilly, who joined us at Meanwhile, Springate and the name of the composer and the title historic work. Corrections made the Library for an intensive three­ Music Division are busy designing appear in gold letters on the spine. during Leonard Bernstein's day session hosted by the Music the first prototype using materials CANDIDE covers 479 pages, recording sessions in 1984 have Division's Betty Auman. To­ from the 1940's. In addition to which is similar to a phone book been incorporated; a few bars in gether, Mr. Crilly and Ms. Auman covering a great variety of media for a medium-size city. The score the Ballet that were cut in 1957 identified some crucial differences (i.e. correspondence, clippings, is the Scottish Opera Version, as have been restored; and all the in the practices of librarians and photographs, recordings, videos, produced in Glasgow in 1988 and scene-change music and under­ archivists. We will need to invent and scores), these materials also recorded by Mr. Bernstein in scoring usually found in a an on-line structure that all provide a wealth of potential 1989. There are preliminary Broadway score are intact. institutions will be able to connections to other archives, pages listing casts for both Future volumes will include recognize and use in common. including Copland, Koussevitsky, productions, timings for individual ON THE TOWN, WONDERFUL This challenge illustrates why we Thomson, Goodman and Schuman. numbers, instrumentation, and TOWN, and MASS. None of have established an Advisory We encourage all those other pertinent information. these works has ever been Council for this project. interested in this project - The piano/vocal score for available for sale in full score. • The Advisory Council is made businesses, arts institutions, CANDIDE is also newly in print. up of representatives from intellectual property holders, and Harvard University, Yale philanthropies - to contact us for University, Columbia University, further information. The New York Public Library, Please address all inquiries to Humphrey Burton's The Pierpont Morgan Library, and Nina Bernstein c/o The Leonard Indiana University, as well as the Bernstein Society, or send E-mail Leonard Bernstein Library of Congress and the to Ninabstein @aol.com. • ontinuing its success after Bernstein's life and music, Cpraise in the United States featuring songs by the composer and Britain, Humphrey Burton's sung by Dawn Upshaw and Kurt Note to Readers Leonard Bernstein was published Ollman, accompanied by Michael in a Japanese language edition in Barrett, while Jamie Bernstein prelude, fugue & riffs will be We appreciate notice of any July 1994. A German translation Thomas and Burton joined the sent upon request. Please send all performances or events featuring was published in December 1994. conversation. correspondence to: the music of Leonard Bernstein or • A new paperback edition honoring his creative life and shall Craig Urquhart incorporating revisions and new do our best to include such infor­ prelude, fugue & riffs material will appear in the United mation in forthcoming Calendars. 6 25 Central Park West, Suite 1Y States and United Kingdom in the prelude, fugue & riffs'" is a New York, NY 10023 spring of 1995. In Britain, several publication of The Leonard Fax: (212) 315-0643 hour-long programs, entitled Bernstein Society. © 1995 by Humphrey Burton's Life of Tax-deductible donations to The Amberson Group, Inc. Leonard Bernstein, were broad­ The Bernstein Education Through Executive VP: Harry]. Kraut cast on radio. On CNN, the the Arts (BET A) Fund, Inc. may be Managing Editor: Craig Urquhart Larry King Weekend program sent in care of the same address. Editor: Ned Davies recently devoted an hour to Design: Borsa Wallace, NYC Looking Ahead

Bernstein New Video Releases in Billboard TEACHERS & TEACHING and YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERTS Top 100 ive Bernstein recordings he Leonard Bernstein Society essay is an CONCERTS Sampler Set, Volume Ffeature in Billboard Tis pleased to announce the affectionate 2 may be ordered by credit card Magazine's Top 100 Classical exclusive video release of tribute to from the Leonard Bernstein Recordings of all time. These are TEACHERS & TEACHING, an lea rning and Society by calling 1-800-382- Maestro Bernstein's recording of autobiographica l essay by Leonard teaching, and 6622. TEACHERS & TEACH­ his MASS, which charts at No. 11; Bernstein, as well as a newly to all teachers ING is $24.95 (p lease specify Item his recording of WEST SIDE available YOUNG PEOPLE'S everywhere, #2018, code 9999) and and The STORY is No. 20; the historic CONCERT video sampler set. who, in YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERTS recording of Mahler's SYM­ In TEACHERS & TEACH­ Bernstein's Sampler Set, Volume 2 is $74.95 PHONY NO. 8 with the London ING, the Maestro discusses the own words, (please specify Item #8008, code Philharmonic Orchestra is at No. impact his many fine teachers had "work so 9999) and add $4.95 for shipping 27; the recording of the now­ on his li fe. He tells of piano hard to give young people a world and handling for both items. • legendary concert of Beethoven's studies with Madame Vengerova, that is a better, richer and more NINTH SYMPHONY, performed as well as conducting studies with civilized place." in 1989 in Berlin at the time of fall Dmitri Mitropolos, Fritz Reiner The YOUNG PEOPLE'S of the Wall, is No. 36; and at 84 is and Serge Koussevitsky. Bernstein CONCERTS Sampler Set, Vo lume Bernstein's recording of the also remembers that Aaron 2, consists of six programs on 2 London Symphony Orchestra Copland "taught me what not to video tapes. The programs are: performance of CANDIDE. write, what to throw away." The What is Impressionism?; The Latin Bernstein has more recordings in video includes music by Brahms, American Spirit; A Toast to the Billboard Top 100 Classical Mozart, Ravel, Mahler, Beethoven Vienna in 3/4 Time; Berlioz Takes Recordings than any other and Copland and has guest a Trip; Two Ballet Birds; and conductor. • appearances by Lukas Foss, Seiji FIDELIO: A Celebration of Life. Ozawa, Michael Tilson Thomas, Both TEACHERS & TEACH­ and Krystian Zimerman. This ING and The YOUNG PEOPLE'S

New Recording WONDERFUL TOWN A Letter from SYMPHONIC at City Opera India DANCES he Kansas City Symphony has n November 1994 the New "What's astonishing," he "T he YOUNG PEOPLE'S Treleased a new compact disc IYork City Opera presented a continues, "is how genuinely CONCERTS videotapes recording of SYMPHONIC revival of WONDERFUL TOWN. funny it still is, and how charming have been so well received by the DANCES FROM "WEST SIDE Of this production, Vincent Canby and (as actors say) how 'present' children at school and by the STORY". This recording was wrote in the Sunday New York Kay McClelland and Crista Moore teachers, as well. In this school, introduced at a celebration in the Times of November 20, 1994: manage to be in the leading roles."• where our purpose is the enjoy­ home and studio of painter "It's a marvelous opportunity to ment of learning and learning Thomas Hart Benton. The Kansas monitor the second magical through enjoyment, the tapes are City Symphony is conducted by its collaboration of the composer perfect." musical director William Leonard Bernstein with th e McGlaughlin. The Bernstein work lyricists Betty Comden and Adolph From the Atma Vidya Educational 7 is joined by music of Copland, Green. What a grand score this Foundation in Kera /a, India. Barber and Dvorak. • one is: "Ohio," "A Quiet Girl" and the ecstatic "It's Love, " We couldn't have said it better. • among other numbers, all written within four and a half months. That really is love. It's also talent, energy, expertise and high spirits. " Kay McClelland and Company. Calendar of Events·

* Partial Listing. Please note that all dates and programs are subject to change.

January February, continued March, continued

5-7 Atlanta: SYMPHONIC DANCES FROM 23-25 Rotterdam: PRELUDE, FUGUE & RIFFS; 15-30 Naples, FL: WEST SIDE STORY; "WEST SIDE STORY"; Atl anta Symphony Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra; Naples Dinner Theater. Orchestra; Marin Alsop, conductor; Paavo Jarvi, conductor; de Doelen. 23 -25 Washington,DC: SERENADE; National Symphony Hall. 23-26 Winchester, VA: ON THE TOWN; Symphony ,Orchestra; James Pau l, Shenandoah University Theatre Depart- 11-15 Saint-Etienne, France: CANDIDE conductor; Kennedy Center for the ment; James Laster, musical director; (Scottish Opera Version); Opera de Performing Arts. Saint-Etienne; Robert Fortune, director; Harold Herman, stage director; Armstrong Auditorium. Opera de Saint-Etienne. Detroit: THREE DANCE VARIA- 12-14 Atlanta: CHICHESTER PSALMS; 24,25 TIONS FROM "FANCY FREE"; Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Yoe l Levi, April conductor; Symphony Hall. Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Leslie Dunner, conductor; Orchestra Hall. 14 Paris: THREE DANCE EPISODES Purchase, NY: THREE DANCE EPI- FROM "ON THE TOWN"; Orchestre 25 14,15 Raleigh, NC: SYMPHONY NO.2, "THE SODES FROM "ON THE TOWN"; The National d'Ile de France; Jacques Mercies, AGE OF ANXIETY"; North Carolin a conductor; Sa lle Pleyel. Westchester Symphony; Anthony Aibel, Symphony; Gerhardt Zimmerman, conductor; Performing Arts Center. conductor; Susan Starr, piano; Ra leigh 17 Paris: SERENADE; Ensemble Orchestral Memorial Auditorium. de Paris; Jean-Jacques Kantrow, conductor; 25 North Bay, Ont: SUITE FROM "ON THE WATERFRONT"; No rth Bay Vadin Repin, violin; Sa lle Pleyel. 21 -23 Denver: SYMPHONY NO. 1, Symphony Orchestra; Kerry Stratton, "JEREMIAH"; Colorado Symphony 29-31 Columbia, SC: WEST SIDE STORY; conductor; North Bay Arts Centre. South Carolina Philharmonic; Nicholas Orchestra; Marin Alsop, conductor; Smith, musical director; Jeanette Arvay, 26,27 Oldenburg, Germany: SYMPHONY Boettcher Concert Hall. NO. 2, "THE AGE OF ANXIETY"; stage director; Koger Center for the Arts. 22 Paducah, KY: CHICHESTER PSALMS; Oldenburgisches Orchestra; Alicia Paducah Symphony Orchestra; Jordan Mounk, conductor; Rolf Plagge,piano; Tang, conductor; Symphony Ha ll. YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERTS: Broad- Staatstheater. * casts to begin in January and will be aired 24 Flushing, NY: THREE MEDITATIONS on a continuing basis in France and FROM "MASS" FOR CELLO, ORGAN Germany. Arte/La Sept Television. AND ORCHESTRA; Queens Chamber Symphony; Maurice Peress, conductor; March Barbara Ma ll o, cell o; Donald Joyce, organ; Colden Center. February 2-5 Stratford, CT: WONDERFUL TOWN; 27,28 Santa Cruz de Tenerife: OVERTURE TO St. Mark Players; Joe Irwin, musica l "CANDIDE", SERENADE, SYMPHONIC DANCES FROM "WEST SIDE STORY"; 4 Lawrence, NY: WEST SIDE STORY, director; Arth ur Ullman, stage director; Orquesta Sinf6nica de Tenerife; Edmon "In the Spirit of Leonard Bernstein"; Frank Scott Bunnell Auditorium. Olner, conductor; Tenerife Opera House. concert & lecture by Bert Konowitz 3 Oldenburg, Germany: SYMPHONY and the Lawrence Philharmonic; Ka rl NO. 2, "THE AGE OF ANXIETY"; 29,30 Stevens Point, WI: THREE DANCE McDannell, conductor; Lawrence Oldenburgisches Orchestra; Alicia EPISODES FROM "ON THE TOWN"; Public School. Mounk, conductor; Rolf Plagge, piano; Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra; 10,11 Annapolis, MD: THREE DANCE Staatstheater. Eric Townell, conductor; Sentry Theatre. EPISOD ES FROM "ON THE TOWN"; 7 White Plains, NY: THREE DANCE EPI- Annapol is Symphony Orchestra; Gisele SODES FROM "ON THE TOWN"; The Ben-Dor, conductor; Maryland Hall for Westchester Symphony's Young People's the Creative Arts. Music Workshop; Anthony Aibel; 10,12, Liege, Belgium: CANDIDE (Scottish conductor; County Center. 16,18, Opera Version); Orchestre de !'Opera 8,10, Boston: CANDIDE (Scotti sh Opera 19 Royal de Wa llonie; Robert Fortune, 12,14 Version); Boston Lyric Opera 1718; director; Theatre Royal de Liege. Stewart Robertson, conductor; Timothy 11 Irving, TX: THREE DANCE EPISODES Ocel, director; production by Co lin FROM "ON THE TOWN"; New Phil - Graham; Emerson Majestic Theatre. harmonic Orchestra of Irving; Rick 7-12 Nancy, France: CANDIDE (Scottish Giangiu la, conductor; Carpenter Opera Version); Opera de Nancy; Robert ::,0 Performance Hall. Fortune, director; Opera de Nancy. ~· 0.. 14,15 Edmonton, Alberta: SYMPHONIC 9-12 Baltimore: CANDIDE (Scottish Opera 0 ::, 8 DANCES FROM "WEST SIDE STORY"; Version); Peabody Conservatory of Mus ic :,;:; n, n Operal)epartment; Kim Pensinger '< Edmonton Symphony Orchestra; Uri n Witman, music director; John Lehmeyer, <>"" Mayer, conductor; Northern Alberta 0.. staging .,-., Jubilee Auditorium. -., 23,24 La Mirada, CA: WEST SIDE STORY; 10-19 Reading, PA: SYMPHONIC DANCES ()I Biola University Theatre Department; FROM "WEST SIDE STORY"· Reading Jeff Kennedy, producer and director; Symphony Orchestra; Sidney-Rothstein, Marlin Owen, musical director; La conductor; Rajah Theatre. Mirada Theater for the Performing Arts. Best Wishes for a happy 1995 from L.B.'s grandchildre11, Evan and Francisca Thomas.