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Trimble, Lester | December 5, 1959 issue

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The article presents the author's views on Leonard Bernstein's accession to the New York Philharmonic dictatorship. This is not a matter of chauvinism; it has to do with the rappart essential between a director and his audience, as with his relation to American culture as a whole. Nevertheless, there are still negatives to be weighed in the Bernstein balance. One of these is that his programs do not always sound as interesting as they promise on paper. Finally, the author concludes that this gifted, enigmatic conductor has within his power to make a huge and lasting contribution to the American cultural life.

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DICTATORSHIP; TOTALITARIANISM; INTELLECTUAL life; BERNSTEIN, Leonard, 1918-1990; ACCESSION (Law); UNITED States
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