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Show BOOKS Bernstein's extraordinary life explored BOOKMARK Biographer was NEWS FOR BOOK LOVERS conductor's frend Bookstore hosts reading, signing LEONARD BERNSTEIN. By Hum- poetry reading and book signing this week. pe na Students of a poetry class taught by Brad Roghaar, an English nstructor at Weber State University, will read from their work at 6 B < a * i un a \ | al \ s his “ 7 | S Ss ) at 3 Si dg S$esse first Cl Cac I< gS ? g It was \ l Yr i best. T But st of the several writers who searched out the songs ( 5 » Leonard Bernst biogra in \ agescrides the British television director as a riend and colleague of Bernstein's f 30 vears. They first met in 1959. when Burton was working for BBC Television; their relationship continued through the 1970s and S when Burton directed Bern- n’s concert and opera films in No whitewash doubtless was Burton’s closeto his subject that enabled him gain exclusive access to the Bernstein archive. as well as to the ly members and others of the This gave him aclear inlage Over previous biogra- Burton's friendship has led him to err ! discretion while he n the dark sideof ¢ sympathy for 1an — the most significant isician America has ever proed. an assertion Burton clearly eves even if he never says so di- tly — gives the volume thefla“approved” biography. seemed almost preorbecome Lennythe Ga eat Lenny the multifaceted avatar of R + pernsteimn greal s¢ energies, w Medical folklorist to give lecture LOGAN — The Fife Folklore Conference at Utah State University this year focuses on life cycles — birth to death and everything in between. American And delivering the Fife Honor Lecture will be David J. Hufford, the first folklorist in the United States to teach in a medical school. He will speak at 7 p.m. Monday in the Eccles Conference Center auditorium. Hufford is a faculty member at Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. He has lectured widely on folk and vernacular medicine, out-of-body experiences, nightmare narratives and ever pro- And he succeeded Burton's saga makes r. Bernstein’s omnivorous interSIS Kept bumping into one another: Lenny kept trying to upstage Leonard. and vice versa. Bernstein felt he had to make excuses for his failure to satisfy the impossible deHe The bookstore is at 710 40th St., South Ogden. Both events are be the greatnerica ands he alone madeon himself. couldn't do more composing iring the 1960s because conduct- ing the New York Philharmonic and an exhausting schedule of young people's TV concerts sapped his energy and time. He couldn't return 10 Broadway (scene of his “On the Town” and “West Side supernatural folklore. The lecture is free and open to the public. The Associated Press York Philharmonic in 1988, delves into his tormentedlife. bare the creative and personal con- flicts that raged in Bernstein. As his career climbed to ever greater heights of artistic triumph and worldwide acclaim. Bernstein the man went from agony to ecstasy and everything in between. Down deep. he wanted the entire world to love him but had difficulty sustaining intimate relationships with both sexes. Burton confirms a Serious Composer. And soforth. Peyser’s allegation that Bernstein Creative stuff had an early. incestuous liaison with his sister. Shirley. Although he For Bernstein the composer, the inspiration; the problem was that composition is a solitary act, and he always craved the mother’s milk of public performance. public adulation. In the mid-'60s he took a sabbatical from his duties at the New York Philharmonic. ostensibly enjoyed what appeared to be a sto- rybook marriage to actress Felicia Montealegre for 27 years, fathering three children with her, he was for most of his life a troubled homosexual. To Copland the young Bernstein confessed that one week he was flirting with “the charming boy in the Tanglewood box office.” tion. The only music that resulted from those 12 months was “Chichester Psalms.” the most conservaLives OF his mature works. He frittered away much of the 1970s the next week discussing marriage with the pretty Kiki Speyer, daughter of the Boston Symphony's English horn player. Louis Speyer. In 1976. when Bernstein announced he was leaving his wife for a male and °8Us laying plans for works that lover. re never written. Somecritics at tne time thought Bernstein the composer was finished: Burton. Difficult loss to devote al his time to composi- however, believes the creative stuff was sull there In exhaustive detail. Burton lays she cursed him: “You're go- ing to die a bitter and lonely old man the rest of his days. guilt hung like an albatross around Bernstein's neck. “He believed himself responsible for his wife’s death.” writes Burton. and “he never recovered from her loss.” Bernstein’s escape from psychic pain was to throw himself into life and music ever more hedonistically. His behavior grewerratic, reckless. Sull. Burton refuses to go along with the standard critical take on Bernstein as an extraordinarytalent dissipated in self-serving exhibitionism. Burton suggests Bernstein’s talents never diminished but, rather. grew more diversified as he grewolder. As for his exhibitionism, that is a misperception based on a failure to recognize the depth of his involvement in the music he conducted. Nearly four years after Bernstein’s death, the critical consensus about Bernstein seems to have moved closer to the Burton view. The best of his music has won a firm place in the repertory. And he is widely recognized as one of the supreme conductors of the century, for all the dionysian choreography on the podium that once set the critics’ teeth on edge. Felicia died of lung cancer two By John Von Rhein vears after the marriage ended. For Chicago Tribune best-selling biography “Maria Cal- “80s that she did some of her most las: The Woman Behind the Leg- important “research.” for his tellow man.” end.” New York immediately took her in. and famous? Don't, says Arianna Hutfington, because it’s not necessarily what it’s cracked up to be Instead, says the conservative so- Huffington, who is disarmingly charming. beautiful and stylish. is as connected socially as she is polit- and now divides her time between ically. Santa Barbara, Calif., and Washing- ialite and author, find enjoyment Gov. Jerry Brown, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Shirley MacLaine and Pat Buckley were ton, D.C. Her husband has an- all at her 1986 New York wedding November. federal programs,” said the 43-yearld Huffington in an interview. “But they don’t work. ianna Stassinopoulos — came to| the United States in the early 1980s from London, where the native of Greece had settled after graduating “Instead of asking what the gov- from Cambridge University. She ernment can do, we need to ask was promoting her third book, the EE VK FIST RY «ee PHOLOGRAEHY oD Aa DNN PTTC Toe tgs aeis June 19th. Wedding Photography | America’s Finest on location J _ Artistic Photography! saw the emptiness that comes from living only by man’s first three in- stincts: survival, power and sexuali- ty. 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Diane Feinstein in “The Conjugal Angel” arelively and literary, intricate and symbolic, shimmering with a witty intelligence. IN TROUBLED WATERS. By Beverly Coyle. Penguin, $9.95. Coyle, a fifth-generation Floridian, weaves a compelling and seamless story of contemporary Florida in her second novel. Tom Glover, 91, hires two neighborhood boys to look after his son-in-law, who is in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. But because one of the boys is black, the community's latent racism soon surfaces. A lot goes on in this novel of love and fear, old Florida vs. new, ] — even salvation — in altruism She moved here soon afterward, Annawake Fourkiller, an idealistic young Cherokee lawyer, tracks down Taylor Greer in Tucsontotell her that Taylor's adoption of 6-year-old Turtle appearsto be illegal because it was done without the consent of the Cherokee Nation. But Taylor's not aboutto let go of Turtle, whostill carries the scars of early childhood abuse. Terms like “victim” and “winner” soon becomeirrelevant as Kingsolver explores the complex custody issue and the nature of family and community in lyrical, accessible writing. ANGELS & INSECTS.By A.S. Byatt. Vintage, $12. A penniless naturalist married to a wealthy man’s daughter seeks an Outlet for his scientific knowledge and begins studying colonies of wood ants. A sea captain's middle-aged widow discovers she has talents as a medium and begins conducting seancesin the homeof a well-off woman whosefiance died young. In these paired novellas set in the Victorian era, the author of Possession immerses readers in an age much concerned with both Darwinism and spiritualism. And both “Morphio Eugenia” and By Nancy Pate Orlando Sentinel what | can do tach individual has to accept someresponsibility society These novels have just been released in paperback: PIGS IN HEAVEN. By Barbara Kingsolver. HarperPerennial, $13. 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