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Article: Carnegie Hall celebrates a century
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 7, 1991
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NEW YORK Carnegie Hall was host to a triple header of concerts to
show its vigor and spirit as it turned 100 years old. In the final,
evening concert, sentiment joined the two and a half hours of
superlative music.
The sentiment Sunday was warm appreciation for violinist Isaac
Stern for marshaling the forces that saved Carnegie Hall from
destruction in 1960 and sadness that Leonard Bernstein, who died last
fall, wasn't there to conduct.
Soprano Leontyne Price, who has retired from opera but still
sings on the concert stage, sang an aria from Strauss' "The Egyptian
Helen." The extended applause sounded like appreciation for her
entire glorious career.
Stern joined the New York ...