Synopsis

"I love the Proms," Leonard Bernstein had announced after his debut last September with the Vienna Philharmonic. "The audience is incredible, the atmosphere unique." Tonight, returning to the Royal Albert Hall at age seventy, Bernstein conducts an international youth orchestra from Germany's Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, a group he has nurtured for the past two years. This first of six Omnibus concerts, showcasing highlights from the 1988 Prom season, reflects this year’s literary th