Music: In the Family

"What is that dog howling in the night?" intoned blonde, hazel-eyed Actress Felicia Montealegre, 36, from the script. Cracked Conductor Leonard Bernstein from the podium: "That's no dog, that's my wife.'' For their first professional appearance together, Lennie and his wife Felicia were rehearsing Swiss Composer Arthur Honegger's sprawling dramatic oratorio, Joan of Arc at the Stake. Last week, with the full orchestra buttressed by assorted soloists, a boys' choir and a mixed chorus of 150 voices, the Bernsteins wound up the New York Philharmonic's season with a family triumph.

Actress Montealegre practiced...

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