More than 30,000 people were expected to attend a “Music Under the Stars” concert in Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, tonight sponsored by the American Fund for Palestinian Institutions. Participants in the program will I clued Leonard Bernstein, conductor; Nathan Milstein, violinist; Artie Shaw, clarinetist; and Regina Resnik and Richard Tucker, both of the Metropolitan Opera. Proceeds from the concert will be used to support the 99 educational, cultural, religious and welfare institutions in Israel aided by the American Fund.
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