Keeping Score On “Keeping Score”

Once upon a time in America, Leonard Bernstein brought music to the masses — to the children, even — on TV. “Classical music is much more marginalized now, at least in American life, and any appearance on television is to be enthusiastically celebrated.” But is Bernstein protégé Michael Tilson Thomas, host of the PBS program, “Keeping Score,” the right person to take up the mantle?