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Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein , 1918-90, American composer, conductor, and pianist, b. Lawrence, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1939, and Curtis Institute of Music, 1941. A highly versatile musician, he was the composer of symphonic works (the Jeremiah Symphony, 1944; Age of Anxiety, 1949; Kaddish Symphony, 1963),... Read more |
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James Conlon
James Conlon Conductor Paris Triumph The Dwarf A Busy Year-Round Schedule Selected discography Sources American conductor James Conlon was awarded France’s Legion d’Honneur in 2002, an honor bestowed on only three other American musicians: Leopold Stokowski, Leonard... Read more |
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West Side Story
WEST SIDE STORY USA, 1961 Directors:Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins Production:Mirisch Pictures, Seven Arts Productions, Beta Productions; Technicolor, Panavision, 70mm; running time: 152 minutes. Producer:Robert Wise; screenplay:Ernest Lehman; ... Read more |
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Candide
Candide (1956), a musical satire by Lillian Hellman (book), Leonard Bernstein (music), Richard Wilbur, John Latouche, Dorothy Parker (lyrics). [Martin Beck Theatre, 73 perf.] Tutored by the incorrigibly optimistic Doctor Pangloss ( Max Adrian) who feels we live in “The Best of All... Read more |
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Peter Pan
Peter Pan (1905). James M. Barrie's whimsical tale of a boy who refuses to grow up and who takes other children to his special never‐land was first offered to American playgoers in 1905 with Maude Adams, for whom it was written, in the title role. To no small extent because it is a play to... Read more |
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Wolfgang Sawallisch
Wolfgang Sawallisch German orchestral conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch (born 1923) has been one of the best-known and most widely respected figures in the field of classical music, both in his native Germany and in the United States. Sawallisch's conducting art traced its roots back to the long... Read more |
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Benny Goodman
Benny Goodman (Benjamin David Goodman), 1909-86, American clarinetist, composer, and band leader, b. Chicago. Goodman studied clarinet at Hull House. In Chicago he had the opportunity to hear (and eventually to play beside) some of the outstanding jazz musicians of the era. He played the clarinet... Read more |
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Stephen Joshua Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheim 1930-, American composer and lyricist, b. New York City. As a young man, he studied lyric writing with Oscar Hammerstein 2d, and early in his career he wrote lyrics for Leonard Bernstein 's West Side Story (1957) and collaborated with Jule Styne in the writing of Gypsy... Read more |
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Richard Wilbur
Richard Wilbur 1921-, American poet and translator, b. New York City, grad. Amherst (B.A., 1942) and Harvard (M.A., 1947). A skillful craftsman who writes gracefully in traditional verse forms, Wilbur is always original, generally affirmative in his view of the world, and can be profound and witty,... Read more |
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musicals
musicals earlier known as musical comedy, plays that incorporate music, song, and dance. These elements move with the plot, heightening and commenting on the action. Mixing the sprightly songs and sketchy plots of operetta with the topical numbers of the revue , musical comedy began in... Read more |
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Bernstein, Leonard
Bernstein, Leonard (1918–1990), composer, conductor...Musical Theater.Bibliography Leonard Bernstein , The Joy of Music, 1959. David Schiff...Atlantic, June 1993. Humphrey Burton , Leonard Bernstein, 1994. Joseph Horowitz , The ... |
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On the Town
...by Betty Comden, Adolph Green (book, lyrics), Leonard Bernstein (music). [Adelphi Theatre, 463 perf.] Three sailors...Get Carried Away; Lonely Town. Derived from the Bernstein– Jerome Robbins ballet Fancy Free, this musical... |
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Kay, Hershy
...important orchestrator of Broadway musicals. He was a classmate of Leonard Bernstein at the Curtis Institute of Music, and his first major Broadway assignment was Bernstein's On the Town (1944). Kay's notably breezy arrangements were... |
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West Side Story
...1957), a musical play by Arthur Laurents (book), Leonard Bernstein (music), Stephen Sondheim (lyrics). [Winter Garden...choreography and drama could be integrated. Also, the Bernstein‐Sondheim score was unique in its use of opera... |
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Musical Theater
...Oscar Hammerstein II led the way with Oklahoma! (1943). Their subsequent masterpieces, along with such works as Leonard Bernstein's and Stephen Sondheim's West Side Story (1957) and Alan Jay Lerner's and Frederick Loewe's My Fair Lady... |
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Opera
...contemporary life was transformed by Sigmund Romberg, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim (among others) into a distinctively American form, reaching a vast international audience... |
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My Sister Eileen
...served as the basis for the successful musical WONDERFUL TOWN with Fields and Chodorov adapting their own play, Leonard Bernstein composing the music, and Betty Comden and Adolph Green providing the lyrics. Rosalind Russell was Ruth, Edith... |
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Peter Pan
...has never lost its appeal. Later Peter Pans have included Marilyn Miller, Eva Le Gallienne, and Jean Arthur. Leonard Bernstein composed incidental music for this last production. A musical version, with music by Mark Charlap and Jule Styne... |
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Candide
Candide (1956), a musical satire by Lillian Hellman (book), Leonard Bernstein (music), Richard Wilbur, John Latouche, Dorothy Parker (lyrics). [Martin Beck Theatre, 73 perf.] Tutored by the incorrigibly... |
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Comden and Green
...revue, A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green (1958). Among the composers with whom they collaborated were Leonard Bernstein, Jule Styne, and Cy Coleman. Autobiography (Comden): Off Stage, 1995. |
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Bernstein, Leonard
Bernstein, Leonard [ Louis] Bernstein (b Lawrence, Mass., 1918; d NY, 1990). Amer. composer, conductor, and pianist...1969 was made ‘laureate conductor for life’ of NYPO. Bernstein's outstanding quality as a musician was his catholic taste... |
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Candide
...Comic operetta in 2 acts by Leonard Bernstein, based on Voltaire's novel...Touche, Dorothy Parker, and Bernstein. F.p. Boston, Oct. 1956...many revisions (none involving Bernstein) being reduced to 1-act version... |
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Age of Anxiety, The
Age of Anxiety, The. Sym. No.2 by Leonard Bernstein for pf. and orch. (Title from Auden poem.) F.p. Boston, Apr. 1949 cond. Koussevitzky, soloist Bernstein. As ballet, NY Feb. 1950. |
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Trouble in Tahiti
Trouble in Tahiti. Opera in 1 act by Leonard Bernstein, to own lib. Prod. Brandeis Univ. June 1952, cond. Bernstein; NY 1958. In 1984 was incorporated into rev. of A Quiet Place. |
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West Side Story
...modernized version of Romeo and Juliet story with mus. by Leonard Bernstein, lib. by Arthur Laurents, and words of songs by Stephen...Prod. Washington and NY 1957, London 1958. In 1960 Bernstein wrote the orch. work Symphonic Dances from West Side... |
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Jeremiah
Jeremiah. Sym. No.1 by Leonard Bernstein for orch. with mez. soloist in last movement to words from Book of Jeremiah. F.p. Pittsburgh, Jan. 1944, cond. Bernstein, with Jennie Tourel. |
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New York Philharmonic Orchestra
...1949–50); Dimitri Mitropoulos (1950–8); Leonard Bernstein (1958–69, with whom the orch. made its Salzburg...Zubin Mehta (1978–91): Kurt Masur from 1991. Bernstein in 1969 became cond. laureate for life. The orch... |
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Chichester Psalms
Chichester Psalms. Choral work by Leonard Bernstein for counterten., ch., and orch. Text in Hebrew. Written for Chichester Cath., where perf. in July 1965. Orig. scoring is for organ, harp, and perc. |
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musical comedy
...My Fair Lady (1956, based on Shaw's Pygmalion), and Camelot (1960).A tougher vein was exploited by Leonard Bernstein with On the Town (1944), Wonderful Town (1953), and West Side Story (1957). The lyrics of the last-named... |
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jazz
...those who have written works throwing a bridge between jazz and symphonic forms incl. Gershwin, Rolf Liebermann, Leonard Bernstein, Gunther Schuller, Richard Rodney Bennett, and John Dankworth. |
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Bernstein's 80th Birthday Celebration Continues With Full Redesign of...
...Boulevard Network and the Estate of Leonard Bernstein today announced the launch of...continuing artistic legacy of Leonard Bernstein. Originally introduced November...Philharmonic, the official Leonard Bernstein Web site is ... |
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Leonard Bernstein's Family Donates Archives
...hundreds of recordings that are the bequest of Leonard Bernstein, arguably the biggest legend in American...s journal. NINA BERNSTEIN, Daughter of Leonard Bernstein: [reading from Leonard Bernstein's ... |
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Leonard Bernstein's 75th birthday being celebrated in variety of ways....
...Wednesday the music world marks Leonard Bernstein's 75th birthday, but he won...events: On Wednesday, the Leonard Bernstein Society will release on VHS...between 1958 and 1970. ``Leonard Bernstein's 75th,'' a concert ... |
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Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American Musician.(Book review)
Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American...95.] Illustrations, index. Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American...much space for a slim book about Leonard Bernstein, and feature, moreover, the kind... |
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Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American Musician
Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American...95.] Illustrations, index. Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American...much space for a slim book about Leonard Bernstein, and feature, moreover, the kind... |
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN: REFLECTIONS/MILHAUD: Le Boeuf sur le toit
* LEONARD BERNSTEIN: REFLECTIONS & EUROARTS DVD 3078728...MILHAUD Le Boeuf sur le toit * Leonard Bernstein, cond; French Natl O * Live: Paris 1976 An intelligent overview of Leonard Bernstein's career at the time, this 1978... |
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Remembering a Day in the Life of Leonard Bernstein
...when the usually tempermental Leonard Bernstein showed remarkable patience and...Host: Composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein died five years ago this week...large. NOAH ADAMS: Of course, Leonard Bernstein is also recalled ... |
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Leonard Bernstein - An American Life Jan. 1st on KCRW and KCRW.com.
...hour documentary series, Leonard Bernstein: An American Life. Produced...life and work of musical titan Leonard Bernstein, narrated by Academy Award-winning actress Susan Sarandon. Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) was a ... |
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Leonard Bernstein - An American Life Jan. 1st on KCRW and KCRW.com
...hour documentary series, Leonard Bernstein: An American Life.Produced...life and work of musical titan Leonard Bernstein, narrated by Academy Award-winning actress Susan Sarandon. Leonard Bernstein(1918-1990) was a ... |
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Native son Leonard Bernstein recalled in tribute.
...Becker, Jules Native son Leonard Bernstein recalled in tribute By Jules...Correspondent CHESTNUT HILL -- Leonard Bernstein found his earliest musical home...event entitled "A Tribut to Leonard Bernstein" commemorating the ... |
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