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Candide 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
James Conlon 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
Peter Pan 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
Leonard Bernstein 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
Stephen Joshua Sondheim 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
Rough Riders Rough Riders
Rough Riders popular name for the 1st Regiment of U.S. Cavalry Volunteers, organized largely by Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War (1898). Its members were mostly ranchers and cowboys from the West, with a sprinkling of adventurous blue bloods from the Eastern universities. Roosevelt... Read more
Benny Goodman 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
Richard Wilbur 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
Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier
Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier The English historian Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier (1888-1960) was a major force in introducing stronger empirical methods and social analysis into the study of 18th-century politics. Lewis Namier was born Ludvik Bernstein near Warsaw on June 22, 1888. He... Read more
Leonard Wood Leonard Wood
Wood, Leonard (1860–1927) U.S. army officer and military governor. Born in Winchester, New Hampshire, Leonard Wood received his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School in 1884. Two years later he secured an army appointment as a lieutenant and assistant surgeon in Arizona Territory, and took... Read more

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