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22 May 2013, 9:05 am
Leonard Bernstein reportedly said that to achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time. [read post]
13 Apr 2014, 12:30 am
The roll call of beneficiaries — unwitting, to various degrees — included Mary McCarthy, Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Schlesinger. [read post]
13 Nov 2011, 7:14 pm
Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein, a financial services regulatory attorney, presented separate discussions about how 1) Dodd-Frank and 2) advertising laws impact structured settlements. [read post]
26 Sep 2009, 8:10 pm
I picked up a single ticket for next Saturday's concert, since I didn't want to miss the opportunity to hear a live performance of Ives' 2nd Symphony (not frequently enough played in this parts - it should be in the standard rep at the NYP, after all, since the orchestra gave its world premiere and two memorable recordings under Leonard Bernstein's leadership) and also the new work that Magnus Lindberg wrote for the opening night concert and which… [read post]
6 May 2008, 6:33 am
Leonard Bernstein plays Rhapsody in Blue in 1976 (parts 1 and 2)III. [read post]
2 May 2008, 2:54 pm
Leonard Bernstein plays Rhapsody in Blue in 1976 (parts 1 and 2)III. [read post]
7 Jul 2010, 4:50 am
I am a music kid, raised by a child prodigy mother who did not pass any talent but did pass a love of music to her son (Mom performed concerts with Leonard Bernstein when only 8 years old and went on to Julliard while still in high school). [read post]
8 Jul 2007, 1:22 pm
This would have prevented Leonard Bernstein and his co-creators from producing “West Side Story” (which was based on Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet”) without the permission of Shakespeare’s heirs. [read post]
9 Feb 2012, 10:26 am
Tony and Maria’s star-crossed fate begins with an exchange of insults choreographed by Jerome Robbins, set to music by Leonard Bernstein, and put into words by Stephen Sondheim. [read post]
11 Aug 2009, 7:14 am
The event made theater history (and was later recreated in Cambridge by Leonard Bernstein). [read post]
29 Apr 2009, 12:24 am
If those don’t strike you as essential losses, then consider the remarkable series of “plagiarisms” that links Ovid’s “Pyramus and Thisbe” with Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story, or Shakespeare’s description of Cleopatra, copied nearly verbatim from Plutarch’s life of Mark Antony and also later nicked by T. [read post]
18 Mar 2007, 6:42 pm
The rest of the program consisted of three of the four movements of Randall Thompson's The Testament of Freedom, a World-War-II era patriotic work setting texts by Thomas Jefferson that are rather wordy to the extent of trying the listener's patience at times, although the music is never less than enjoyable to hear, and the fourth movement of Beethoven's 9th Symphony, with the text altered in emulation of Leonard Bernstein's famous performance of the… [read post]
11 May 2009, 7:45 pm
And not just any NY Philharmonic member - it was Orin O'Brien, the wonderful double bass player who joined the orchestra under Leonard Bernstein in the 1960s and has been the unifying factor in that bass section for more than 40 years. [read post]
26 Jan 2010, 12:59 pm
One of the composers, Jack Gottlieb, was present and introduced after his song, but no information about his interesting career and long professional association with Leonard Bernstein was mentioned. [read post]
9 Oct 2009, 11:09 am
(Infamous example: Glenn Gould wanted to play the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 much more slowly than was then the norm, and Leonard Bernstein went along, although at the public rehearsal prior to the first regular concert, Bernstein made a little comment to the audience making it clear that the tempo choice was Gould's, not Bernstein's, and seeking to disassociate himself from the choice. [read post]
13 Jan 2013, 9:11 pm
Judge Scott Bernstein was considering a challenge, but chose not to run. [read post]
18 May 2007, 7:46 am
(In a startling replay of the Leonard Bernstein NY Philharmonic debut, MTT was called upon to substitute for the ailing music director, William Steinberg. [read post]
6 Aug 2009, 7:11 am
From Shakespeare to Leonard Bernstein, Charles Lamb to Stanley Fish, new authors and literary critics use the grist provided by earlier writers to feed their imaginative mills. [read post]
27 Sep 2008, 8:22 pm
I don't normally think of him as a "slow" conductor, but maybe he's following the path of his late mentor, Leonard Bernstein, whose own performances slowed dramatically in his last years. [read post]
13 Sep 2007, 6:20 pm
It's great to have recordings by Isaac Stern and Herbert von Karajan and Leonard Bernstein at budget prices, but ultimately I think it is more valuable that Naxos is giving us all of V-L's piano music masterfully played by Sonia Rubinsky in well-annotated, nicely illustrated (great cover art!) [read post]
