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15 Nov 2008, 4:29 am
On November 14, 1943, Leonard Bernstein made his professional debut as a conductor, leading the NY Philharmonic's Sunday subscription concert at Carnegie Hall, then the orchestra's home, in a challenging program that was nationally broadcast as part of the orchestra's regular Sunday broadcast series. [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]
15 Sep 2008, 7:30 pm
Mark Taylor, who was revealed in a 1994 biography of Leonard Bernstein to have had an "intimate relationship" with the famed musician who passed away in 1990, has suffered a reversal of his sexual orientation discrimination verdict against New York University Medical Center (NYUMC). [read post]
6 Aug 2008, 10:40 pm
This is true even though sheet music, scripts, and other works allow considerable flexibility in performance, as should be apparent to anyone who's ever seen different productions of Hamlet, or compared Leonard Bernstein's positively lethargic version of "Lacrymosa" from Mozart's Requiem to the more normal pacing of other versions, or compared Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love" to Jimi Hendrix's. [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]
30 Apr 2008, 8:17 pm
EuroArts has licensed from Unitel and released on a commercially distributed DVD a film of Leonard Bernstein rehearsing a youth orchestra at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in 1988, the subject matter being Shostakovich's 1st Symphony. [read post]
12 Apr 2008, 2:09 pm
The NY City Opera decided to conclude its 2007-2008 season with a revival of its Harold Prince production of the "opera house version" of the musical theater piece "Candide," with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Richard Wilbur as amplified over the years since the original 1950s Broadway production by Bernstein himself, John LaTouche and Stephen Sondheim, and a book adapted from Voltaire by Hugh Wheeler with, apparently, quite a… [read post]
21 Mar 2008, 8:18 pm
Another composer who was an enthusiastic exponent of Berio (having commissioned and premiered his Sinfonia with the NY Philharmonic) was Leonard Bernstein, who produced at around that same time his "Mass," commissioned by the Kennedy family as a memorial to John F. [read post]
21 Feb 2008, 7:30 am
West Side Story Stephen Sondhiem and Leonard Bernstein's take on Romeo & Juliet transports the story to the streets of New York with the warring families replaced by street gangs. [read post]
18 Feb 2008, 10:05 pm
Theater critic Terry Teachout made an interesting point the other day in this W$J op-ed about one of the hazards of great achievement relatively early in one's career: Leonard Bernstein set Broadway on fire in 1957 with "West Side Story," a jazzed-up version of "Romeo and Juliet" in which the Capulets and Montagues were turned into Puerto Rican Sharks and American Jets. [read post]
19 Nov 2007, 6:30 pm
This piece was famously taken up by Leonard Bernstein and the NY Philharmonic back in the 1960s, but it doesn't get much playing time with American orchestras, which have tended to trot out the 4th Symphony when they deign to play any Nielsen at all - the honorable exception being the San Francisco Symphony, which recorded a complete cycle of the Danish master's works for Decca back during the Blomstedt regime. [read post]
8 Nov 2007, 12:21 pm
[PDF] Svensson, Leonard [PDF] [read post]
16 Sep 2007, 12:26 pm
At the Kentucky Center For The Arts Bombard concert hall psychiatrist and extraordinary pianist Richard Kogan presented West Side Story at 50: The Mind and Music of Leonard Bernstein. [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]
19 Aug 2007, 2:43 pm
Written by magazine.org On October 17, 2005, the 40 greatest magazine covers of the last 40 years were unveiled at the 2005 American Magazine Conference (AMC) in Puerto Rico, by Mark Whitaker, Editor of Newsweek and President of American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME), and AMC Chairman Evan Smith, Editor of Texas Monthly. [read post]
27 Jul 2007, 12:58 pm
In the event, Tortelier gave a full-blown exposition with orchestral illustrations of the entire 5 movement work, somewhat in the style of Leonard Bernstein's old Young People's Concerts, but rather more sophisticated; indeed, more like Leon Botstein's Classics Declassifed series with the American Symphony Orchestra in New York, although there the talk usually lasts an hour and includes more historical background. [read post]
23 Jul 2007, 5:53 pm
Evelyn Glennie, the Scottish percussion soloist, made her debut at the Florida International Festival on Saturday night, performing the solo part in a new arrangement of Leonard Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. [read post]
22 Jul 2007, 5:45 am
The first half of the London Symphony's second Daytona Beach concert for the 2007 Florida International Festival was given over to a rearrangement of Leonard Bernstein's "Symphonic Dances from West Side Story" into a percussion concerto for Dame Evelyn Glennie. [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]
