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24 Oct 2011, 10:36 am by Steve
Today, our own Professor Gerry Leonard will debate Professor David Bernstein of George Mason University School of Law on Bernstein’s new book, Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights Against Progressive Reform. [read post]
13 Dec 2006, 9:02 am
Today's New York Times has an article about an interesting new production of Leonard Bernstein's Candide. [read post]
22 Nov 2008, 11:08 pm
, which specializes in presenting revivals of musical theater pieces in a semi-staged format, contributed its bit to the celebrations taking place in NYC this year to mark the 90th birthday of Leonard Bernstein by presenting Bernstein's first, rarely revived, musical theater piece, "On the Town. [read post]
11 May 2018, 9:02 am by Rick Hills
” Tom Wolfe’s 1970 essay describing " Leonard Bernstein’s party for the Black Panthers was delicious satire, because the swanky opulence of Lenny’s Park Avenue penthouse was glaringly inconsistent with the Panthers’ message of militant racial struggle that Bernstein pretended to endorse, indicating that the ostensible endorsement was merely a fashionable pose. [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]
17 Feb 2013, 7:40 am
AND: You can buy a box set of Leonard Bernstein's "Young People's Concerts" — 9 DVDs, 1500 minutes, only $84. [read post]
15 Jan 2019, 3:15 am by Peter Groves
But I digress, as usual.About 17 minutes and 20 seconds into the podcast, the reviewer (the composer William Mival) is considering the 1959 recording by the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein - another of my favourite musicians. [read post]
2 Oct 2018, 8:59 am
Oscar-nominated screenwriter and Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner has written the adaptation of the musical originally penned by Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim with music by Leonard Bernstein. [read post]
4 Feb 2016, 6:32 am by David Bernstein
As Leonard’s title suggests, as a rule early progressives were far from liberal in the broad sense of the word. [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]
13 Mar 2009, 9:01 am
Opening with a tribute to the iconic New York City subway system, complete with citations to sources as diverse as Leonard Bernstein and The Bonfire of the Vanities, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this week vacated and remanded a preliminary injunction barring a braking system manufacturer from disclosing proprietary drawings and other information to the New York City Transit Authority during the contracting process. [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]
28 Apr 2017, 1:50 pm
The  Westlaw Story video parodies music and scenes from the  Leonard Bernstein hit play Westside Story... it is  loaded with barbs about vendor booty to incentivize product adoption by law students but  also offers some honest critiques on the stengths and shortcomings of Lexis, Westlaw and Bloomberg Law. [read post]
10 Oct 2014, 3:09 am by SHG
  Immortalized by Leonard Bernstein for your viewing pleasure: These were simpler times, when gun referred to a zip gun, but the weapon of choice was the switchblade and gravity knife. [read post]
11 Jan 2016, 4:00 am by Cordell Parvin
 Leonard Bernstein once said this about Elvis: Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. [read post]