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5 May 2022, 7:59 am
There are times when our democracy depends on leaks to learn what is going on in the inner sanctums of Washington....None of that was about the Supreme Court, but please consider the larger picture as you analyze the leak from the Supreme Court.I'm reading this NYT article, published today, "As Leak Theories Circulate, Supreme Court Marshal Takes Up Investigation/Not since Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein refused for decades to disclose the identity of their Watergate… [read post]
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 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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
12 Apr 2010, 3:56 pm
Bernstein Thomas C. [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]
14 Nov 2011, 7:59 am
Despite the fact that some of Wendy’s executives don’t want to live in your state, we know that any place that inspired Leonard Bernstein and company to write “Ohio” (from the musical “Wonderful Town”) must be a very nice place indeed. [read post]
