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27 Jun 2007, 3:33 pm
Fifty years ago, I suspect that along with Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, and Sandy Koufax, most Americans could have named, at the very least, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Arthur Miller, Thornton Wilder, Georgia O'Keeffe, Leonard Bernstein, Leontyne Price, and Frank Lloyd Wright. [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]
16 May 2007, 9:54 am
Think of Shakespeare's borrowing from Ovid, he says, which helped produce "Romeo and Juliet," and the subsequent borrowing by Leonard Bernstein that produced "West Side Story. [read post]
21 Mar 2007, 12:49 am
The game was officiated by a crew led by Bennett Salvatore, a Leonard Bernstein lookalike who's one of the league's senior referees. [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 Mar 2007, 11:15 am
When Leonard Bernstein’s family donated the composer’s papers to the Library of Congress in 1993, it was with the goal of digitizing portions of the collection and making them broadly accessible. [read post]
7 Mar 2007, 1:51 pm
At about the same time, Leonard Bernstein undertook to show that with proper attentions to balancing and some adjustment of dynamics, one could use Schumann's original orchestrations and still make a good effect on the listener, and since then, as in many other areas of the repertory, the vogue for "urtext" and first versions (to wit, the somewhat misguided search for the definitive version of each Bruckner symphony....) has relegated the Mahler orchestrations… [read post]
9 Feb 2007, 8:31 pm
Finally, there was Leonard Bernstein's 2nd Symphony, The Age of Anxiety, a pretentious exercise from his 31st year. [read post]
9 Feb 2007, 8:31 pm
Finally, there was Leonard Bernstein's 2nd Symphony, The Age of Anxiety, a pretentious exercise from his 31st year. [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]
