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Bernstein Meets Broadway

Carol J. Oja

Author : Carol J. Oja
Publisher : Broadway Legacies
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199862092

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A super-star of 20th-century music, Leonard Bernstein is famous for his multi-faceted artistic brilliance. Best-known on Broadway for "West Side Story," a tale of immigrant struggles and urban gang warfare, Bernstein thrived within the theater's collaborative artistic environments, and he forged a life-long commitment to advancing social justice. In 'Bernstein meets Broadway: collaborative art in a time of war', award-winning author Carol J. Oja explores a youthful Bernstein-a twenty-something composer who was emerging in New York City during World War II. Devising an innovative framework, Oja constructs a wide-ranging cultural history that illuminates how Bernstein and his friends violated artistic and political boundaries to produce imaginative artistic results. At the core of her story are the Broadway musical On the Town, the ballet Fancy Free, and a nightclub act called The Revuers. A brilliant group of collaborators joins Bernstein at center-stage, including the choreographer Jerome Robbins and the writing team of Betty Comden and Adolph Green. With the zeal of youth, they infused their art with progressive political ideals. On the Town focused on sailors enjoying a day of shore leave, and it featured a mixed-race cast, contributing an important chapter to the desegregation of American performance. It projected an equitable inter-racial vision in an era when racial segregation was being enforced contentiously in the U.S. military.

Leonard Bernstein, West Side Story

Nigel Simeone

Author : Nigel Simeone
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Music
ISBN : 0754664848

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Leonard Bernstein, West Side Story by Nigel Simeone Pdf

West Side Story is one of the few Broadway musicals that can make a genuine claim to transforming the genre. Nigel Simeone begins by exploring the long process of creating West Side Story, including a discussion of Bernstein's sketches, early drafts of the score and script, as well as cut songs. The core of the book is the commentary on the music itself. West Side Story is one of the very few Broadway musicals for which there is a complete published orchestral score, as well as two different editions of the piano-vocal score. The survival of the original copied orchestral score, and the reminiscences of Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal, reveal details of the orchestration process, and the extent to which Bernstein was involved in this. Simeone concludes by placing West Side Story in the context of Bernstein's oeuvre as well as considering the lasting impact and reputation of the show.

There's a Place For Us: The Musical Theatre Works of Leonard Bernstein

Helen Smith

Author : Helen Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351539234

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There's a Place For Us: The Musical Theatre Works of Leonard Bernstein by Helen Smith Pdf

Leonard Bernstein was the quintessential American musician. Through his careers as conductor, pianist, teacher and television personality he became known across the US and the world, his flamboyance and theatricality making him a favourite with audiences, if not with critics. However, he is perhaps best remembered as a composer, particularly of the musical West Side Story, and for songs such as 'America', 'Tonight' and 'Somewhere'. Dr Helen Smith takes an in-depth look at all eight of Bernstein's musical theatre works, from the early On the Town written by the 26-year-old composer at the start of his career, to his second and last opera A Quiet Place in 1983; in between these two pieces he composed music for Trouble in Tahiti, Wonderful Town, Candide, West Side Story, Mass and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. These works are analysed and considered against a background of musical and social context, as well as looking at Bernstein's other orchestral, choral and chamber works. One important aspect examined is Bernstein's use of motifs in his theatre compositions, which takes them out of the realms of Broadway and into the sphere of symphonic writing. Smith provides an indispensable overview of the musical theatre works of an eclectic composer, and shows what it is that constitutes the Bernstein 'sound'.

Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story

Nigel Simeone

Author : Nigel Simeone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351560375

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Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story by Nigel Simeone Pdf

One of the Broadway musicals that can genuinely claim to have transformed the genre, West Side Story has been featured in many books on Broadway, but it has yet to be the focus of a scholarly monograph. Nigel Simeone begins by exploring the long process of creating West Side Story, including a discussion of Bernstein's sketches, early drafts of the score and script, as well as cut songs. The core of the book is a commentary on the music itself. West Side Story is one of the very few Broadway musicals for which there is a complete published orchestral score, as well as two different editions of the piano-vocal score. The survival of the original copied orchestral score, and the reminiscences of Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal, reveal details of the orchestration process, and the extent to which Bernstein was involved in this. Simeone's commentary considers: musical characteristics and compositional techniques used to mirror the drama (for example, the various uses of the tritone), motivic development, the use and reinvention of Broadway and other conventions, the creation of dramatic continuity in the score through the use of motifs and other devices, the unusual degree of dissonance and rhythmic complexity (at least for the time), and the integration of Latin-American dance forms (Mambo, Huapango and so on). Simeone also considers the reception of West Side Story in the contemporary press. The stir the show caused included the response that it was the angular, edgy score that made it a remarkable achievement. Not all reviews were uncritical. Finally, the book looks in detail at the making of the original Broadway cast recording, made in just one day, included on the accompanying CD.

The Leonard Bernstein Letters

Leonard Bernstein

Author : Leonard Bernstein
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 903 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300186543

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The Leonard Bernstein Letters by Leonard Bernstein Pdf

“With their intellectual brilliance, humor and wonderful eye for detail, Leonard Bernstein’s letters blow all biographies out of the water.”—The Economist (2013 Book of the Year) Leonard Bernstein was a charismatic and versatile musician—a brilliant conductor who attained international superstar status, and a gifted composer of Broadway musicals (West Side Story), symphonies (Age of Anxiety), choral works (Chichester Psalms), film scores (On the Waterfront), and much more. Bernstein was also an enthusiastic letter writer, and this book is the first to present a wide-ranging selection of his correspondence. The letters have been selected for the insights they offer into the passions of his life—musical and personal—and the extravagant scope of his musical and extra-musical activities. Bernstein’s letters tell much about this complex man, his collaborators, his mentors, and others close to him. His galaxy of correspondents encompassed, among others, Aaron Copland, Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Robbins, Thornton Wilder, Boris Pasternak, Bette Davis, Adolph Green, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and family members including his wife Felicia and his sister Shirley. The majority of these letters have never been published before. They have been carefully chosen to demonstrate the breadth of Bernstein’s musical interests, his constant struggle to find the time to compose, his turbulent and complex sexuality, his political activities, and his endless capacity for hard work. Beyond all this, these writings provide a glimpse of the man behind the legends: his humanity, warmth, volatility, intellectual brilliance, wonderful eye for descriptive detail, and humor. “The correspondence from and to the remarkable conductor is full of pleasure and insights.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) “Exhaustive, thrilling [and] indispensable.”—USA Today (starred review)

Bernstein on Broadway

Leonard Bernstein

Author : Leonard Bernstein
Publisher : Boosey & Hawkes Incorporated
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015070679546

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Bernstein on Broadway by Leonard Bernstein Pdf

(P/V/G Composer Collection). 30 songs from Leonard Bernstein's revered Broadway shows, including West Side Story, Candide, On the Town, Wonderful Town, Peter Pan , and more, with plot notes, insightful facts, quotes from Bernstein and a bio. Includes a foreword by conductor John Mauceri, and the hits: America * I Feel Pretty * Lonely Town * Maria * New York, New York * Ohio * One Hand, One Heart * Somewhere * Tonight * and more.

Leonard Bernstein

Burton Bernstein,Barbara Haws

Author : Burton Bernstein,Barbara Haws
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062043146

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Leonard Bernstein by Burton Bernstein,Barbara Haws Pdf

One of the most gifted, celebrated, scrutinized, and criticized musicians in the second half of the twentieth century, Leonard Bernstein made his legendary conducting debut at the New York Philharmonic in 1943, at age 25. A year later, he became a sensation on Broadway with the premiere of On the Town. Throughout the 1950s, his Broadway fame only grew with Wonderful Town, Candide, and West Side Story. And in 1958, the Philharmonic appointed him the first American Music Director of a major symphony orchestra—a signal historical event. He was adored as a quintessential celebrity but one who could do it all—embracing both popular and classical music, a natural with the new medium of television, a born teacher, writer, and speaker, as well as a political and social activist. In 1976, having conducted the Philharmonic for more than one thousand concerts, he took his orchestra on tour to Europe for the last time. All of this played out against the backdrop of post-Second World War New York City as it rose to become the cultural capital of the world—the center of wealth, entertainment, communications, and art—and continued through the chaotic and galvanizing movements of the 1960s that led to its precipitous decline by the mid 1970s. The essays within this book do not simply retell the Bernstein story; instead, Leonard Bernstein's brother, Burton Bernstein, and current New York Philharmonic archivist and historian, Barbara B. Haws, have brought together a distinguished group of contributors to examine Leonard Bernstein's historic relationship with New York City and its celebrated orchestra. Composer John Adams, American historians Paul Boyer and Jonathan Rosenberg, music historians James Keller and Joseph Horowitz, conductor and radio commentator Bill McGlaughlin, musicologist Carol Oja, and music critics Tim Page and Alan Rich have written incisive essays, which are enhanced by personal reminiscences from Burton Bernstein. The result is a telling portrait of Leonard Bernstein, the musician and the man.

Bernstein Meets Broadway

Carol J. Oja

Author : Carol J. Oja
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199343621

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Bernstein Meets Broadway by Carol J. Oja Pdf

Winner of the 2015 Music in American Culture Award from the American Musicological Society When Leonard Bernstein first arrived in New York City, he was an unknown artist working with other brilliant twentysomethings, notably Jerome Robbins, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green. By the end of the 1940s, these artists were world famous. Their collaborations defied artistic boundaries and subtly pushed a progressive political agenda, altering the landscape of musical theater, ballet, and nightclub comedy. In Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War, award-winning author and scholar Carol J. Oja examines the early days of Bernstein's career during World War II, centering around the debut in 1944 of the Broadway musical On the Town and the ballet Fancy Free. As a composer and conductor, Bernstein experienced a meteoric rise to fame, thanks in no small part to his visionary colleagues. Together, they focused on urban contemporary life and popular culture, featuring as heroes the itinerant sailors who bore the brunt of military service. They were provocative both artistically and politically. In a time of race riots and Japanese internment camps, Bernstein and his collaborators featured African American performers and a Japanese American ballerina, staging a model of racial integration. Rather than accepting traditional distinctions between high and low art, Bernstein's music was wide-open, inspired by everything from opera and jazz to cartoons. Oja shapes a wide-ranging cultural history that captures a tumultuous moment in time. Bernstein Meets Broadway is an indispensable work for fans of Broadway musicals, dance, and American performance history.

West Side Story

Elizabeth A. Wells

Author : Elizabeth A. Wells
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810876668

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Wells presents a scholarly study of the American musical West Side Story, viewing the work from cultural, historical, and musical perspectives. --from publisher description.

West Side Story

Leonard Bernstein,Arthur Laurents

Author : Leonard Bernstein,Arthur Laurents
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : American drama
ISBN : 0435235281

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West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein,Arthur Laurents Pdf

This series of contemporary plays includes structured GCSE assignments for use by individuals or groups. These include questions which involve close reading, writing and discussion. This play places the "Romeo and Juliet" story in a New York gang-warfare context.

West Side Story, Gypsy, and the Art of Broadway Orchestration

Paul Laird

Author : Paul Laird
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780429662737

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West Side Story, Gypsy, and the Art of Broadway Orchestration by Paul Laird Pdf

In this ground-breaking study, Paul Laird examines the process and effect of orchestration in West Side Story and Gypsy, two musicals that were among the most significant Broadway shows of the 1950s, and remain important in the modern repertory. Drawing on extensive archival research with original manuscripts, Laird provides a detailed account of the process of orchestration for these musicals, and their context in the history of Broadway orchestration. He argues that the orchestration plays a vital role in the characterization and plot development in each major musical number, opening a new avenue for analysis that deepens our understanding of the musical as an art form. The orchestration of the score in Broadway musicals deeply shapes their final soundscapes, but only recently has it begun to receive real attention. Linked by a shared orchestrator, in other ways West Side Story and Gypsy offer a study in contrasts. Breaking down how the two composers, Leonard Bernstein and Jules Styne, collaborated with orchestrators Sid Ramin, Irwin Kostal, and Robert Ginzler, Laird’s study enables us to better understand both of these two iconic shows, and the importance of orchestration within musical theatre in general.

Leonard Bernstein and Washington, DC

Daniel Abraham,Alicia Kopfstein-Penk,Andrew H. Weaver

Author : Daniel Abraham,Alicia Kopfstein-Penk,Andrew H. Weaver
Publisher : Eastman Studies in Music
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781580469739

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Leonard Bernstein and Washington, DC by Daniel Abraham,Alicia Kopfstein-Penk,Andrew H. Weaver Pdf

Composer, conductor, activist, and icon of twentieth-century America, Leonard Bernstein (1918-90) had a rich association with Washington, DC. Although he never lived there, the U.S. capital was the site of some of the most important moments in his life and work, as he engaged with the nation's struggles and triumphs. By examining Bernstein through the lens of DC, this book offers new insights into his life and music from the 1940s through the 1980s, including his role in building DC's artistic landscape, his political-diplomatic aims, his works that received premieres and other early performances in DC, and his relationships with the nation's liberal and conservative political elites. The collection also contributes new perspectives on twentieth-century American history, government, and culture, helping to elucidate the political function of music in American democracy. The essays in Leonard Bernstein and Washington, DC, all newly written by leading authorities, situate this important American cultural figure in the seat of United States government. The result is a fresh new angle on Leonard Bernstein, American politics, and American culture in the second half of the twentieth century. Daniel Abraham is Professor of Music at American University, Alicia Kopfstein-Penk is Adjunct Professorial Lecturer at American University, and Andrew H. Weaver is Professor of Musicology at The Catholic University of America.

Leonard Bernstein 1918 - 1990

Cornelia Gitterle

Author : Cornelia Gitterle
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783638385121

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Leonard Bernstein 1918 - 1990 by Cornelia Gitterle Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: Gut, University of Innsbruck (Amerikanistik), course: SE: American Music: From Blues to Bernstein, language: English, abstract: Leonard Bernstein was one of the most talented and successful musicians in American history. He was a not only a composer but also a conductor, pianist, author and lecturer. His diversity is also reflected in his music: He wrote jazzy as well as classical music; he composed very successful Broadway-musicals as well as symphonic works, ballets, songs and piano works. This paper will first give an overview of Bernstein’s life, career and music and will then present him in his cultural context. Although Bernstein was a versatile musician, he is mainly remembered for his popular musicals such as On the Town and West Side Story. In the second part of this paper the focus will particularly be on West Side Story, because with this work Leonard Bernstein added a new dimension to the Broadway musical by integrating a serious subject and by collaborating in an operatic type of musical in which drama, singing and dancing are of equal importance.

The Great White Way

Warren Hoffman

Author : Warren Hoffman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781978807112

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The Great White Way by Warren Hoffman Pdf

An investigation into the ways in which race and ethnicity have shaped the American musical over the course of the twentieth century up through today

My Sister Eileen

Joseph A. Fields,Jerome Chodorov

Author : Joseph A. Fields,Jerome Chodorov
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822208016

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My Sister Eileen by Joseph A. Fields,Jerome Chodorov Pdf

THE STORY: As decribed in the World Telegram, The new play recounts only the twelve months' period encompassed by the signing of a lease on a Greenwich Village basement apartment and the evacuation thereof, and a few of the amazing adventures that

Bernstein On Broadway

Bernstein Meets Broadway by Carol J. Oja Pdf

Leonard Bernstein, West Side Story by Nigel Simeone Pdf

There's a Place For Us: The Musical Theatre Works of Leonard Bernstein by Helen Smith Pdf

Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story by Nigel Simeone Pdf

The Leonard Bernstein Letters by Leonard Bernstein Pdf

Bernstein on Broadway by Leonard Bernstein Pdf

Leonard Bernstein by Burton Bernstein,Barbara Haws Pdf

Bernstein Meets Broadway by Carol J. Oja Pdf

West Side Story by Elizabeth A. Wells Pdf

West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein,Arthur Laurents Pdf

West Side Story, Gypsy, and the Art of Broadway Orchestration by Paul Laird Pdf

Leonard Bernstein and Washington, DC by Daniel Abraham,Alicia Kopfstein-Penk,Andrew H. Weaver Pdf

Leonard Bernstein 1918 - 1990 by Cornelia Gitterle Pdf

The Great White Way by Warren Hoffman Pdf

My Sister Eileen by Joseph A. Fields,Jerome Chodorov Pdf

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