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Author : Leonard Bernstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1228809811
Author : Leonard Bernstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Clarinet and piano music, Arranged
ISBN : UOM:39015067677826
Author : Paul R. Laird
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780239514
Leonard Bernstein was one of twentieth-century music’s most successful and recognizable figures. In a career spanning five decades, he conducted many of the world’s leading orchestras and composed scores for landmark musicals such as West Side Story. With an iron self-belief, he negotiated risky and challenging musical situations that resulted in always passionate, if sometimes mixed, reviews. Published to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of Bernstein’s birth, this engaging new biography provides a concise overview of the life and work of a prodigiously talented, endlessly enthralling, and controversial musician. Drawing on more than thirty years of study, leading Bernstein scholar Paul R. Laird describes Bernstein’s work as a conductor, composer, music educator, and commentator, evaluating all of his major compositions. Laird also explores the impact of Bernstein’s complicated personal life on his professional work, including his homosexuality and many affairs with men, and his strong yet difficult marriage. Featuring original insights into Bernstein’s life and work, including information gleaned from a 1982 interview with Bernstein, Laird’s book is the ideal introduction to Bernstein’s eclectic musical style and complex character, showing how both fit within the larger world of twentieth-century music.
Author : Leonard Bernstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1075140913
Author : Leonard Bernstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Clarinet with jazz ensemble
ISBN : UOM:39015025404594
Author : Caroline Evensen Lazo
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822500728
Describes the life and career of the composer and conductor.
Author : Helen Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351539234
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'.
Author : Steve Schwartz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442257672
Populism and nationalism in classical music held a significant place between the world wars with composers such as George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, and Leonard Bernstein creating a soundtrack to the lives of everyday Americans. While biographies of these individual composers exist, no single book has taken on this period as a direct contradiction to the modernist dichotomy between the music of Stravinsky and Schoenberg. In Nationalist and Populist Composers: Voices of the American People, Steve Schwartz offers an overdue correction to this distortion of the American classical music tradition by showing that not all composers of this era fall into either the Stravinsky or Schoenberg camps. Exploring the rise and decline of musical populism in the United States, Schwartz examines the major works of George Gershwin, Randall Thompson, Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Kurt Weill, Morton Gould, and Leonard Bernstein. Organized chronologically, chapters cover each composer’s life and career and then reveal how key works participated in populist and nationalist themes. Written for the both the scholar and amateur enthusiast interested in modern classical music and American social history, Nationalist and Populist Composers creates a contextual frame through which all audiences can better understand such works as Rhapsody in Blue, Appalachian Spring, and West Side Story.
Author : Leonard Bernstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1263587119
Author : Katherine Baber
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252051210
Leonard Bernstein's gifts for drama and connecting with popular audiences made him a central figure in twentieth century American music. Though a Bernstein work might reference anything from modernism to cartoon ditties, jazz permeated every part of his musical identity as a performer, educator, and intellectual. Katherine Baber investigates how jazz in its many styles served Bernstein as a flexible, indeed protean, musical idea. As she shows, Bernstein used jazz to signify American identity with all its tensions and contradictions and to articulate community and conflict, irony and parody, and timely issues of race and gender. Baber provides a thoughtful look at how Bernstein's use of jazz grew out of his belief in the primacy of tonality, music's value as a unique form of human communication, and the formation of national identity in music. She also offers in-depth analyses of On the Town, West Side Story, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and other works to explore fascinating links between Bernstein's art and issues like eclecticism, music's relationship to social engagement, black-Jewish relations, and his own musical identity.
Author : Paul Laird
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317430438
Beginning with an introductory essay on his achievements, it continues with annotations on Bernstein's voluminous writings, performances, educational work, and major secondary sources.
Author : John Clifford
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813072012
A talented young dancer and his brilliant teacher In this long-awaited memoir, dancer and choreographer John Clifford offers a highly personal look inside the day-to-day operations of the New York City Ballet and its creative mastermind, George Balanchine. Balanchine’s Apprentice is the story of Clifford—an exceptionally talented artist—and the guiding inspiration for his life’s work in dance. Growing up in Hollywood with parents in show business, Clifford acted in television productions such as The Danny Kaye Show, The Dinah Shore Show, and Death Valley Days. He recalls the beginning of his obsession with ballet: At age 11 he was cast as the Prince in a touring production of The Nutcracker. The director was none other than the legendary Balanchine, who would eventually invite Clifford to New York City and shape his career as both a mentor and artistic example. During his dazzling tenure with the New York City Ballet, Clifford danced the lead in 47 works, several created for him by Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and others. He partnered famous ballerinas including Gelsey Kirkland and Allegra Kent. He choreographed eight ballets for the company, his first at age 20. He performed in Russia, Germany, France, and Canada. Afterward, he returned to the West Coast to found the Los Angeles Ballet, where he continued to innovate based on the Balanchine technique. In this book, Clifford provides firsthand insight into Balanchine’s relationships with his dancers, including Suzanne Farrell. Examining his own attachment to his charismatic teacher, Clifford explores questions of creative influence and integrity. His memoir is a portrait of a young dancer who learned and worked at lightning speed, who pursued the calls of art and genius on both coasts of America and around the world.
Author : Paul R. Laird,Hsun Lin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781538113455
Historical Dictionary of Leonard Bernstein contains a chronology, an introduction, an appendix, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries encompassing people whom he befriended or worked with, institutions, orchestras, performance venues, cities, compositional methods, and compositions.
Author : Kenneth LaFave
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442235441
Leonard Bernstein is a household name. Most know him for his classic musical reworking of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as Broadway’s West Side Story. But Bernstein accomplished so much more as a composer, and his body of work is both broad and varied. He composed ballets (Fancy Free, Facsimile, Dybbuk), operas (Trouble in Tahiti, Candide, A Quiet Place), musicals (On the Town, Wonderful Town), film scores (On the Waterfront), symphonies, choral works, chamber music pieces, art songs, and piano works. In Experiencing Leonard Bernstein: A Listener’s Companion, Kenneth LaFave guides readers past Bernstein’s famously tortured personal problems and into the clarity and balance of his Serenade after Plato’s Symposium for Violin and Orchestra, the intense drama of his music for On the Waterfront, the existential cosmography of his three symphonies, and his vibrant works for the musical stage. Perhaps the most famous American classical musician born in the twentieth century, Bernstein divided his time between c
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1560 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-25
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119498215