Evening At Pops 2002: Program Descriptions: Leonard Bernstein bernstein (19181990) Music was almost too puny a world to contain the outsizedtalents of leonard bernstein. As teacher, pianist, conductor, composer and http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pops/programnotes/20020707_bernstein.html
Extractions: Part of that legacy is an unusual musical theater piece called Candide. Like Bernstein himself, it's uncategorizable. Better, perhaps, to describe it rather than pigeonhole it as opera, musical comedy, operetta, or a concert work (although it's been presented in all these forms). Based on Voltaire's 1759 short novel of the same name, Candide is pointed satire of the current (and often revived) view of the world embodied in the saying, "All's for the best in this best of all possible worlds." The hapless Candide is beset by nearly ceaseless calamity. Even good fortune, when it appears, exacts quite a toll. In 1956 Bernstein shaped the novel into a stage work, retaining the story and adding songs which both illuminate the plot and make fun of different musical styles. There are mock Gilbert and Sullivan numbers, a ludicrously show-offy number for soprano ("Glitter and be Gay") as well as a withering spoof of the old fashioned movie music of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy that manages between its yodels to be achingly beautiful.
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Extractions: Biography: Leonard Bernstein August 25, 1918 - October 14, 1990 Leonard Bernstein was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He took piano lessons as a boy and attended the Garrison and Boston Latin Schools. At Harvard University, he studied with Walter Piston, Edward Burlingame-Hill, and A. Tillman Merritt, among others. Before graduating in 1939, he made an unofficial conducting debut with his own incidental music to "The Birds," and directed and performed in Marc Blitstein's "The Cradle Will Rock." Then at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, he studied piano with Isabella Vengerova, conducting with Fritz Reiner, and orchestration with Randall Thompson. In 1940, he studied at the Boston Symphony Orchestra's newly created summer institute, Tanglewood, with the orchestra's conductor, Serge Koussevitzky. Bernstein later became Koussevitzky's conducting assistant. Bernstein was appointed to his first permanent conducting post in 1943, as Assistant Conductor of the New York Philharmonic. On November 14, 1943, Bernstein substituted on a few hours notice for the ailing Bruno Walter at a Carnegie Hall concert, which was broadcast nationally on radio, receiving critical acclaim. Soon orchestras worldwide sought him out as a guest conductor. In 1945 he was appointed Music Director of the New York City Symphony Orchestra, a post he held until 1947. After Serge Koussevitzky died in 1951, Bernstein headed the orchestral and conducting departments at Tanglewood, teaching there for many years. In 1951 he married the Chilean actress and pianist, Felicia Montealegre. He was also visiting music professor, and head of the Creative Arts Festivals at Brandeis University in the early 1950s.
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Extractions: Ollmann possess a full yet gentle baritone and Castle a rich, florid mezzo-soprano. Balance between the two was sometimes an issue, but the chemistry during duets was not. The two have performed this particular song cycle worldwide, and their experience shows in its finish. He stole the show, which was only appropriate. For more than 20 years, he was the show. Published: 9:08 AM 2/03/03 Technical questions and comments may be directed to The Capital Times
Bernstein, Leonard Useful websites bernstein.com, Biography leonard bernstein Composer and 1918 Died14 Oct 1990 bernstein was a stage as composer, conductor, pianist and teacher. http://www.artsworld.com/music-dance/biographies/a-c/leonard-bernstein.html
Extractions: Bernstein was a larger than life figure on the world's music stage as composer, conductor, pianist and teacher. His generosity of spirit was impressive. A brilliant conductor, he made hundreds of recordings with the world's leading orchestras, and was particularly famous for his recordings of Haydn and Mahler. His own musicals 'West Side Story', 'Candide' and music for the film 'On the Waterfront' made him known to the general public. Bernstein - born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and known as 'Louis' until he was 16 - studied piano from the age of ten. At the age of 14, he took lessons from Helen Coates in Boston, remaining devoted to her all his life. He gave school concerts and conducted an amateur production of Carmen when he was 16. In 1935, he went to Harvard and met the composers Walter Piston and Aaron Copland. Through Dmitri Mitropoulos, he became interested in conducting professionally, and studied under Fritz Reiner in 1939 at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. At Tanglewood, in 1940 and 1941, he came under the more lasting influence of Sergei Koussevitzky. He admired and loved this famous conductor and, in turn, Koussevitzky recognised Bernstein's genius and did all he could to promote his career. In 1942, 'Lennie', as he was now known, moved to New York and became assistant conductor to Artur Rodzinski at the New York Philharmonic. That autumn, Bruno Walter was due to conduct the orchestra but fell ill. Rodzinski, four-hours drive away said: 'Call Bernstein!'. The concert was a huge success, the story hit the headlines and Bernstein became famous almost overnight.
CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography Of Leonard Bernstein Biography from the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music.Category Arts Music Composition Composers B bernstein, leonard bernstein, leonard Louis (b Lawrence, Mass., 1918; d NY, 1990). Amer. composer,conductor, and pianist. Educated Boston Latin Sch. and at Harvard Univ. http://www.classicalarchives.com/bios/codm/bernstein.html
Extractions: Bernstein, Leonard [Louis] b Lawrence, Mass., 1918; d , Boston, 1949. Taught at Tanglewood 1951-5 in orch. and cond. dept.; part-time prof. of mus., Brandeis Univ. 1951-5. Peter Grimes . Cond. his own Trouble in Tahiti at Brandeis, 1952, and Cherubini's Medea (with Callas) at La Scala 1953 (the first Amer. to conduct there), returning to cond. La sonnambula Falstaff Jeremiah Fancy Free , with choreog. by Jerome Robbins, was perf. in NY. Later the same year his musical On the Town began a Broadway run of 463 perfs. He made a comic operetta from Voltaire's novel
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Extractions: Biography work bibliography press cuttings US pianist, composer, and conductor. He was educated at Harvard, the Curtis Institute of Music in Philidelphia, and the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood. He moved to New York City in 1942 and worked as an accompanist for dance classes. He was appointed assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra on his 25th. birthday on 25th. August, 1943. When Bruno Walter was ill, Leonard Bernstein substituted for him at Carnegie Hall and suddenly achieved fame. From 1945 to 1947 he was music director of the New York City Symphony Orchestra. In 1947 he was guest conductor for the Symphony Orchestra in Palestine (then a British protectorate, but later to become Israel). In 1948 he was guest conductor in Austria and West Germany. He married the actress Felicia Montealegre Cohn in 1951. They had two daughters and one son. His Young People's Concerts were held between 1958 and 1972 and were televised each season.
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Extractions: Bernstein, from a family of Russian Jewish immigrants, was given the name Louis by his parents. Later, to avoid confusion with another Louis Bernstien, he changed his name to Leonard. He studied music at Harvard and at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. At Tanglewood he studied with Serge Koussevitzky, the noted bassist and conductor. In 1958 he became Music Director of the New York Philharmonic where he created a famous series of television broadcasts for children, The Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra. Bernstein was a pianist, composer, and music educator of high standing in 20th century music. He died of heart failure in October of 1990.
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Extractions: October 25, 2001 When American musical genius Leonard Bernstein died in 1990, some obituary writers, including those in The New York Times and Baltimore Sun, suggested that Bernstein had spread himself too thin, and should have focused on one area of music. "My question to them is: Which area would you have had him sacrifice? Pianist? Teacher? Conductor? Composer? He excelled at all of them," said a slightly perturbed Ken Meltzer, Pittsburgh Symphony community spokesperson. An unabashed admirer of Bernstein's, Meltzer referred to the dynamic musician alternately as "one of the great musical teachers of his era," "a first-class concert pianist," "a podium giant" and "among the top American composers" in his lecture, "The Career of Maestro Leonard Bernstein." The Oct. 18 lecture was co-sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program and the Israel Heritage Nationality Classroom committee. Meltzer punctuated his lecture with video and audio tapes of Bernstein's multi-faceted career, including his legendary debut as a conductor at age 25 when he filled in on a few hours' notice for the principal conductor of the New York Philharmonic. Meltzer said that Bernstein almost did not pursue music because his immigrant father, Samuel, opposed it. The elder Bernstein had seen musicians in Eastern Europe barely eking out a living, sometimes playing for change in the streets. No son of his would do that, Meltzer said. Samuel, who had a successful beauty supply business, tried to dissuade Leonard from studying music, actually forbidding his son from playing the piano at home. The young Leonard would sneak off to a neighbor's house to practice.
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Extractions: The son of a Russian-Jewish immigrant, who had worked himself up from nothing to become a successful businessman, Leonard Bernstein was born in Massachusetts, in 1918. From the first, his father discouraged him from taking music seriously. Where Sam Bernstein came from, musicians were 'the lowest of the low'. He sent his son to Boston Latin, one of the most academically demanding schools in America, where the boy excelled at everything, effortlessly. Harvard followed and Lenny had the same success, musically and socially. 1943 marked a turning point in Bernstein's life. Only three years out of Harvard, he was made assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. The appointment was amazing as it was unheard of for the orchestra to have an American conductor, and Bernstein was only 25. By the time West Side Story was first produced in 1957, Bernstein was at the peak of his career. Though not yet 40, he had already composed two full-length symphonies, a ballet and scores for three Broadway musicals. For the next 20 years, feeling he had paid his theatre dues, he abandoned the stage and pursued a hectic career of conducting, recording, lecturing and composing for the concert hall. In 1958, he became music director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. His response was characteristically nonchalant. His old friend Sid Ramin describes a tram ride he took with Bernstein at the time. He followed him to the back of the tram where Bernstein lay down and then told him of the new job. Ramin says, 'All I could think of was this is the music director of the New York Philharmonic. Lying down in a Philadelphia streetcar.'
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Extractions: Hugh Wheeler Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein was born on August 25, 1918 in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1940, and took his first permanent conducting post as assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in 1943, then became music director of the New York City Symphony Orchestra (1945 - 1947). From 1951 to 1956 he was head of the conducting faculty at Brandeis University. His first TV appearance was in 1954, conducting Beethoven's Fifth Symphony for CBS' Omnibus . In 1958 he became the music director of the New York Philharmonic (1958 - 1969). The first of his Young People's Concerts was televised in 1958 on CBS, and continued until 1972, winning four Emmy Awards. Bernstein's orchestral works include Jeremiah (1944, his first large-scale symphonic work), The Age of Anxiety (Symphony No. 2) Trouble in Tahiti (a one-act opera) (1952)
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Extractions: Pronunciation Key Bernstein, Leonard , American composer, conductor, and pianist, b. Lawrence, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1939, and Curtis Institute of Music, 1941. A highly versatile musician, he was the composer of symphonic works (the Jeremiah Symphony, 1944; Age of Anxiety, Kaddish Symphony, 1963), song cycles, chamber music, ballets ( Fancy Free, 1944), musicals ( On the Town, Wonderful Town, Candide, West Side Story, 1957), opera ( Trouble in Tahiti, 1952), and choral music ( Chichester Psalms, 1965). His Mass See his The Joy of Music (1959) and The Infinite Variety of Music (1966); biographies by J. Briggs (1961), J. Gruen (1968), H. Burton (1994), and M. Secrest (1994).
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Extractions: I staden Lawrence, i England den 25 augusti 1918 föddes en blivande pianist, tonsättare och dirigent, Leonard Bernstien döptes han till. När Bernstein föddes hade han ingen som helst begåvning av musik, utan enbart ett intresse som han senare jobbade upp till en begåvning. Bernsteins föräldrar var ryskjudiska invandrare. Hans pappa gillade inte att han höll på med musiken utan ville att han skulle bli fiskhandlare precis som han själv var, men en dag förstod pappan tillslut att pojken hade en enorm talang inom musiken, så han accepterade tillslut att de var musik han skulle ägna sitt liv åt. Som student läste Leonard Bernstein till pianist men ägnade sig samtidigt åt komposition. Sitt stora genombrott fick han dock den 14 november 1943 då Bruno Walter som skulle dirigera New York Philharmonic, hastigt insjuknade. Istället fick då Bernstein ta över hans roll som dirigent i direktsänd radio, efter det var det Bernstein som gällde, och det var hans namn som regerade på löpsedlarna.
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