Straight No Chaser - A Jazz Show (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
This year is the 90th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein's birth. Growing up the the 1960's and 70's, Bernstein was a towering cultural figure, a man who bridged high art (classical) with lower art (Broadway), while dabbling in religious music and just about everything else. He even improbably toyed with politics, as forever recorded by Tom Wolfe in a famous magazine article that...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
... Hills. 248-855-6070.As part of a tsunami of concerts, festivals and recordings in remembrance of Leonard Bernstein's 90th birthday, Deutsche Grammophon has issued a gaggle of concerts from the 1970s and '80s on DVD for the first time. The four videos -- which feature the conductor leading music by Ives, Gershwin, Tchaikovsky, Schumann and himself with the New York Philharmonic, Boston...
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Gary Lucas Lucas has played and collaborated with Leonard Bernstein, Captain Beefheart, Jeff Buckley, Chris Cornell, Lou Reed, John Cale, Nick Cave, David Johansen. He has also worked with Mary Margaret O'Hara, Onetwo, Peter Stampfel, Fred Schneider (B-52s), Bob Neuwirth,...
Sacred Miscellany (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
December 1, 1956 was the opening date for Leonard Bernstein's musical/operetta, "Candide." Book by Lillian Hellman, music by Bernstein – and it closed in two months. Forget the many revised versions, especially the anti-Catholic additions in the Harold Prince version....
PlaybillArts.com (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... music and liturgy in interesting ways. Another big, I might say, seismic influence on my life was Leonard Bernstein, who I met because he hired the cathedral choir to sing his third symphony around 1978. Later on, I went to see Mass—Bernstein’s Mass—that opened the Kennedy Center in 1971 and was revived a decade later. For Mass, LB asked me to act as his assistant during the...
Extreme Mortman (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Shades of Radical Chic? Here’s Move On on the Upper West Side, grappling with the reality of an Obama administration — which, of course,they wanted. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_GG5mb_tfo By the way, New York Magazine puts this in the YouTube category of “Comedy.” Tom Wolfe couldn’t have said it better himself. Too bad there isn’t also a YouTube category for “Adorably Earnest.” Also, too bad Leonard...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
"Eugene O'Neill rewrote compulsively; Bertolt Brecht published three alarmingly different versions of Galileo; and Leonard Bernstein's musical Candide burned through three book writers and lyricists (Dorothy Parker and James Agee among them). ... Instead of inventing an entirely new work, playwrights instead reduce, reuse and recycle. But is this really good for the theatrical environment?"...
brownstoner (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
... is now named). Then there's the attraction of the famous folk buried there: Jean Michel Basquiat, Leonard Bernstein and "Boss" Tweed among them. You Can Come and Go. They’re Staying Awhile. [NY Times] Photo by lostinbrooklyn .
New York Post (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
... of dances to American music - painstakingly divided into classical (Charles Ives, Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein) before the intermission, and jazz/pop (Wynton Marsalis, Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, Gershwin) afterward - didn't add up to a coherent whole. The best was "The Unanswered Question," an excerpt from George Balanchine's 1954 ballet "Ivesiana" in which the sturdy Daniel...
