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5 days ago · Leonard Bernstein, the character at the centre of Maestro, a new film from director (and star) Bradley Cooper, was not just a great conductor. While the word maestro certainly sums up his career, ego and personality, early in the film Lenny (as he was affectionately known) lists all his achievements, then somewhat dryly sums himself up as “a ...
6 days ago · West Side Story is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents . Inspired by William Shakespeare 's play Romeo and Juliet, the story is set in the mid-1950s in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, then a multiracial, blue-collar neighborhood.
2 days ago · Douglass Fake, founder of leading movie soundtrack label Intrada and producer of more than 700 albums of movie and TV music, died Saturday at a Richmond, Calif., hospital after a long illness. He was 72. Fake’s many credits include the first complete restoration of Leonard Bernstein’s “On the Waterfront,” a lavish 5-CD release of Elmer …
3 days ago · Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s “The New York Philharmonic This Week”. From the archives you’ll hear Leonard Bernstein lead the Philharmonic in Borodin’s “In the Steppes of Central Aisa” and Shostakovich’s “7th Symphony”, “Leningrad”.
5 days ago · Cuando en 1957 se presentó en Broadway West Side Story, con música de Leonard Bernstein y letras de Stephen Sondheim, los musicales no volvieron a ser iguale...
3 days ago · Leonard Bernstein premiered his Chichester Psalms on July 15th, 1965. Composed on a commission from the Chichester Cathedral in England, the work is an uplifting prayer for peace with texts of ...
4 days ago · As always, we conclude with a much-needed prayer for peace. : ““My House” by Leonard Bernstein (from James M. Barrie’s play “Peter Pan”) and “Oseh Shalom” of Jeff Klepper) : Cantor Sam Rosen. : CBST Music Director Joyce Rosenzweig. For more wonderful settings, be in community with CBST at Kabbalat Shabbat services, Fridays at 6: ...
