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We will perform a piece by Leonard Bernstein, and we will end the concert with three spirituals that will be directed by my daughter Kristen Hart, who is the choir’s assistant conductor
Like Benny Goodman was one of the first jazz bands to play at Carnegie Hall. Someone I look up to like Leonard Bernstein, he was a conductor there. To be somewhere where so many professionals, so many groundbreaking artists have played, to me is not only an honor, but just something not everyone gets to do.
Consider ...T S Eliot's The Wasteland and Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story, each works that revel in cultural plunder. Then consider Disney, which has cartoonised the fairy tale Cinderella and J M Barrie's Peter Pan but guards its own intellectual property fiercely.More quotes »
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Portland Ovations announces new season
trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, the Leonard Bernstein-Stephen Sondheim musical “West Side Story” and the slick-fingered stylings of banjo player Tony Trischka anchor the 2012-13 season of Portland Ovations. Bridgman/Packer Dance, Oct. 5-6, ICA at MECA Royal Drummers 5/30/12 from The Portland Maine Press Herald Read more »
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Michael Tilson Thomas: 'The most important thing about music is what happens when it stops'
over the Boston Symphony Orchestra, mid performance, when a conductor fell ill. It was a curious echo of what had happened to Leonard Bernstein a quarter of a century before when he had made his debut as a replacement for Bruno Walter with the New York Philharmonic. from The Guardian Music Read more »
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The wisdom of Wes Anderson: five things we learnt watching Moonrise Kingdom
the moment the sepia-tinged camera settles on a plastic record player (playing Leonard Bernstein's "Young Person's Guide To the Orchestra") and begins its sweeping, architecture-defying ballet to the title card (surprisingly not in Futura), the opening to from GQ Magazine UK Read more »
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Songs of Donna Summer and Leonard Bernstein Are Among Additions to the National Recording Registry
of Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" and Leonard Bernstein's first performance with the New York Philharmonic are among the entries added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress, according to the New York Times. Tony Award winner Bernstein, from Playbill Read more »
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Washington DC: Leonard Bernstein, Ruth Etting, Dolly Parton, Lillian Russell Added to National Recording Registry
for future generations. Among the newly added entries is the November 14, 1943 New York Philharmonic debut of a 25-year-old Leonard Bernstein, who was substituting at the last minute for both the regular and guest conductors; George and Ira Gershwin's "Fascinating from TheaterMania.com Read more »
