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The Skin of Our Teeth (1964): an aborted work from which Bernstein took material to use in his "Chichester Psalms" Alarums and Flourishes (1980): an aborted work from which Bernstein took material to use in "A Quiet Place" Tucker: an aborted concept for a musical version of the 1988 film "Tucker: The Man and His Dream"
Songfest: A Cycle of American Poems for Six Singers and Orchestra is a 1977 song cycle by Leonard Bernstein. The cycle consists of 12 settings of 13 American poems, performed by six singers in solos, duets, a trio, and three sextets. The work was intended as a tribute to the 1976 American Bicentennial but was not finished in time. Each poem ...
The New York Philharmonic concert of April 6, 1962, is widely regarded as one of the most controversial in the orchestra's history. Featuring a performance by Glenn Gould of the First Piano Concerto of Johannes Brahms, conducted by its music director, Leonard Bernstein, the concert became famous because of Bernstein's remarks from the podium prior to the concerto.
The exoticism of the Arabian Nights continued to interest Ravel. In the early years of the 20th century he met the poet Tristan Klingsor, [6] who had recently published a collection of free-verse poems under the title Shéhérazade, inspired by Rimsky-Korsakov's symphonic suite of the same name, a work that Ravel also much admired. [7]
Maurice Ravel. La valse, poème chorégraphique pour orchestre (a choreographic poem for orchestra), is a work written by Maurice Ravel between February 1919 and 1920; it was first performed on 12 December 1920 in Paris.
Conductor Alfred Savia (center) met Leonard Bernstein (left) while the former was a graduate student at Butler University. Bernstein visited in 1976 to hear part of a festival dedicated to his music.
'Maestro,' Bradley Cooper's opus on Leonard Bernstein, is a superb and deeply felt film. Read TIME's review. Venice Review: Leonard Bernstein Comes to Life, Gloriously, in Maestro
Bernstein recorded the Symphonic Dances with the New York Philharmonic in 1961, [8] and with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1983. [9] The suite has entered the repertoire of many orchestras around the world and has been recorded by such orchestras as the San Francisco Symphony under the direction of Seiji Ozawa in 1972.