Leonard Bernstein : the Harvard years 1935-1939 / edited by Claudia Swan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Swan, Claudia.

Series:

Eos (New York, N.Y.) ; 4.

Eos ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990.

Bernstein, Leonard.

Physical Description:

v, 91 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : The Eos Orchestra, [1999]

Summary:

This volume of essays and images explores Leonard Bernstein's Harvard period, and his achievements as scholar, teacher, composer. The book illuminates Bernstein's grappling with American music, and searching for one that synthesized the diverse influences he had heard (Jewish music, Stravinsky, American pop). Bernstein's composing career, like Gershwin's, gives the complexity of American music a sound, and as Gershwin went from Tin Pan Alley to the opera house, Bernstein experienced many different types of music before finding his voice among them.

Contents:

Foreword / Jonathan Sheffer

Bernstein at Harvard: the artist and the escape artist / David Wright

An interview with Vivian Perlis ; Boston carries on ; Music ; "Dear Helen...": a letter from Leonard B. / Leonard Bernstein

Chronology

Leonard Bernstein at Boston Latin School / Ron Gwiazda

Lenny at Harvard (Reminiscence) / Harold Shapero

Composing (for a) philosophical comedy / Bernadette A. Meyler

"Not so much New Deal as Old Howard": Leonard Bernstein and Aristophanes' The birds / Timothy W. Boyd and Carolyn Higbie.

Notes:

"Published in conjunction with Leonard Bernstein, the Harvard years 1935-1939 produced by the Eos Orchestra, January 28, 1999"--half title.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

096480834X :

OCLC:

41502300