Leonard Bernstein : an American musician / Allen Shawn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shawn, Allen, author.

Series:

Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)

Jewish Lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990.

Bernstein, Leonard.

Musicians--United States--Biography.

Musicians.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 347 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]

Summary:

Chronicles the life and career of the composer and musician, focusing on his range of musical compositions, from "West Side Story" to "Kaddish."

"Leonard Bernstein stood at the epicenter of twentieth-century American musical life. His creative gifts knew no boundaries as he moved easily from the podium to the piano, and then to television with his nationally celebrated Young People's Concerts, which introduced an entire generation to the joy of classical music. Drawing on personal interviews, archival research, and his own immersion in the music, Allen Shawn delves beneath the trappings of fame, presenting Bernstein as a complex and deeply intelligent artist whose accomplishment as a composer is too often undervalued."--Back cover of paperback edition.

Contents:

Part one. Dust ; A piano ; Harvard ; Curtis, Tanglewood, Boston, and New York

Part two. Wonderful times ; Age of anxiety ; Serenade ; Broadway and Carnegie Hall ; What does music mean? ; At the center ; Chichester, Vienna, Mount Scopus

Part three. Questions and declarations ; Dybbuk ; In the garden ; Regrets, celebrations, and goodbyes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-330) and index.

National Jewish Book Awards - Jewish Book of the Year, Winner, 2014 (for Jewish Lives series)

ISBN:

9780300144284

0300144288

9780300219852

0300219857

OCLC:

876003162