Leonard Bernstein and his young people's concerts / Alicia Kopfstein-Penk ; foreword by Marin Alsop.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kopfstein-Penk, Alicia, author.

Alsop, Marin, author of introduction, etc.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990.

Bernstein, Leonard.

Young people's concerts (Television program).

Music--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Music.

Music--United States--20th century--History and criticism.

Music--Social aspects.

United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2015.

Place of Publication:

Lanham [Maryland] : Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Leonard Bernstein touched millions of lives as composer, conductor, teacher, and activist.He frequently visited homes around the world through the medium of television, particularly through his fifty-three award-winning Young People's Concerts (1958-1972), which at their height were seen by nearly ten million in over forty countries.

Contents:

Background : who, when, and how

Decisions : topics, pieces, and performers

The postmodernist : highbrow, lowbrow, and middlebrow joined

The television pioneer : origins, competition, success

The pacifist : the cold war intrudes

The liberal : civil rights, feminism, and the counterculture

The musical reactionary : atonality versus tonality or composer versus audience

The advocate for American music : search for an American identity.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-8182-711-3

979-82-16-24128-7

0-8108-8850-5

OCLC:

905919277