- Title Pages
- Show Tunes
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- How to Use this Book
- Part I Composers of the Early Years
- Part II New Composers of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s
- Hugh Martin
- Leonard Bernstein
- Frederick Loewe
- Jule Styne
- Frank Loesser
- Richard Adler
- Jerry Bock
- Bob Merrill
- Meredith Willson
- Stephen Sondheim
- Charles Strouse
- Harvey Schmidt
- Cy Coleman
- Jerry Herman
- John Kander
- Mitch Leigh
- PART III New Composers of the 1970s and Beyond
- PART IV Notable Scores by Other Composers
- Appendix 1 Chronological Listing of Productions
- Appendix 2 Collaborator Reference Listing
- Appendix 3 Bibliography
- Song Title Index
- Show Index
- People Index
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
Born: August 25, 1918, Lawrence, Massachusetts
Died: October 14, 1990, New York, New York
- Chapter:
- (p.205) Leonard Bernstein
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- Author(s):
Steven Suskin
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter examines the work of Leonard Bernstein. It begins with an extended commentary of his career, followed by details on productions, with data and song information. Bernstein’s first theater experience came when the twenty-one-year-old Harvard music major mounted the 1939 Boston première of The Cradle will Rock (Blitzstein: June 16, 1937), also playing the onstage accompaniment. Marc Blitzstein attended, was duly impressed, and the two began a close friendship. Following graduation, Bernstein entered the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia—where Blitzstein had studied—to train for a career in symphonic music.
Keywords: Leonard Bernstein, Philadelphia, Broadway musicals, musical theater, The Cradle Will Rock, Marc Blitzstein
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- Title Pages
- Show Tunes
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- How to Use this Book
- Part I Composers of the Early Years
- Part II New Composers of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s
- Hugh Martin
- Leonard Bernstein
- Frederick Loewe
- Jule Styne
- Frank Loesser
- Richard Adler
- Jerry Bock
- Bob Merrill
- Meredith Willson
- Stephen Sondheim
- Charles Strouse
- Harvey Schmidt
- Cy Coleman
- Jerry Herman
- John Kander
- Mitch Leigh
- PART III New Composers of the 1970s and Beyond
- PART IV Notable Scores by Other Composers
- Appendix 1 Chronological Listing of Productions
- Appendix 2 Collaborator Reference Listing
- Appendix 3 Bibliography
- Song Title Index
- Show Index
- People Index