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Harpist Mary Dicken and organist Matthew Vanover will join Central's Concert Choir for a performance of Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms. Soprano Elizabeth Broshears will be the guest soloist with the choir. Central's Intermediate and Beginning...
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Lang said. "I am looking forward to talking to the audience about what the words mean to me and how that might give a listener a doorway through which they can hear this music better." Lang's passion for music was sparked when he was a child. "I became...
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FILE This is a 1976 file photo of pianist Alexis Weissenberg. left, and Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan , as they go over a part at the grand piano in West Berlin. Bulgarian-born pianist Alexis Weissenberg, whose love of music from the age of 3... View Photo »
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Intimate Scenes with Leonard Bernstein
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The station replaced an anti-Chávez channel that the government had effectively shut down. Mr. Dudamel also led a rousing version of the “Mambo” from Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story” in a giant outdoor celebration of Venezuela’s bicentennial that...
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However, I feel his thinking is a little short-sighted. Here’s a simple question: What would have happened to the New York Philharmonic’s repertoire if Leonard Bernstein (a Jew) had decided that Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler, or heaven forbid, Vivaldi (all...
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Working with the Neue Lausitzer Philharmonie, in which he holds the post of chief conductor, he undertook a memorable five-concert tour with mezzo Patricia Basch and cellist Raphael Wallfisch last month. With music by Bloch and Lukas Foss rounded off...
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Leonard Bernstein's music is so inventive and cleverly done, moving the story forward
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I’m very glad we are able to do this right now. For me, commissioning is very important. This is how our art will continue to live.” The regular season opens on Sept. 20 with pianist Jon Nakamatsu playing George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” in a...
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It was they, after all, who brought it to the wider world under their most celebrated music director Leonard Bernstein. But Alan Gilbert, the current incumbent, is no Bernstein - few are - and to have begun rather than ended this three-day residency at...
About Leonard Bernstein
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Leonard Bernstein (pronounced /ˈbɝːnstaɪn/ "BERN-stine"; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award nominated American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was the first conductor born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim. He is perhaps best known for... Full Article
