Experiencing Leonard Bernstein (eBook)
220 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-3544-1 (ISBN)
Leonard Bernstein is a household name. Most know him for his classic musical reworking of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet as Broadway's West Side Story. But Bernstein accomplished so much more as a composer, and his body of work is both broad and varied. He composed ballets (Fancy Free, Facsimile, Dybbuk), operas (Trouble in Tahiti, Candide, A Quiet Place), musicals (On the Town, Wonderful Town), film scores (On the Waterfront), symphonies, choral works, chamber music pieces, art songs, and piano works. In Experiencing Leonard Bernstein: A Listener's Companion, Kenneth LaFave guides readers past Bernstein's famously tortured personal problems and into the clarity and balance of his Serenade after Plato's Symposium for Violin and Orchestra, the intense drama of his music for On the Waterfront, the existential cosmography of his three symphonies, and his vibrant works for the musical stage. Perhaps the most famous American classical musician born in the twentieth century, Bernstein divided his time between composing, conducting, writing, and teaching, a busy scheduleespecially his conducting of major orchestrasthat set his work as composer at a disadvantage. Often generated in short spurts, his work carries an urgencyand even an element of improvisational geniusthat he flavored with his eclectic embrace of jazz, folk song, Jewish cantorial music, and innovations in contemporary classical theory. The result is a body of work that is beguilingly melodic, incomparably rhythmic, and irrepressibly individual.Experiencing Leonard Bernstein: A Listener's Companion is the ideal work for any reader seeking to learn how to listen across the spectrum of Bernstein's musical output.
Kenneth LaFave, former music critic for the Arizona Republic and the Kansas City Star, composes, teaches, and writes about music. The Phoenix Symphony, the Chicago String Quartet, and the Kansas City Chorale have commissioned scores from him, and his essays and reviews have appeared in NewMusicBox.org, Opera News, and Dance magazine. LaFave was a pit musician for the workshop production of Leonard Bernstein’s last (unfinished) musical, The Race to Urga.
Series Editor ForewordAcknowledgmentsTimelineIntroductionChapter 1: Father, Son, and MusicChapter 2: CelebrityChapter 3: Age of AnxietyChapter 4: Trouble In Tahiti and Wonderful TownChapter 5: On The Waterfront and Serenade After Plato’s SymposiumChapter 6: CandideChapter 7: West Side StoryChapter 8: Kaddish and Chichester PsalmsChapter 9: Mass and the Norton LecturesChapter 10: Last Works And LegacySelected ReadingSelected ListeningIndexAbout the Author
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.10.2014 |
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Reihe/Serie | Listener's Companion |
Zusatzinfo | 1 Illustrations including: - 1 Tables. |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical |
ISBN-10 | 1-4422-3544-6 / 1442235446 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4422-3544-1 / 9781442235441 |
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