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Conversations about Bernstein

Author: William Westbrook Burton
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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In Conversations About Bernstein, friends, critics, and collaborators, as well as the world-class musicians who shared the stage with Bernstein, remember the private artist behind the public flamboyance and acclaim. In an unprecedented series of interviews with author William Westbrook Burton, they reveal how Bernstein worked, the perennial conflicts in his personal and professional lives, and why he made the
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Genre/Form: Interviews
Biography
Entretiens
Named Person: Leonard Bernstein; Leonard Bernstein; Leonard Bernstein
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: William Westbrook Burton
ISBN: 0195079477 9780195079470
OCLC Number: 30069710
Description: xxxv, 198 p., [14] p. of plates : ill., port. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Introduction and Profile of a Musician --
Composers on Bernstein / Lukas Foss, David Diamond --
Writers/Critics on Bernstein / Harold Schonberg, Joan Peyser --
On the Record / Paul Myers --
Bernstein Proteges / John Mauceri, Justin Brown --
From the Theatre / Jonathan Miller --
Great Performers on Bernstein / Jerry Hadley, Mstislav Rostropovich, Christa Ludwig, Frederica Von Stade --
Orchestras / Members of the New York, Vienna, and Israel Philharmonics --
Bernstein on Broadway / Carol Lawrence on West Side Story --
Index.
Responsibility: edited and with an introduction by William Westbrook Burton.
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Abstract:

In Conversations About Bernstein, friends, critics, and collaborators, as well as the world-class musicians who shared the stage with Bernstein, remember the private artist behind the public flamboyance and acclaim. In an unprecedented series of interviews with author William Westbrook Burton, they reveal how Bernstein worked, the perennial conflicts in his personal and professional lives, and why he made the choices he did. -Book jacket.

Some of Bernstein's most well known compositions include : Candide ; A Quiet Place ; On the Town ; and West Side Story.

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