Renowned composer ("West Side Story", "Candide", "On The Town"), conductor, arranger, pianist, educator, author, TV/radio host, educated at the Boston Latin School and Harvard University (BA) with Walter Piston. Edward Burlingame Hill and A. Tillman Merritt. He studied piano with Helen Coates, Heinrich Gebhard and Isabelle Vengerova...See full bio »
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Leonard Bernstein's 'Candide'
(2005)
(music: "Overture", "Life Is Happiness Indeed", "The Best of All Possible Worlds", "Oh, Happy We", "It Must Be So" Candide's First Meditation, "Westphalia Chorale", "Dear Boy", "Auto da-fé", "This World" Candide's Lament, "Paris Waltz Scene", "Glitter and Be Gay", "You Were Dead, You Know", "I Am Easily Assimilated", "Quartet Finale", "Entr'acte", "My Love", "We are Women", "Alleluia", "Quiet", "Sheep's Song", "Ballad of Eldorado", "Bon Voyage", "What's the Use?", "You Were Dead, You Know" reprise, "Make Our Garden Grow" Finale / lyrics: "Auto da-fé", "I Am Easily Assimilated", "We are Women")
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The Poetry of Earth
(1976)
(performer: "Oedipus Rex" complete oratorio / "Oedipus Rex" complete oratorio)
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The Twentieth Century Crisis
(1976)
(performer: "Rhapsodie Espagnole fourth movement", "The Unanswered Question", "Violin Concerto" excerpt, "Symphony No. 9 in D Major Fourth Movement")
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The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity
(1976)
(performer: "Romeo Alone", "Festivities in Capulet's Palace", "Prelude and Liebestod", "Prelude a l'Apres Midi d'un Faune")
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Musical Semantics
(1976)
(performer: "Symphony No. 6 in F Major Pastoral")
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Musical Syntax
(1976)
(performer: "Symphony No. 40 in G minor" excerpts)
1976Bernstein in London
(TV documentary)
(music: "An American in Paris", "The Unanswered Question", "The Stars and Stripes Forever", "Rhapsody in Blue" / "A Lincoln Portrait")
1974That's Entertainment!
(documentary)
(music: "New York, New York" 1944 - uncredited)
1970Bernstein on Beethoven: A Celebration in Vienna
(TV special documentary)
(music: "Piano Concerto No. 1" excerpt / performer: "Fidelio" excerpts, "Symphony No. 9 in d Minor: Ode to Joy")
1970Liza
(TV movie)
(writer: "New York, New York")
1965La señora
(short)
("West Side Story" fragments)
1964Young People's Concerts: What Is Sonata Form?
(TV movie)
(performer: "Micaela's Air", "And I Love Her" partial, "Symphony No. 41 Jupiter" First Movement, "Symphony No. 1 Classical" First Movement)
1962Young People's Concerts: What Is a Melody?
(TV movie)
(performer: "Symphony No. 40 in G Minor 1st movement", "Wedding March" excerpt, "Symphony No. 6 Pathetique: First Movement" excerpt, "Concert Music for Strings and Brass", "Symphony No. 4: Finale", "Tristan und Isolde: Prelude")
1962Young People's Concerts: The Sound of a Hall
(TV movie)
(performer: "Roman Carnival Overture", "Catacoustical Measures", "Du Bist Die Ruh", "Concerto for Four Violins and Orchestra' first movement, "Tango Pasodoble from 'Facade' ", "1812 Overture" / "Tango Pasodoble from 'Facade' ")
1959The Infinite Variety of Music
(TV movie)
(performer: "Daphnis and Chloe: Suite No. 2" opening, "Death and Transfiguration" finale, "Symphony No. 5 Fourth Movement", final trio from "Der Rosenkavalier")
1958Wonderful Town
(TV movie)
(music: "Christopher Street", "Ohio", "One Hundred Easy Ways", "What a Waste", "A Little Bit in Love", "Conversation Piece", "A Quiet Girl", "Conga!", "My Darlin' Eileen", "Swing!", "It's Love", "Ballet at the Village Vortex" Instrumental, "Wrong Note Rag", "Finale: It's Love reprise")
1958Young People's Concerts: What Does Music Mean
(TV movie)
(performer: "Don Quixote" excerpt, "William Tell Overture" excerpt, "Pictures at an Exhibition" excerpts, "Blue Danube Waltz" excerpt, "Tales from the Vienna Woods" excerpt, "Symphony No. 4" excerpt, "La Valse", "Waldstein Sonata' excerpt, "Theme from 'Dragnet'")
1954Rear Window
(music: "Excerpt from 'Fancy Free'" 1944 - uncredited)
1949On the Town
(music: "I Feel Like I'm Not out of Bed Yet" - uncredited, "New York, New York" - uncredited, "Miss Turnstiles" - uncredited, "Come Up to My Place" - uncredited, "A Day in New York" - uncredited)
1949On the Town
(based upon the musical play with music by, based upon the musical play: lyrics by, composer: "A Day In New York" Ballet / "Come Up To My Place" / "Miss Turnstiles" Dance / "New York, New York")
I don't want to spend the rest of my life doing as Toscanini did, studying and restudying 50 pieces of music. It would bore me to death. I want to conduct, play the piano, compose.
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