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West Side story
by Robert Wise
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245 editions published between 1961 and 2013 in 8 languages and held by 6,089 WorldCat member libraries worldwide This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young woman who is sister to the Sharks leader has her first taste of love with the former head of the Jets
West Side story original Broadway cast recording
by Leonard Bernstein
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468 editions published between 1957 and 2012 in 11 languages and held by 5,915 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Hayley Westenra and Vittorio Grigolo sing songs from the musical "West Side Story," including "Jet Songs," "America," "A Boy Like That," and more
The joy of music
by Leonard Bernstein
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59 editions published between 1959 and 2004 in 4 languages and held by 3,365 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Illustrated talks on music appreciation, based on the author's "Omnibus" television shows. Includes expanded scripts of seven of the shows
On the waterfront
by Elia Kazan
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74 editions published between 1954 and 2013 in 8 languages and held by 3,308 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Terry Malloy is a washed-up ex-prize fighter corrupted along with brother Charley at an early age by a ruthless Mob-connected union boss named Johnny Friendly, who runs the waterfront. Malloy is now an errand-boy for the union, while Charley (in return for a college education) is now a lawyer for them. Malloy assists in the killing of a longshoreman who was talking to the crime commission investigating the union. He soon meets the dead man's agonized sister, Edie Doyle, and has a change of mind. Activist priest Father Barry argues with Malloy about morality, responsibility, and doing the right thing. Malloy's guilt, his romantic feelings for Edie, and an assault on Father Barry overwhelm him and he turns informer. Malloy's defiant testimony before the commission leads to a climactic bloody battle that wrests the union from the boss' tenacious grasp
The infinite variety of music
by Leonard Bernstein
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26 editions published between 1966 and 2008 in English and German and held by 2,069 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "A companion volume to 'The Joy of Music.' It includes the scripts of his TV programs on Mozart, Romanticism, Jazz in Serious Music, etc., plus an explanation of four great symphonies by Beethoven, Tschaikovsky, Brahms, and Dvorak." Bk Buyer's Guide
West side story : a new musical : based on a conception of Jerome Robbins
by Leonard Bernstein
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155 editions published between 1957 and 2012 in 5 languages and held by 1,866 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Vocal selections from "West Side Story"; based upon the stage play produced by Robert E. Griffith and Harold S. Prince
Candide
by Leonard Bernstein
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97 editions published between 1963 and 2012 in 7 languages and held by 1,700 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Candide: Musical Comedy in Two Acts. Book: Lillian Hellman and Richard Wilbur
On the town
by Leonard Bernstein
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51 editions published between 1949 and 2010 in 6 languages and held by 1,676 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Three sailors have a 24-hour shore leave to enjoy New York. They are especially concerned with the female inhabitants of the city, and each finds his own to cuddle up with. Chip tries but can't resist the advances of a cab driver, Ozzie gladly fills the role of a lovely anthropologist's "prehistoric man," and Gabey finds the model who poses for the Miss Turnstiles advertisements, who isn't quite the glamorous celebrity he envisioned
West Side story : a musical
by Leonard Bernstein
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131 editions published between 1956 and 2011 in 6 languages and held by 1,661 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The feud between two New York teenage gangs abruptly ends the brief happiness shared by Maria, a Puerto Rican girl, and Tony, a member of the Jets. In his attempt to defend a fellow Jet, Tony kills Maria's brother and shortly thereafter is killed by Maria's rejected fiancé
Rhapsody in blue ; An American in Paris ; Piano concerto in F
by George Gershwin
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103 editions published between 1959 and 2011 in 5 languages and held by 1,346 WorldCat member libraries worldwide This selection is a DSD (Direct Stream Digital) recording
On the town
by Leonard Bernstein
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78 editions published between 1945 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 1,294 WorldCat member libraries worldwide On the Town: Musical Comedy in Two Acts. Book: Betty Comden and Adolph Green
The unanswered question : six talks at Harvard
by Leonard Bernstein
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8 editions published between 1976 and 2002 in English and held by 1,204 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The varied forms of Leonard Bernstein's musical creativity have been recognized and enjoyed by millions. These lectures, Mr. Bernstein's most recent venture in musical explication, will make fascinating reading as well. Virgil Thomson says of the lectures: "Nobody anywhere presents this material so warmly, so sincerely, so skillfully. As musical mind-openers they are first class; as pedagogy they are matchless." Mr. Bernstein considers music ranging from Hindu ragas through Mozart and Ravel, to Copland, suggesting a worldwide, innate musical grammar. Folk music, pop songs, symphonies, modal, tonal, atonal, well-tempered and ill-tempered works all find a place in these discussions. Each, Mr. Bernstein suggests, has roots in a universal language central to all artistic creation. Using certain linguistic analogies, he explores the ways in which this language developed and can be understood as an aesthetic surface. Drawing on his insights as a master composer and conductor, Mr. Bernstein also explores what music means below the surface: the symbols and metaphors which exist in every musical piece, of whatever sort. And, finally, Mr. Bernstein analyzes twentieth century crises in the music of Schoenberg and Stravinsky, finding even here a transformation of all that has gone before, as part of the poetry of expression, through its roots in the earth of human experience. These talks, written and delivered when Leonard Bernstein was Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University, are the newest of the author's literary achievements. In addition to a distinguished career as conductor, pianist, and composer, Mr. Bernstein is the recipient of many television Emmys for the scripts of his Young People's Concerts, Omnibus programs, and others, and is the author of The Infinite Variety of Music and The Joy of Music, for which he received the Christopher Award [Publisher description]
Wonderful town
by Leonard Bernstein
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71 editions published between 1953 and 2012 in 5 languages and held by 1,201 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Chichester Psalms : (in three movements) for mixed choir, boy solo, strings, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, 2 harps, and percussion (to be sung in Hebrew)
by Leonard Bernstein
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113 editions published between 1965 and 2008 in 5 languages and held by 1,177 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Leonard Bernstein's Young people's concerts : with the New York Philharmonic
by Leonard Bernstein
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23 editions published between 1992 and 2010 in English and held by 1,154 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Leonard Bernstein earned glory as a composer, conductor, and pianist (classical and jazz), but nothing gave him more pleasure than the joy of teaching. He presented the unique blend of spoken words and music. He is an intensely interactive teacher, getting his audience to sing, springing a quiz full of trick questions. He can take the most abstruse subject and present them to a young audience with clarity, without condescension, and with a clear sense of the material's value. His subject-matter is enormously varied
Mass [a theatre piece for singers, players, and dancers
by Leonard Bernstein
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34 editions published between 1971 and 1997 in 6 languages and held by 1,072 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Trouble in Tahiti : an opera in seven scenes
by Leonard Bernstein
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41 editions published between 1953 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 1,007 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Candide
by Leonard Bernstein
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36 editions published between 1955 and 1987 in 3 languages and held by 987 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Young people's concerts
by Leonard Bernstein
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13 editions published between 1962 and 1971 in English and held by 920 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Discusses various aspects of music such as: What is melody? What does music mean? What is classical music? The text is based on Bernstein's television series of young people's concerts
Symphonie no. 9
by Gustav Mahler
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36 editions published between 1967 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 829 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The Dresden Staatskapelle has a very special tradition of performing Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. It performed the then still highly controversial work for the first time in August 1838 under the baton of Johann Gottlieb Reissiger. Since 1900, the piece has been performed yearly on Palm Sunday, having been popularized by Richard Wagner in 1843 more
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Alternative Names
Amber, Lenny.
Amber, Lenny, 1918-1990
Bernstain, Leonard
Bernstaĭn, Leonard, 1918-1990
Bernstajn, Leonard.
Bernstajn, Leonard 1918-1990
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Bernstein, L. (Leornard), 1918-1990
Bernstein, Lenny, 1918-1990
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Bernstein, Leonard Louis 1918-1990
Bernstein, Leonardo 1918-1990
Bernstein, Leonhard 1918-1990
Bernsteins, Lenards, 1918-1990
Bernstine, Leonard
Leon Bernstein 1918-1990)
Leonard Berstein
Leonhard Bernstein
Original West Side Story Cast
West Side Story
Бернстайн, Леонард, 1918-1990
בירנשטין, לאונרד, 1918-1990
בערנשטיין, לאונרד, 1918-1990
בערענשטיין, לאונרד, 1918-1990
ברנסטין, לאונרד, 1918-1990
ברנשטיין, לאונרד, 1918-1990
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