PRELUDE, FUGUE News for Friends of Leonard Bernstein RIFFS Spring/Summer 2002
YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERTS Return to TV
by Martin Steinberg
Reprinted with permission of The Associated Press.
EW YORK (AP) - The images are in black and white and from another Nera, mothers in fancy hats accompanying their sons in suits and ties and daughters in dresses and patent-leather shoes as they rush into Carnegie Hall to watch a nearly all-male orchestra yet the ideas ... are as meaningful today as during Eisenhower's America in 1958. Forty-four years after Leonard Bernstein's YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERTS first aired, they are returning to television. [Ed. Note, began on March 15] ... USA Cable-affiliated Trio, which has 14.3 million subscribers, bills itself as a popular arts channel. Its programs include "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In," movies, fash ion and concerts from Bjork to the Doors. With these performances featuring Bernstein and the [New York] Philharmonic, the station is venturing into the difficult sell of classical music. "When we went back and looked at them, we found them to be riveting, exciting, somehow fresh, new and relevant to what is happening today," Chris Slava said. [Trio's vice president of acquisitions and scheduling] To help, Trio enlisted three stars - entertainers Whoopi Goldberg and John Lithgow and violinist (continued on page 2)
In this issue ... LB Discography: New on the Web ... page 6 YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERTS Return to TV, continued To Our
Readers (continued from page 1) sort of put clothes on them so Joshua Bell. They introduce the that they could go out into topic of the day, such as "What is the world. After all, notes can't Orchestration?" "What is a wander around naked; they have Concerto?" and "Musical Atoms: to be dressed up, in orchestration. t was Leonard Bernstein's least A Study of Intervals." The real But good orchestration means not Iglamorous occupation, that of star, of course is Bernstein ... only clothes that you put music teacher, that may leave the Besides his conducting, composing into - the way you wear a dress strongest mark of his influence in and piano-playing skills, Bernstein or a suit to keep yourself warm. the world of music and ideas. In was a great communicator and It's got to be the right orchestra this issue, we hear from educators teacher. He didn't talk down to tion for that particular piece of inspired by Bernstein's teaching his young audience while explain music, like wearing the right suit methods, as well as by the ability ing formidable concepts that can or the right dress. That orches of his compositions to galvanize turn the mystique of classical tration would be like putting on a young listeners. The Leonard music into an impenetrable barrier. sweater to go swimming. It's just Bernstein Center is steadily ridiculous." expanding, creating a nationwide He didn't talk down to After having the orchestra play dissemination of Bernsteins's lively a jumbled orchestration, Bernstein approach to learning. Scholarships his young audience while asks: "You see how terrible that established by Bernstein in his is? You can't hear the tunes, the lifetime continue to boost talented explaining formidable rhythms are too loud and it all young musicians forward in concepts that can turn the sounds clumsy and thick." The their studies. lesson: "A good composer always In addition, Bernstein's mystique of classical music knows deep down in his heart YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERTS what the right choice must be, with the New York Philharmonic into an impenetrable barrier. because if he's good, his music are back on television, illuminat will make him choose right. The ing a darkness that had not been "I don't know anybody who can right music played by the right relit for many years. And the do that with music and ... make it instruments in the right combina jewel in Bernstein's educational so accessible and fun, as though tions at the right time - that is crown, his NORTON LECTURES you already knew it almost good orchestration." Bell said the at Harvard, are now available on before he said it," said Alexander series may not be right for every DVD. They never looked better. Bernstein, a former teacher ... body, but it may expose many to Meanwhile, academic research For example, in introducing classical music because Bernstein on Bernstein's musical and "or-ches-TRA-tion," Bernstein shows that music is something not recording legacy has reached new demonstrates how the 19th to be afraid of. "I think it will levels of precision, thanks to the century Russian composer Nikolai touch them," he said. "Just being combined forces of human dedica Rimsky-Korsakov arranged around somebody that just oozes tion and computer wizardry. "Capriccio Espagnol." Bernstein music - it's a kind of energy, and And anyone who wonders if adds layer upon layer of ideas through osmosis you get excited ... Leonard Bernstein's works are one at a time: "What (Rimsky Hopefully the bigger results will getting enough exposure need only Korsakov) did actually is to take be just wanting to go out and turn to the Calendar of Events, the bare notes in his head and hear music and go play rn usic." • which threatens to devour the front of this newsletter. J.B.T. •
0 WEST SIDE STORY: A Teaching Diary
by Ann Mayle
have been teaching WEST SIDE ISTORY m seventh grade music classes for most of my 17 year teaching career. For the past several years, I have been showing the film to the students of Suncrest Middle School in Morgantown, West Virginia. I don't remember the exact day that I decided to start, but I remember the circum stances as if it were yesterday. I had just landed my first job teaching junior high school music, all set for my first class. I had the piano out, the music was ready and I was eager to proceed. I passed out the music and pro ceeded to teach them to sing a pop song from the time. A hand raised in the back of the room. "Yes?" "Um ... Mrs. Mayle, if we wanted to sing, we would be in choir." (Said with the innocence On to WEST SIDE STORY. I snapping. That always happens. Ann Mayle with and sarcasm of a seventh grader.) tell them, "You will see the gangs They're hooked! This led to a discussion about dancing. Remember folks, this is Day two: A quick review of her students. how they do NOT like to sing a MUSICAL! That's what they what we saw yesterday, then I and I couldn't make them, etc. do. The music is an important turn on the VCR. The dance Not a good beginning. I needed part of the plot, so I expect you to starts. They laugh at Gladhand. Plan B. So I went home and listen carefully to each song and They watch as Tony and Maria devised a unit on Musical Theater, know its meaning and who sings first see each other. The girls are complete with notes, tests, quizzes it. Take notes as you go along. drawn to the TV. A couple of the and games. We would complete There will be work to do after the boys are looking at each other the unit by watching WEST SIDE video is over. Let's start. And and rolling their eyes. They listen STORY and discussing it. That no, you may not have popcorn." to Maria. They always complain was the beginning of what I later Day one: I talk them through that he says Maria way too many became known for. Many of my the first few minutes of the video times! (A boy one year actually former students may forget my as they see the aerial view of New counted them. I think he said name, but they remember me as York City. They like this view. that there were 37.) We stop the "The WEST SIDE STORY lady. " "Cool," I hear someone say tape at the very end of Tonight. Before I begin showing the film, (how appropriate). I name the Once again we discuss what they we discuss musicals in general. Jets as they pop onto the screen. saw. "Was that fire escape Actors "sing" in musicals (groans Someone asks if they are ever supposed to be like the balcony from the class.) They may going to talk. I assure them that in Romeo and Juliet?" someone "dance" in the streets (more after the opening scenes, the asks. "Exactly!" "Will we get ,, iil mumbling and giggling). We list action picks up. After about to see the rumble tomorrow?" c C. musicals the students have seen. forty minutes, I turn off the video "You'll have to wait and see," !"..., C: While a couple of students have at the place where Maria starts I tell them.
by Paul R. Laird described by many. My continuing important biographical issues, obsession with his life and music Bernstein's relationship with other y fascination with the life ultimately led to the publication of luminaries, and his compositions, Mand music of Leonard my Leonard Bernstein: A Guide both in terms of Bernstein's Bernstein began in college. I had to Research, which appeared in general musical style and in l ;I:-~been fortunate enough to see him early 2002 in the Routledge specific genres. Sources on I ' conduct a Bicentiennial concert Music Bibliographies series. Bernstein's conducting and work } r with the New York Philharmonic Guides to research inevitably as an educator and commentator .Le. ,a;,( ~rnste ~3i.{J:)t L:a!, ,d at Carnegie Hall in 1976, and I are out-of-date the moment they also appear, along with a selected discovered his compositions a few appear, but I hope the book offers list of videos and detailed annota years later when I bought the a good annotated bibliography on tions of research aids such as two-record set (Columbia important Bernstein sources archives, libraries and web sites. Masterworks MG 32793) of his through the fall of 2000, when it The 50 pages of indices help one three symphonies. Soon thereafter, went to press. The book opens to use the book efficiently. I became enthralled with the score with essays on Bernstein's life and Leonard Bernstein: A Guide to WEST SIDE STORY, which I some of the more complete state to Research does not by itself had known for years, but I finally ments on his musical style avail offer a complete look at Leonard understood what a masterful able outside of dissertations and Bernstein as a man, composer, American score it is. I wrote my theses. My annotated listing of conductor, or author. I hope, master's thesis in music history at Bernstein's major compositions however, that it will make it easier Ohio State University in 1982 on builds upon the solid work of to find that full picture among the influence of Aaron Copland on Jack Gottlieb in this area. While the many sources about him in Leonard Bernstein. After writing the most complete catalog of different types of publications. It Mr. Bernstein about my project, Bernstein's writings remains Mark will take scholars years to illumi he invited me to come to the Eden Horowitz's list on the nate fully the life and work of Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC Library of Congress's American this complex and fascinating to interview him after a rehearsal Memory web site (http://memory. man, but I like to think that my with the National Symphony loc.gov/ammem/lbhtml/lbhome. book and other sources will give Orchestra. Beyond the thrill of html); my book offers annotations researchers and other interested hearing him reminisce about his for Bernstein's major writings. people a head start. friendship and work with Copland, The largest section of the book is I experienced his intensity of an annotated listing of approxi Paul R. Laird is the Director of interest in everyone, a feeling mately 500 sources on biography, the Music History Division at the University of Kansas •
Indiana University Leonard upDATE : Bernstein Scholarships
n 1987, Leonard Bernstein awarded three Leonard Bernstein Ireceived the Siemens Prize, a Scholarships to enable students to generous financial award estab continue their education. The lished by the Ernst von Siemens scholarships were awarded to .,, ii! Foundation. He added the Meng-Lu Chiu, who is working t: a. proceeds of the prize to his towards a Performer Diploma in !"..,, already established scholarship harp; Kornel Wolak, who is C: Ill C: funds at Harvard and Brandeis working towards a Performer Ill I<" Universities as well as at Diploma in clarinet; and Nathan a:::a Tanglewood. He also used a Hillyard, a graduate performance V, major portion to establish a new major in trombone. In thanking "Q s· scholarship fund at Indiana the Bernstein family Nathan said, '§, C: University (IU) School of Music. "Next semester looks full of 3 3 For this academic year (2001- opportunity. It is a privilege to ~ N 2002) the IU School of Music receive this assistance." • 0 0 N e The Leonard Bernstein Center
for the evaluation of the program Learning Teacher's Handbook, for which she serves as principal Level One and Two; Leonard investigator. Early data show Bernstein Center Artful Learning positive results among students Principals Leadership Institute, and teachers. The full evaluation Level One and Two. Three new he Leonard Bernstein Center for report will be available in resource materials are also avail TLearning (LBC) has been September after schools receive able: The JAZZ Story: Lessons expanding its reach across the and compile their 2002 student for Middle School Students (April country through the addition of performance data. 2002), Masterworks (June 2002) new participating schools, new In the past year, over 800 and Artful Learning Units of training materials and new teachers and other staff received Study (June 2002). resource materials. In the past more than 160 days of profes Dana Magenau, the Center's year it has grown from six partici sional development in the Artful new executive director, recently pating schools to twenty-three. Learning model including on-site said: "I've returned from overseas In February, the first Leonard follow-up sessions. A cadre of 20 specifically to work in education. Bernstein Center Leadership trainers who are skilled in arts I consider myself very fortunate Institute was held at the Recording based instructional strategies to be a part of the Leonard Academy in Santa Monica, CA. delivered the sessions. Additionally Bernstein Center for Learning. Seventeen principals and staff the educators received assistance LBC has built a solid foundation members of the participating in developing their school with 23 schools, and is now schools attended. Dr. Eva Baker, improvement plans and completing entering a new phase of expan director of the National Center applications for funding, as well as sion. We will attain the critical for Research on Evaluation, addressing implementation issues. mass needed to reach more chil Standards and Student Testing at The Center has also developed dren and raise the profile of the the University of California, Los four new training manuals: LBC program." • Angeles, gave preliminary results Leonard Bernstein Center Artful
Following in the Footsteps, or a Least Trying to Walk a Nearby Road
by Chris Ludwa spontaneity and a willingness to The Grammy Foundation does an react to what is occurring; and incredible job of guiding the n June 2001 I was hired by the most importantly, both require teachers through training sessions, I Grammy Foundation's Leonard the ability to realize that only follow-up visits, information shar Bernstein Center for Learning to through the expertise and artistry ing, and providing the resources be a Trainer in schools that are of each individual can the best for success. I am honored to adopting the Bernstein Artful result be achieved. remain connected to Bernstein's Learning model. As a conductor, The teachers with whom we legacy of instilling the love of I have always been intrigued by work are already incredible artists, learning in audiences of all ages, Bernstein's work; I wish I were teachers, and scholars. The races, creeds, and backgrounds. ten years older so I could have Bernstein Model simply provides a met him. Learning his role as framework that sparks enthusiasm, Chris Ludwa is a freelance "D artist, teacher, and scholar and creativity, and joy in the teachers. conductor residing in iil i: a. spreading his belief to other That same spark enlivens the Indianapolis, IN. He works with ,!D "Tl teachers has had to be the next students, who ultimately learn the Columbus Indiana C IC C best thing. The inexorable joy more and have more fun doing Philharmonic, Indianapolis CD Opera, and Terre Haute Youth 110 and feeling of accomplishment it than through conventional :,0 that comes from helping teachers methods. We see that when Orchestra and was recently a: embrace the Bernstein model is students care about what they are named Artistic Director of the Vl ~s · quite similar to standing in front learning and "own" the educa Indianapolis Arts Chorale. '3, C of an orchestra: both require tional process, they retain more 3 3 advance preparation and an information, make cross-curricular For information on the Artful ~ N understanding of the fundamen connections, and ultimately begin Learning model, contact Carol 0 0 tals; both require a degree of to know the love of learning. Solis at (310) 392-3777. • N 0 The Leonard Bernstein Discography: New on the Web Breaking the Octennial Cycle
Birthday, added a Videography to the Discography. But again these were only inventories of Bernstein as composer since, as I noted at the time, "Bernstein as conductor during this time period has been prodigal in the field of recordings; it will be necessary to compile a separate DiscographyNideography (to be released ... )." One day, after this edition had appeared, the phone rang at home just as I was walking in exhausted from an overseas trip. It was David Diamond fuming in his notorious "diamond-in-the-rough" mode over my having omitted the fact that the very first commercial recording Bernstein ever made was as a pianist in the Diamond Prelude & Fugue in C# Major (1940, New Music Recordings). Yes, it was the first, and we should note that, although more projects were in the works, fate sadly Bernstein and by Jack Gottlieb become his Editor, shepherding decreed Bernstein's last recording his scores and books through to to be "The Final Concert" at his Assistant eonard Bernstein believed in the publication, and writing program Tanglewood on 19 August 1990. Conductor Lefficacy of calendar dates. In and record notes for most of his A third edition of the Red Book 1943, he made his historic debut concert works. in 1998, celebrating what would Seiji Ozawa, with the New York Philharmonic Among the publications were have been the 80th Birthday Year, on the 14th of November, a date three editions of so-called was subtitled Volume I: Life, Producer in 1954 on which he made his Complete Catalogs (nicknamed Musical Compositions & Writings John McClure, equally historic television debut. the Red Books - red was LB's because, to self-quote again, It also was the birth date of his favorite color) spaced at ten year "The Bernstein Discography and and soloists compeer and mentor, Aaron intervals. The first of these in Videography has become so Copland. Bernstein would have 1978, celebrating his 60th immense that it requires a separate recording Bach's also appreciated the significance of Birthday, had a Discography of volume. We hope that Volume 2 St. Matthew his having been born in the eighth Bernstein as composer. Due will be ready for release in the year (known as the octennial) of acknowledgment was given to the year 2000 ... ". Well, here is Passion the 1910s, for it was in 1958, Rev. J. F. Weber, a Catholic priest Volume 2, two years late:, not so shortly after his 40th birthday, and expert on liturgical music, far off the mark. As Lillian April, 1962. that he formally became Music who had published a sixteen page Hellman put it - in the mouth of Director of the New York Bernstein discography in 1975 her eponymous hero from the Philharmonic. For me, 1958 had (Utica, N.Y.). During this decade, Bernstein-Hellman operetta CAN particular resonance since that -,:, a more thorough tabulation was DIDE - "We promise only to do ;;J i: was when the Maestro invited me compiled by Byron Bray, a our best and live out our lives. Q. !" to join him as his Assistant. Columbia Artists Management Dear God, that's all we can "Tl C: My Assistantship ended in representative and close friend of IO promise in truth," (a passage by C: II) 1968, Bernstein's 50th birthday Bernstein's secretary, Helen Coates. J10 the way, that has made it into ::,, year, but I continued to work for However, it was Miss Coates, in the 15th edition of Bartlett's :ii him occasionally as a free-lancer, those pre-computer days, who V>"' Familiar Quotations.) "O 5· and then rejoined his full employ from the beginning had labori At last we have broken the '§; through Amberson, his company, ously typed in all such data into C octennial cycle, and I am thankful 3 in 1977. Gradually the music loose-leaf notebooks. 3 we do not have to wait for the ~ quotient of my work took ascen The second edition of the Red N year 2008 to present this 0 0 dancy as I was empowered to Book in 1988, observing the 70th N Discography to the public, all 0 124 pages of it! The number of clarinetist David Oppenheim, who There are sti ll two important Bernstein recordings is, to say the five years earlier had recorded matters to address. First, we least, impressive. The only other Bernstein's SONATA FOR CLAR have yet to supply full details on conductors who have come close INET and Piano with the com Bernstein as Narrator. This is a are Herbert von Karajan and poser; and celesta player Howard temporary omission, entailing Neville Marriner. Although there Shanet, who later wrote a notable such items as the Book-Of-the are gaps (discussed below), the history of the Philharmonic. Month Club series, recorded on total count is 826. Copland's Billy the Kid (11 June Decca. These symphonic analyses, Kudos for our breakthrough 1949) is stamped: "Also made on are due first and foremost to 7 [inch] 45 RPM. " James H. North, who generously Bernstein's own JEREMIAH 'In the Beginning' there was allowed us to extract the Bernstein SYMPHONY was recorded 14 Columbia records which begat quotient from his index of all New February 1945 with the St. Louis York Philharmonic recordings, Symphony Orchestra, and CBS Records, then Sony and an extraordinary achievement. according to the time sheet, the Grateful acknowledgment also session took place in the now Sony Classical. goes to Florian Conzetti, who did Municipal Auditorium. However, the lion's share of computer input this 1932 building was renamed made with the Stadium Concerts under the watchful eyes of in the 1940s as the Kiel Opera Symphony Orchestra {the New Amberson Vice Presidents Marie House (after a St. Louis mayor) York Philharmonic in disguise) Carter and Craig Urquhart and and is so noted herein. Nowadays feature Tchaikovsky Pathetique, our Executive Vice President, the auditorium is known as the Schuinann No. 2, Dvorak New Harry J. Kraut. Savvis Center. This is an example World, Brahms No. 4 and Catalogs from record compa of the persnickety kind of detail Beethoven Eroica. Other nies were reviewed, riffled and and sleuthing that one has had narrations include titles from raided - notably, the Phonolog to undertake. the Omnibus series such as monthly listing used by record Not only do performing arenas "Beethoven's Fifth Symphony" stores and the indispensable change names, but so do record and "What Is Jazz?" (CL-919) Schwarm Catalog. It is particularly companies. "In the Beginning" and "The Humors of Music" fascinating to examine original there was Columbia records which (MS-6225). To all this we add time-sheets from the 1940s for begat CBS Records, then Sony "Bach's St. Matthew Passion" the earliest Bernstein sessions on and now Sony Classical. But and "The Music of Charles Ives," 78 rpm for the RCA-Victor label. whatever the name, the largest issued with discussions of Blitzstein's Airborne Symphony, bulk of Bernstein recordings were Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 3 recorded 30 October 1946 at the created for the company between and 5 on CBS Special Service Lotos Club in New York City, the 1950s and '70s, numbering Records. And there are still took only three hours to complete; over 500 compositions. others: Stravinsky's Petrouchka but Stravinsky's Octet, recorded Dan Shiffman, our resident and the Berlioz Symphonie 11 August 1947 at Tanglewood, computer guru, has faithfully Fantastique, the Nielsen took almost five. On the log for overseen the relocation of the Espansiva Symphony as well as Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat data to cyber space. Indeed, the an interview with Bernstein about there is a note: "The noises flexibility of the cyber world is his own recording output. heard on all sides are not system the ideal environment for a The second matter is more noises, but mechanism noises Discography, making it possible tricky since it concerns Bernstein from bassoons which could not to keep pace with the rapidly as Composer: works conducted be eliminated." changing formats and labeling by others. What we have done is .,, io Salaries for the recording of numbers endemic to recordings. to add a section called Selected C: C. Gershwin's An American in Paris Since record companies are Discography which was finished !D.,, C (6 December 1947, the Manhattan always exploring ways to exploit in 1998 with the help of Maria IC Bedo for the third edition of the C.. Center) totaled $3,949.75; the their holdings, many of the titles 11" lowest amount paid an individual with Bernstein as conductor have Red Book. But it was never used :,, in that publication in anticipation a: was $68.75. Among the musicians been repackaged in differing and V\ that day were oboist Ralph dizzying combinations, most of what we thought was going to ~s · be Volume II. Please note that '3, Gomberg, brother of Harold recently remastered and marketed C this section is not all-inclusive nor 3 Gomberg (famed oboist of the by Sony Classical as The Bernstein 3 is it up-to-date. Therefore, such ,:g New York Philharmonic); Century. This becomes a convo N 0 (continued on page 15) 0 luted ordeal for indexers. N 0 1 • • TROUBfJ ta 1t1
Milestone: 50 Years of TROUBLE IN TAHITI
June 12, 1952 at Brandeis TAHITI was later incorporated University, with the composer into Bernstein's final opera, A conducting. TROUBLE IN QUIET PLACE. • TAHITI depicts a day in the failing marriage of a model sub Tunglew@d urban couple, Sam and Dinah. Since its premiere TROUBLE he Tanglewood Music Center IN TAHITI has become one of Twill celebrate the 50th the most performed American Anniversary of TROUBLE IN one-act operas. It has appeared TAHITI with a concert perform in opera houses, on Broadway ance on August 12. The concert and television. Most recently, the will feature the Vocal Fellows of BBC aired a new television version the Tanglewood Music Center, directed by Tom Cairns. The BBC the TMC Orchestra, and Federico Music Magazine said about this Cortese, conductor. production that, "Cairns' film is TROUBLE IN TAHITI, an stuffed with witty invention ... it opera in one act with seven scenes, had me thinking for days after written by Bernstein to his own wards about the couple's final libretto, was first performed on uneasy truce." TROUBLE IN
TROUBLE IN TAHITI: New Chamber Version
LEONARD Trumpet, Trombone, Piano, Percussion (2 players) and BERNSTEIN Contrabass. Premiered in 1997, Music Publishing it has had many subsequent Company LLC performances, most prominently by Chicago Opera Theatre in ,, 1999 and by the Festival des Arts ;;; new chamber orchestration i: on a tour of France in 2000. • c.. A of TROUBLE IN TAHITI is !." "Tl C: now available from the Leonard he world's largest music print Music Publishing Group (which work on several new publications, Tpublisher, Hal Leonard jointly owns and operates LBMPC particularly in areas such as Corporation has signed an agree along with Amberson). Under educational piano, instrumental ment with London-based music the terms of the agreement, and choral, and vocal." group Boosey & Hawkes and the Boosey & Hawkes retains selling Kraut, on behalf of LBMPC Leonard Bernstein Music rights for these publications in and Amberson, further comments, Publishing Company (LBMPC) for Europe (including the countries "We are delighted that by working exclusive worldwide print rights to of the former Soviet Union) and with Hal Leonard and Boosey & the theatrical and popular works Israel, and will continue to sell Hawkes in this innovative of Leonard Bernstein. publications of Bernstein's serious arrangement, we will maximize The deal was negotiated by works and concert music, as the distribution of printed editions Hal Leonard Chairman and CEO well as administer rental of of Leonard Bernstein's music Keith Mardak and President performance materials for all around the world. So, play and Larry Morton; Jim Kendrick and works, worldwide. sing on!" • Stephen Richards of Boosey & The Bernstein catalog of Hawkes; Harry Kraut along with popular works currently consists For more information or to Marie Carter of Amberson (the of nearly 70 publications. place an order for Bernstein managing agent for Bernstein's Comments Morton, "We relish publications available from Hal estate); David Renzer, Worldwide the opportunity to represent in Leonard Corporation, please call President of Universal Music print such timeless, legendary the E-Z Order Line at 1-800- Publishing Group; and Linda music as Leonard Bernstein has 554-0626 or send a message to Newmark, Senior Vice President left us with. Our editorial [email protected]. of Acquisitions for Universal department has already begun Leonard Bernstein Persona to be Represented by the Roger Richman Agency mberson Incorporated, agency, specializing in protecting {photo, illustration, animation A which oversees the legacy of and promoting the personas of and/or look-alike). Leonard Bernstein, has entered world-renowned entertainment Jamie Bernstein Thomas said, into an agreement with The and historical personalities. "We are very pleased to have Roger Richman Agency, Inc. to Located in Beverly Hills, CA., Roger Richman representing our be the exclusive worldwide agent the agency has operated for 23 interests in this specialized field. in certain registered Leonard years and is headed by Roger Not only do we look forward to Bernstein trademarks. The trade Richman, who pioneered celebri reaching a wider audience through marks include the name, ty rights legislation. The Roger his efforts, but we are also signature, image and likeness of Richman Agency, Inc., specializes reassured to have such a strong Leonard Bernstein. in representing entertainment protector of the trademark and and historical personalities for a its appropriate uses." ,, ;;; variety of licensing applications, Roger Richman is "honored to i: Roger Richman is including advertising, merchan represent and protect Maestro a. f.D.,., dising, premiums, promotions, Bernstein's persona by both pro C: honored to represent IC film and television programming, tecting his image from unautho ..C: l!O and protect Maestro theatrical productions and rized users as well as perpetuating ;Jl look-alike/sound-alike services. his memory among his devotees ~ V, Bernstein's persona. ~ Exclusive licenses are available with a selective advertising and 5 · in most product and service merchandising program." • ~ C: The Roger Richman Agency, categories. Licenses include full 3 3 Inc. is the preeminent licensing persona usage, consisting of ~ N 0 name, voice, signature and image 0 N e THEINfle World Beethoven, Bernstein Premiere and Brotherhood Recording he Cincinnati May Festival he English recording company Twill present its 129th season TOlympia Records has recently beginning May 17 in Cincinnati's released the world premiere historic Music Hall. Entitled recording of Bernstein's VARIA Beethoven, Bernstein and TIONS ON AN OCTATONIC Brotherhood, the festival, in the SCALE for recorder and cello. words of M usic Director James Featuring John Turner on recorder Conlon, will be "dedicated to the and the Camerata Ensemble, this profound power of music and disc, titled Thirteen Ways of artists to bring people together to Looking at a Blackbird, features a celebrate their common humanity." collection of music for recorder As well as featuring the music of and strings. Bernstein's VARIA Beethoven and works by promi TIONS were composed in 1989 nent Afro-American composers, for Helena Burton, the teenaged the festival will include music ~2 daughter of Bernstein's colleague j,uu,s~/WJ/t; of Leonard Bernstein: MISSA Mutit- Diru/Dr and future biographer, Humphrey BREVIS; Selections from MASS Burton. The work is based on and THE LARK; OLYMPIC the octatonic scale that Bernstein HYMN and SYMPHONY NO. SYMPHONY NO. 3: KADDISH had previously used in the ballet 3: KADDISH. The performance will be narrated by Jamie DYBBUK. The VARIATIONS of the OLYMPIC HYMN will be Bernstein Thomas. This will be were later orchestrated and the first performance with new the first time Jamie has narrated became the slow movement of the lyrics by Richard Wilbur. her father's symphony. • CONCERTO FOR ORCHESTRA: JUBLIEE GAMES. Gramophone magazine called John Turner "a brilliant soloist .. . this is an extremely enjoyable and highly Did you know? recommendable disc." • c«vMll'IIA.) Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Music for Recoraer a11a Stri119 Quartet eonard Bernstein's recordings were nomi Lnated for over 30 Grammy Awards. He received thirteen Grammys in his lifetime including Classical Album of the Year in 1964 for his SYMPHONY NO. 3: KADDISH and in 1967 for his recording of Mahler's WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS works by Leonara Benrstein, Robert Simpson, Richard Arnell, Mtityds Seiber, Davia Forshaw, Eighth Symphony. He was awarded the Oavia Ellis, Beth Wiseman E, Philip Wooa Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award in JOHN TURNER • CAMERATA ENSEMBLE 1985 and has been awarded six posthumous Grammy Awards. Leah, a New Ballet n November 19, 2001, Leah Opremiered at the Operetta Theatre (formerly known as the Bolshoi Second Stage) in Moscow. The ballet was a production of the Postmodern Theatre, lrada Akperova, General Director, with music by Leonard Bernstein and choreography by Alexei Ratmansky. The role of Leah was danced by Nina Ananiashvili and Channon was danced by Guiseppe Picone. Sets and costumes were designed by Mikhail Makharadze. Bernstein's score was originally written for the ballet DYBBUK, on which he collaborated with Jerome Robbins in 1974. The The premiere of storyline of the new ballet, as well as that of the Bernstein/ Robbins Leah should be ballet, is based on S. Ansky's play celebrated as a real DYBBUK, first published in 1916. The Russian paper Commer birth of theater... ceant wrote, "The premiere of Leah should be celebrated as a real birth of theater. .. Nina Ananiashvili succeeds in doing the almost impossible: uniting in one body two beings." • SITI Company Presents irector Anne Bogart's The of his passion is the music he DSITI Company recently encountered, played, conducted, presented her new theater work, wrote and loved. Score is a Score, at the Wexner Center in study of ecstasy, articulation and Columbus, OH and at the genius which lives in the glorious Humana Festival of New atmosphere of great music and American Plays in Louisville, honors one of the greatest of KY. Score is a one-man play American figures." based on the (verbal) writings of The Columbus Dispatch Leonard Bernstein. It is the final theater critic Michael Greenberg ..., installment in a trilogy developed wrote, "Like the man it reflects, iil i: by SITI, of which the first was Score is full of charisma and C. Bob, about theatre director chameleonic charm. And in ~.,., C: Robert Wilson; and the second moments when this moves '°C: was Room, about Virginia Woolf. beyond words and ego to spirit, "'I!<> ;,:, Director Anne Bogart shared via lilting music or meditative ai these thoughts: "Score is about silence, Bogart's SITI Company V, -g. a passionate relationship between touches the transcendent." • ::, '§, a man and music. 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Nos. 1 through 5 • The BBC Symphony eonard Slatkin and the BBC pianist in THE AGE OF ANXI LSymphony Orchestra have ETY and Michelle De Young as recently released a recording of the soloist in JEREMIAH. Bernstein's SYMPHONY NO. 1: Gramophone magazine said of "JEREMIAH"; SYMPHONY NO. 2: this recording, "Strong soloists, "THE AGE OF ANXIETY" and idiomatic playing and nuanced DIVERTIMENTO. Released on conducting bring Bernstein to the Chandos la be!, this recording bustling life." • features James Tocco as the Bernstein on DVD e are pleased to announce W that Leonard Bernstein's performances and lectures are beginning to appear on DVD. Recently Kultur Video released THE UNANSWERED QUES TION, SIX TALKS AT HARVARD (THE NORTON LECTURES) on DVD. Deutsche Grammophon recently released the DVD of The Making of West Side Story, a documentary by Humphrey Burton featuring Kiri Te Kanawa and Jose Carreras. Universal Japan has released many of the historic Vienna Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic and Bavarian Radio Symphony performances, including Beethoven Symphonies and Piano Concertos, Mahler Symphonies, the Mozart Requiem and others. These DVDs are available in the United States from www.leonardbernstein. com/store/. • [ WESj SID( STORY L A WEST June 24-30 Vienna, VA Wolftrap July 2-7 Las Vegas, NV Aladdin SIDE STORY July 9-14 Atlanta, GA Theater of the Stars Summer July 17-27 Houston, TX Theatre in Herman Park July 30-August 4 Green Bay, WI Wiedner Center August 5-11 Memphis, TN Orpheum Theatre W EST SIDE STORY will be September 3-8 Detroit, Ml Fox Theatre performed throughout the United States this summer. September 10-15 Charlotte, NC Blumenthal Center ... The productions will all be September 17-22 Buffalo, NY Sheas' Theatre directed and choreographed by "'iil Alan Johnson and the musical September 24-29 Providence, RI Performing Arts Center c C. director will be Donald Chan. !"..,, October 1-6 Hartford, CT The Bushnell C: Chan has conducted more WEST <.O C: SIDE STORIES than any other .. October 8-13 Rochester, NY The Auditorium 110 conductor. These productions :,0 October 15-20 Baltimore, MD The Lyric ~ will have new sets designed by V, Leo Meyer with lighting by October 22-November 3 St. Louis, MO The Fox ~s · '°vi Ken Billington. C • 3 For a more extensive listing, go to 3 ~ N 0 www.westsidestory.com 0 N e Dear Isaac, you've listened to so many praises Prince Isaac And speeches, replete with grandiloquent phrases, That you might be thankful if I may propose To spare you tonight any ponderous prose, And toast you in verse, eptember 2001 marked the For better or worse. Spassing of Leonard Bernstein's dear friend and colleague, Isaac This poem, which does not pretend to be art, Stern. Stern and Bernstein had a Is entitled Prince Issac, and comes from the heart. long friendship. They performed What is a prince? An heir to a throne together on many occasions, Which he one day will occupy, grandly alone? including Stern's premiere of Not Isaac: His gift is to give and to share, Bernstein's SERENADE (for violin Leonard Renouncing the kingship, remaining the heir and orchestra). On December 3, To the kingdom of music, of beauty and truth, Bernstein and 1980 Bernstein wrote the following And justice and peace, and the glory of youth. tribute which he read at a dinner Isaac Stern in party in honor of Isaac Stern A curious prince, who deigns not to reign, Venice. at New York's Lotos Club the But rather to serve, in Apollo's train; following evening. • To serve and to share; And his shares all return To reward and ennoble Prince Isaac Stern. A curious Prince, never sporting his crest, Who'd rather rejoice in his family nest. But that nest is a princedom, a family realm With its palace a tree, a wide-spreading elm Whose branches are music, and players of same, And whose sap is the blood of his family nane. One branch is Michael, one branch is Vera, One is called David, another called Shira. A bright leaf call Itzhak, another called Mintz, And Pinky - all stemming from Isaac the Prince. This elm is not high, neither haughty nor tall, But lordly in width, embracing us all: Colleagues, disciples, and friends by the ton Of whom I am happily proud to be one. I conclude with a question, with which I began: What is a prince? A prince is a man Called Isaac; And all men are princes who learn The lesson, and wisdom, of Isaac Stern. Leonard Bernstein 0 Amberson Holdings LLC, 2002 Remembering Sylvia Goldstein n the early 1940s, a bright young was still working there. Sylvia .,, Iwoman named Sylvia Goldstein worked very closely with the iil c helped Leonard Bernstein gain his Amberson staff throughout the C. !".,., first publications: piano arrange ensuing years and truly was a life C ments for solo piano and one for saver in many complex negotia "'C .. piano duo of Copland's El Salon tions. After she retired from I!<> :,:, Mexico. At the time, Sylvia was Boosey in 1993, Amberson was :ii V,"' secretary to Ralph Hawkes at blessed by her expertise and ~s · Boosey & Hawkes Inc., the music wisdom as a consultant during a passage from Proverbs which '& the formation of the Leonard C publisher. In 1975, Boosey became applies equally to our dearly 3 3 the agent for Leonard Bernstein's Bernstein Music Publishing missed friend Sylvia: "Who can ~ N music publishing. It was our Company. In his 1983 opera A find a virtuous woman? Her 0 0 N good fortune that Sylvia Goldstein QUIET PLACE, Bernstein quotes price is far above rubies." • WEST SIDE STORY: A Teaching Diary, continued (continued from page 3) to be a fair fight." "How could ask who they think is responsible playing with the mannequins in Tony jump that fence after being for Tony's death. Everyone has Madam Lucia's, they giggle, but beaten up so badly?" "Could their own opinion and wants to then calm down as the pretend Riff and Bernardo really have share it. The class is over. We'll wedding starts. died that fast after only one stab continue our discussion tomorrow. In our discussion they are angry wound?" "Why isn't there any After viewing the film, the at the way Schrank treats the boys. blood?" (Seventh graders. You students write a summary of it We talk about the symbolism when gotta love 'em.) I have to stop as I play the soundtrack. By the the Sharks whistle My Country the discussion because we are second day, several of the students Tis of Thee as they leave Doc's. totally out of time. We'll see the are singing along. By the end of "I thought you said we would see end of the video tomorrow. the seven-week class, several of the rumble today," someone says. Day five: We start right before the kids will own either the video Tomorrow. I promise. A Boy Like That/I Have a Love. or soundtrack. They love it that Day four: The kids hurry (Which by the way, is one of their much. Students that have gone through the review so that I can least favorite songs. Too much on to Phys Ed want to come back get the tape started. Today is like opera, they say.) They see so that they can watch it again. what they've been waiting for. Anita going to Doc's to help, only There's just something about The rumble! They watch as the to be harassed by the Jets. When WEST SIDE STORY that draws Jets and Sharks collect weapons Anita says that Maria is dead, I students of this age to it. As for in Quintet. Someone comments hear a couple of students calling me, I plan to continue showing that it is supposed to be a fair her a liar. Several think it's true. it to students for years to come. fight. When the rumble starts, Like yesterday, the entire class is I get such pleasure out of being you can hear a pin drop in the glued to the TV. When Tony runs the one showing it to them for room. The kids are glued to the into the streets yelling for Chino, the first time. I laugh with them screen. I am watching them. I you can feel the tension in the and cry with them. Each class love to see their reactions to this room. As Chino shoots Tony, brings a new set of feelings and part. When Riff runs into many gasps are heard. A couple emotions. I never get tired of it. Bernardo's knife, I hear several of the girls (me included) get tears They may forget my name long gasps. A couple of girls have their in their eyes. (You would think after they have gone on to high hands over their mouths. They that after seeing this over 125 school and college, but they will watch as Tony stabs Bernardo. times, I would stop crying.) They remember me as "The WEST Some of the boys look pleased. watch the end in silence. I have SIDE STORY lady. " I can't think The fighting is looking more to wait a minute to start today's of a better title. • realistic now. The tape continues discussion. There must be some and I stop it after Cool. The dis thing in my throat. We discuss Ann Mayle teaches at Suncrest cussion today is more animated. Maria's speech. They decide that Missie School in Morgantown, WV Everyone wants to say some the moral of the story is that hate thing. "I thought it was supposed killed Tony, Bernardo, and Riff. I The Leonard Bernstein Discography: New on the Web, continued (continued from page7) offered at the top of the classifi Some formatting problems also "ti iil 2001 releases as the Boston cation follow the format of the remain, but we have been anxious i: a. Symphony Orchestra's 1949 main body of the document and to get going onto the world-wide !1> -n premiere of Bernstein's AGE OF pertains only to that Section. web. We would of course be C '°C ANXIETY with the composer as Hopefully, it will be possible most appreciative if surfers would .. RO pianist under the baton of Serge to bring this resource up to speed, enlighten us as to any other ;:,:, ai Koussevitsky or violinist Joshua but this may well turn out to be a errors of omission or commission V, Bell's recording of WEST SIDE pipedream. After all, WEST they may uncover. Happy hunt- ~s · '& STORY SUITE will not be found SIDE STORY albums and single ing to all! • C 3 here. Neither does the guide songs continue to rain and reign. 3 ~ N 0 0 N *Partial listing. Please note that all dates and programs are subject to change. For a more Calendar of Events complete listing visit leonard bernstei n.com January February continued 5-7 Houston, TX: SERENADE; Houston 9 Amsterdam, Netherlands: SYMPHONY NO. 2 Symphony; Alan Gilbert, conductor; Joshua "THE AG E OF ANXIETY "; Netherlands Rad io Bell, violin; Jones Hall. Philharmon ic; Edo De Waart, conductor; Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano; Concertgebouw. 9-13 San Francisco, CA: SERENADE; San Francisco Symphony Orchestra; lngo Metzmache r, 9 Tampa, FL: TROUBLE IN TAHITI, SUITE FROM conductor; Joshua Bell, violin; Davies Hall. WEST SIDE STORY, CANDIDE SU ITE; Opera Tampa; Nat Chandler, Sam; Linda 10-12 Minneapolis, MN: OVERTURE TO CANDIDE, Thompson Wi lliams, Dinah; Vernon Hartmann, THREE DANCE EPISODES FROM ON THE TOWN; conductor; Anton Coppola, conductor; Tampa Minnesota Orchestra; Yakov Kreizberg, Bay Perform in g Arts Center. conductor; Orchestra Hall. 10 Brussels, Belgium: SYMPHONIC DANCES 12 Sydney, Australia: Selections from CANDIDE; FROM WEST SIDE STORY; Orchestre Sydney Concert Orchestra; Brian Castles-Onion, Symphonique de la Monnaie; Antonio conductor; Sydney Opera House. Pappano, conductor; Pa lais des Beaux-Arts. 16, 18, Minneapolis, MN: SYMPHONIC SUITE FROM 16,19, New York, NY: FANCY FREE; New York City 19 ON THE WATERFRONT; Minnesota Orchestra; 20,22 Ballet; State Theatre. Yakov Kreizberg, conductor; Orchestra Hall. 21 London, UK: SYMPHONY NO.2 "THE AGE OF 17-19 Dallas, TX: SYMPHONY NO . 2: "THE AG E OF ANXIETY"; James Tocco, piano; BBC Symphony ANXIETY"; Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, conductor, Barbican. Andrew Litton, conductor; William Wo lfram, piano; Symphony Center. 23 Tampa, FL: WEST SIDE STORY MEDLEY, CANDIDE OVERTURE, THREE DANCERS FROM 17-20 Seattle, WA: SERENADE; Seattle Symphony ON THE TOWN, EXCERPTS FROM MASS AND Orchestra; lngo Metzmacher, conductor; CANDIDE; Tampa Bay Youth Orchestra; Bill Joshua Be ll , violin; Benaroya Hall. Wiedrich, conductor; Tampa Bay Performing 30,31 Costa Mesa, CA: SYMPHONY NO. 2 "THE Arts Center. AGE OF ANXIETY"; Pacific Symphony; Carl St. 23 London, UK: SYMPHONY NO.1 "JEREMIAH", Clair, conductor; Benjamin Pasternak, piano; SYMPHONY NO.3 "KADDISH"; Janice Orange County Performing Arts Center. Watson, mezzo-soprano; BBC Symphony Orchestra; BBC Symphony Chorus; Leonard Slatkin, conductor; Barbican. February 28 Atlanta, GA: SERENADE; Atlanta Symphony; 3 Amsterdam, Netherlands: SYMPHON IC Alan Gilbert, conductor; Joshua Bel l, violin; DANCES FROM WEST SIDE STORY; Woodruff Arts Center. Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra; Lawrence Renes, conductor; Concertgebouw. 4 Tampa, FL: Basically Bernstein; Symposium March on Bernstein's music featuring Tampa Bay Youth Orchestra; William Wiedrich, conductor 1,2 Atlanta, GA: SERENADE; Atlanta Symphony; "ti Alan Gi lbert, conductor; Joshua Bel l, violin; ii! and lecturer; Tampa Bay Perform ing c a. Arts Center. Woodruff Arts Center. f.O.,, C: 8 Decatur, GA: We Are Women - Songs of 2,7 Berlin, Germany: SYMPHON IC DANCES "'C: .. Leonard Bernstein; Jamie Bernstein Thomas, FROM WEST SIDE STORY; Berliner Sinfonie QO Orchester; Christian Arming, conductor; "' narrator; Michael Barrett, conductor; Cynthia a: Watters, soprano; Elizabeth Shammash, Konzerthaus. V, -g. mezzo-soprano; Jeffrey Picon, tenor; Phillip :::J 2,3,5 Vienna, Austria: SYMPHONIC DANCES LO i); Cutlip, baritone; Agnes Scott College. C FROM WEST SIDE STORY; 3 3 8,9 Fairfax, VA: MASS; George Mason University Niederbsterreichisches Tonkunstlerorchester, ~ N Carlos Kalmar, conductor; Musikvereinsaal. 0 Co ll ege of Visual and Performing Arts; Douglas 0 N Webster, ce lebrant; Rick Davis, director; Stan Engebretson, conductor; Center for the Arts. March continued April continued 7-19 Munich, Germany: ON THE TOWN; Students 10 Liverpool, UK: SYMPHONIC DANCES FROM of Bayerische Theaterakademie; WEST SIDE STORY; Royal Liverpool Prinzregententheater. Philharmonic; Michael Christie, conductor; Philharmonic Hall. 7,9 Rotterdam, Netherlands: WONDERFUL TOWN; Kim Criswell, soprano; Cynthia 13, 17, Munster, Germany: TROUBLE IN TAHITI; Haymon, soprano; Brent Barrett, tenor; Kurt 21 Symphonieorchester der Stadt; Andreas Wolf, OIiman, baritone; Rotterdam Philharmonic; musical director; Sradtische Buhnen Munster. Rotterdam Chorus; Wayne Marshall, 14 Boston, MA: SERENADE; Pro Arte Chamber conductor; De Doelen. Orchestra; Isaiah Jackson, conductor; Irina 12 New York, NY: CH ICHESTER PSALMS; Muresanu, violin; Sanders Theatre. Orchestra of St. Luke's; Susan Medly, 14, 15 Hamburg, Germany: MASS; Maburgische conductor; Carnegie Hall; Carnegie Hall High Staatsoper; John Casmore, Celebrant; lngo School Chora l Festival. Metzmacher, conductor; Staatsoper. 13 Vigo, Spain: CAND IDE OVERTURE; SYM 15, 17 Lille, France: CANDIDE OVERTURE, PHON IC DANCES FROM WEST SIDE STORY; SERENADE, SYMPHON IC DANCES FROM Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra; Adrian WEST SIDE STORY; Lille National Orchestra; Sunshine, conductor; Centro Cultura l Caixavigo. John Axelrod, conductor; Stefan Stalanowski, 14 Copenhagen, Denmark: SERENADE; Danish viol in; Nouveau Siecle. National Radio Symphony orchestra; Gary 24-26 Washington, DC: SERENADE; National Bertini, conductor; Joshua Be ll , vio li n; Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, Radiohusets Koncertsal. conductor; Joshua Bell, violin; Kennedy Center. 16 Canberra, Australia: TROUBLE IN TAHITI; 25,26 New York, NY: ON THE TOWN; Friends Canberra Symphony Orchestra; Simon Seminary. Kenway, conductor; Madew Winery. 27 Aix les Bain, France: MASS (Concert 18,20 Seoul, Korea: SERENADE; Korean Chamber performance) Ensemble vocal Gondwana, Ensemble; Piotr Borkowski, conductor; Soo Mixed Choir and Boys Choir of Savoie; Hyun Kwon, conductor; Seou l Arts Center. Eduardo Lopes, conductor; Palais des Congress. 20,21, Stockholm, Sweden: SYMP HONY NO.1 28 Lubeck, Germany: SYMPHONY NO.2 "THE 23 "JEREMIAH"; Martina Dike, alto; Royal AGE OF ANX IETY "; Bu lh en der Hansestadt Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra ; Alan Lubeck; John Neschling, conductor; James Gilbert, conductor; Konserthuset. Tocco, piano; Kongresshalle. 21,22, Tuscon, AZ: FANCY FREE, THREE DANCE 24 VAR IATIONS FROM ON THE TOWN; Tu cson Symphony Orchestra; George Hanson, conductor; Tucson Convertion Center May Music Hall . 3 London, UK: CHICHESTER PSALMS; National 24-26 Washington, DC: SERENADE; National Symphony Orchestra; Brighton Festival Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, Chorus; Leonard Slatkin, conductor; Barbican. .,, conductor; Joshua Bell, violin; Kennedy Center. iil i: 4, 12, New York, NY: FANCY FREE; New York City C. .!" 17 Ballet; State Theater. "Ti C: IC 5 Cologne, Germany: SYMPHONY NO. 3 ..C: 11<> April "KADDISH"; Vornelia Froboess, speaker; ;:,:, :ii Susanne Blattert, soprano; Gurzenich-Chor "' 5-21 Dayton, OH: CANDIDE; Michael McConnel l, V> Koln; Staatsph il harmonie Rhein land-Platz; ~- director; Joseph Bates, Music Director; Dayton ::, Michael Reif, conductor; Philharmonie . '& Opera Association; Victoria Theatre. C 3 8 Hannover, Germany: SERENADE; National 3 5 London, UK: SYMPHONIC DANCES FROM ~ N Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, 0 WEST SIDE STORY; London Philharmonic; 0 conductor; Joshua Be ll , violin; Stadthalle. N Rachel Worby; Royal Festival Hall. G May continued May continued 9 Ljubljana, Slovenia: SERENADE, 18 Cincinnati, OH: MISSA BREVIS; Cincinnati CHICHESTER PSALMS; Sine Nomine Chorus; Symphony; May Festival Chorus; James National Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Conlon conductor; City Hall. Slatkin, conductor; Joshua Bell, viol in; 18 Madrid, Spain: SERENADE; National Canharijev Dom. Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatk in, 10 Vienna, Austria: SERENADE, CH ICHESTER conductor; Joshua Bell, violin; Music Hall. PSALMS; Sine Nomine Chorus; National 19 Cincinnati, OH: SELECTIONS FROM THE Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, LARK; May Festival Chorus; Robert Porco, conductor; Joshua Bell, violin; Konzerthaus. conductor; Music Hall. 11,13, Portland, OR: CANDIDE (NYCO VERSION); 19 Lisbon, Portugal: SERENADE; National 15, 18 Portland Opera; Chris Mattaliano, director; Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin, Michael Barrett, conductor; Keller Auditorium . conductor; Joshua Be ll , violin; Auditorio de Fundacao Guldenkian. 23-26 Denver, CO: MASS; Co lorado Symphony; Marin Aslop, conductor; Leon Williams, Celebrant; Colorado Children's Chorale; Colorado Symphony Chorus; Boettcher Concert Ha ll. 24 Cincinnati, OH: SYMPHONY NO .3 KADD ISH; Cincinnati Symphony; James Conlon, conductor; Jamie Bernstein Thomas, speaker; Florence Quivar, soprano; Cincinnati Chi ldren's Choir; Robyn Lana, Director; May Festival Chorus Music Hall . 25 Cincinnati, OH: SELECTIONS FROM MASS; Cincinatti Symphony; James Conlon, conductor; Thomas Young, tenor; Desiree Rancatore, soprano; Donnie Ray Albert, baritone; Cincinnati Chi ldren's Choir; Robyn 15 Newark, NJ: SYMPHONY NO. 1 "JEREMIAH"; Lana, director; May Festival Youth Chorus; Florence Quivar, mezzo-soprano; New Jersey James Bagwell, director; May Festival Chorus; Symphony Orchestra; Zdenek Macal, conductor; Robert Porco, director; Music Hall. New Jersey Performing Arts Center. 30,31 Adelaide, Australia: SYMPHONIC DANCES 16 Guilford, UK: TROUBLE IN TAHITI; Guildford FROM WEST SIDE STORY; Adelaide Symphony Opera; Ol iver Parker, conductor; Orchestra; Rachel Worby, conductor; Town Hall. The Electric Theatre. 16 Lille, France: SYMPHONY NO. 2 "THE AGE OF ANX IETY"; Lille National Orchestra; .,, Michiyoshi Inoue, conductor; Fazil Say, June iil piano; Nouveau Siecle. i: 1 Adelaide, Australia: SYMPHON IC DANCES C. !D.,, 16 London, UK: THREE DANCE EPISODES FROM FROM WEST SIDE STORY; Adelaide Symphony C: Orchetsra; Rachel Worby, conductor; Town Hall. '°C: "ON THE TOWN"; BBC Concert Orchestra; 11) I!<> Barry Wordsworth, conductor; Royal Festival Hall. :,, 6,7 London, UK: SERENADE; London Symp hony ~ 16,21 New York, NY: SERENADE; New York Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor; V> -g_ Philharmonic; Kurt Masur, conductor; Glenn Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin; Barbican. :::, ~ Dicterow, vio lin; Avery Fisher Hall. C 7, 10 Cologne, Germany: SERENAD E; New York 3 3 17 Cincinnati, OH: OLYMPIC HYMN; Cincinnati Philharmon ic; Kurt Masur, conductor; ~ N Symphony; May Festival Chorus; James Glenn Dicterow, violin; Koiner Philharmonie. 0 0 N Conlon, conductor; Music Hall. June continued JU ly continued 8 Los Angeles, CA: CHICHESTER PSLAMS; 19 Rome, Italy: SERENADE; Orchestra Filarmonica Angeles Chorale and UCLA Chorale; Donald di Roma; Jonathan Sheffer, conductor; Neunen, conductor; Royce Hall. Nurit Pacht, violin; Grandi Terme Villa Adriana. 9 Eindhoven, Netherlands: THE BERNSTEIN 25 Rome, Italy: SYMPHONIC DANCES FROM BEAT; Claire Edwards, narrator; Het Brabants WEST SIDE STORY; Orchestra Filarmonica di Orkest; Alexander Liebreich, conductor; Roma; Boris Brott, conductor; Teatro Romano Muziekcentrum Frits Philips. di Ostia Antica. 14, 17 Vienna, Austria: ON THE TOWN; Students of 29 Rome, Italy: SERENADE, OVERTURE TO the University for Music; Neue Stud io Buhne. CANDIDE Orchestra Filarmonica di Roma; 16 Potsdam, Germany: SERENADE; Paolo Ponziano Ciardi, conductor; Grande Terme Vil la Adriana. Staatsorchester Frankfurt; Heribert Beissel, conductor; Kolja Blacher, violin; Staatstheater. 19 Nagoya, Japan: SER ENADE; New York Philharmonic; Kurt Masur, conductor; Glen August Dicterow, violin; Aichi Arts Center Concert Hall. 5 Bregenz, Austria: SYMPHONIC DANCES 23 Hamamatsu, Japan: SERENADE; New York FROM WEST SIDE STORY; Wiener Philharmonic; Kurt Masur, conductor; Glen Symphoniker; Wayne Marshall, conductor; Dicterow, vio li n; Act City Hamamatsu. Festspielhaus. 23 Wuppertal, Germany: CHICHESTER 12 Lenox, MA: TROUBLE IN TAHITI; Vocal PSALMS; Christiane Oeize, soprano; Fellows of the TMC; Tanglewood Music Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal; Chor St. Center Orchestra; Federico Cortese, Michaelis Hamburg; Christoph Schoener, conductor; Tanglwood. conductor; Hauptkirche St. Michaelis. 23 Salzburg, Austria: SYMPHONY No . 1 25 Tokyo, Japan: SERENADE; New York "JEREMIAH"; Radio Symphon ie Orchester Philharmonic; Kurt Masur, conductor; Wien; Dennis Russell Davies, conductor; Glen Dicterow, violin; Suntory Hall . Solveig Kringelborn, soprano; Felsenreitschule. 28-29 Minneapolis, MN: CANDIDE (Scottish Opera Version); Minnesota Orchestra; Scott Turrell , conductor; Chad Shelton, Candide; Harolyn Blacjwell, Cunegonde; Stephen Yoakam, Pangloss; Orchestra Hall. 29 Indianola, IA: CANDIDE (Scottish Opera [ Note to Readers ] Version); The Des Moines Opera Company; Robert L. Larson, conductor and stage director; Blanl Performing Arts Center. 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