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News for friends of Leonard Bernstein Fall 2000 Measuring a Maestro for To Our the Ages (Again) Readers
by David Mermelstein ow in the world did ten Excerpted, © 2000 by the New Hyears go by since th e death York Times. Used by permission. of Leonard Bernstein? We miss him terribl y, yet in a way he is ven those unmoved by more with us than ever and Leonard Bernstein's seemingly everywhere. In Europe, Eexuberanc musicianshi p there is a Bernstein Day in France, find it impossible to deny a KADDISH in Nuremburg, his magnetism. As conductor while in Italy this su mmer th ere and pianist, Bernstein energized were two major Bernstein events: audi ences . Hi s exciting podium MASS at the Vatican, no less - presence was the stuff of legend, and how we wish the Maestro and caricature. Yet his enthusiasm himself cou ld have been there for music was real - innate, even for that one! Then in July, - and not merely generated for WEST SIDE STORY brought public co nsumption. th e diffident Milanese to their With Bernstein's death in 1990, feet at La Scala . The juxtaposi aud iences lost a maestro who tion of La Scala's ornate go ld cou ld be many things but never and velvet boxes with the stark boring. A decade on, no one has metal fire escapes onstage co me close to replacing him, either was memora ble. on the podium or in the public There is a flurry of Be rn stein imagin ation. So it is easy to 0 reco rdings making news: Sony understand why So ny Classical ; Classica l's Bernstein Century has opted to ring out th e old ~ series is getting deserved praise mil lenn ium with a garga ncu an I (see article), while the New series of midprice CD reissues York Philharmonic is releas ing titl ed Bernstein Cencury. Bemstei11 d11ri11g the Philharmonic Years. a special 10-CD set of never The appe llati on is, of course, before-released live recordings too grand on severa l counts. ava il ab le, roug hl y half of the speed and lean textures but also of Bernstein conducting the Although Sony's va ults (formerly co ndu ctor's Co lu mbia output. majes ty. In Brahms, Bernstein orchestra , containing all kinds Columbi a's, th en CBS's) co ntai n Na turall y, Bernstein Ce ntury co nfounds expecta ti ons, upendin g of delights and treasures. As if a trove of Bernstein's best gives pride of place to the twin th e warm approach maestros like all that were not enough, recordings, most of hi s ea rly ones pillars of the conductor's collabo Bruno Walter made standard . Deutsche Grammophon is were made for RCA and hi s later ration with Columbia: Mahler Bernstein's recordings from the releasing a premiere recording of ones for Deutsc he Grammophon. and American music. Bernstein ea rly to mid-60's lack that lam A WHITE HOUSE CANTATA, Still, hi s Columbia discs represent brought to Ma hl er lasting public bency, su bstituting pure power crea ted from Bernstein's ill-fated a signal achievement. Here is recognition and to American instead . If precision is sacr ificed in musical, 1600 PENNSYLVANIA America's first nat ive-born music the wider audiences sought the process, passion certain ly is AVENUE . At la st, the wonderful cond ucting superstar at the very by hi s mentor Serge Koussevitzky. not: Bernstein's acco unt of the music from that lost work will summit of hi s powers, driven but But many of the happiest Academic Festiva l Overture be available to one and all. not yet mannered, eb ullient but discoveries in this col lecti on li e (SMK 61846), for instance, We miss him, yes, but th anks not yet se lf-indulgent. somewhat off the beaten path. charges ahead on more than just to Bernstein's prolific creativity Bernstein record ed aro und 500 Although Brahms was hardl y ce lebratory vim . Yet he was neve r and th e miracle of recorded works for Columbia from 1950 unkn own territory for Bernstein, interested in brute force alone, as so und, there are many ways to th rough the ?O's with the New the composer's scores never th e And ante from the Third keep him near us. J.B.T. • York Philharmonic. To dare, 80 occupied the Olympian ground he Symphony (SMK 61829), filled Bernstein Century CD's are reserved for Beethoven, favor ing with ac hing romance, proves. (continued on page 5) In the News
New American Schools and Picker European Premiere the Bernstein Center
Michael Green, president of the n September 2 and 3, James (CD79246-2 ). The half-hour Gra mm y Foundation remarked at OLevine conducted The work has a dramatic design of the announcement event in Munich Philharmonic and soprano seven movements flanked by a Washington, DC, "Leonard Judith Bettina in the European prelude and postlude - all of he Grammy Foundation's Bernstein 's beli ef that 'a great premiere of Tobias Pi cker's which elabora te material found TLeonard Bernstein Center for teacher is one who can light a Symphony No. 2: Aussohnug in the crucial vocal movement Learning is pleased to announce spark in yo u... settin g yo u afire (Reconciliation) for sopra no and which is based on the tex t that it has been approved as one with enthusiasm' is the underlying orchestra . The Leonard Bernstein Aussohnug by Goethe. of only nine nationally compre ph ilosophy of th e Bernstein mode l Music Publishing Co mpany John Van der Slice wrote in hensive school reform models, and fundamental to learn ing any publ ishes this work. Originally th e recording's program book, and the only arts-based model, to discipline. The addition of the commissioned for the Houston "The symphony achieves both a be adopted by th e non -profit Bernstein model to the NAS Symphony in 1986, it is ded icated formal balance and a sudden , organization New American portfolio highlights the benefits to Sergiu Comissiona who illuminating shift in perspective Schools (NAS). of arts-based learning, which conducted the premiere. He and which leaves the listener to ponder New American Schools was gives children a well-rounded the Houston Symphony later its implications long after the founded in 1991 by business education experience. " recorded it for Nones uch records work has ended." • leaders seekin g "break- th e-mold" The Bernstein model is being school reform models to improve utilized in schools in Portland our nation 's schools. The adop (O rego n), Cobb Co unty tion by NAS of the Leonard (Georgia ), New York City, Bernste in Center co mes at a time Lancaster (Pennsylvan ia), when educators, parents, legisla Nas hville, Indianapolis, Dallas West Side Story at La Scala tors and community groups are and Los Angeles. very concerned a bout their Alexander Bernstein said, "My schools and raking steps to father would be delighted to know change this situation. The addi that hi s vision now ha s the oppor tion of the Bernstein Center is tunity to be shared directl y with part of the effo rt by NAS to revo teachers and students in cla ssrooms ""\VT£ST SIDE STORY finally lutionize American classrooms nationwide, thanks to the efforts W at La Scala!" wrote the and increase student achievement of the Grammy Foundation and Itali an newspaper La Stampa. by offering educators a choice of now with th e effo rts of New Last Jul y the hi sto ric Teatro alla design models for school reform. American Schools." Sca la Opera House presented l~-~ "''·'·:,:~:~·:·~:::;,;:,':.·:~~;~~~~:~l~ ~- • eighteen sold-out performances WEST SIDE STORY , ~ .... J1rno, n : 1mmu:-.s AIH11t;i. 1.,\ tJ HE."ffS LlcOSA Hl) 0 1l F: R.'I/ST EL.'-' of WEST SIDE STORY. This - ST£PH!0' ~~Nlll!EIM i,;,- :-~- .lEl~mtf: IWllBJ:-.:s mostl y American cast was di rected by Joey McKnee ly. Donald Chan New Band Arrangements co nducted, addin g even more performances of WSS to the over l)O'l/,\ 1.ll\\lM : (' II\ .,_ one thousand he has already JOI •, ) ~i,·t:N ~:l' l,V done. The Itali ans welcomed it as part of th e standard repetoire. Here is what some of the critics oosey & Hawkes, In c. and contests and festival use. WEST had to say: BArrangers' Publ ishing Co mpany SIDE STORY offers numerous 2 "WEST SIDE STORY astoni shes "[WEST SIDE STORYJ lives are pleased to ann ounce th e opportuniti es. Tom Wallace has La Sca la." aga in in its spe nd or." laun ch of a brand new se ri es of fashioned severa l numbers - Corriere Della Sera - II Giorno marching band publications. including: Prologue, Maria, "[WEST SIDE STORY] mirac le in "The even ing ended in triumph." The initial group of releases Mambo, Cool, America, Milan." -Avvenire offers an exciting variety of Procession and Somewhere. • - La Repubblica "WEST SIDE STORY a success in material for half-time shows, Milan, with an exce llent company." - Famiglia Cristiana • Bernstein Live!
New York Philharmonic Special Editions
1969 to 1990. This release will be the gues; and rare photographs from conductor and audience is working fifth on the Specia l Editions label. the Philharmonic's archives. its audible magic. It is cause for Bernstein Live! captures 13 Bernstein Live! is a collabora celebration that the New York hours of recordings of Bernstein tion with Philharmonic Archivist/ Philharmonic has assembled these conducting the Philharmonic in Historian Barbara Haws, executive extraordinary performances for us works by Beethoven, Copland, producer, and producer Sedgwick to share. Even posthumously, Prokofiev, Bruckner, Barber, Clark, editor of Musical America, Bernstein gives us the opportunity Mozart, Britten, Stravinsky, who remarked, "I'm absolutely to participate in his galvanizing Rachmaninoff, Hindemith and thrilled that after three years of mu sical current." Jack Gottlieb others. Included is the historic searching, we located an excellent reminisces about the Maestro's 1970 concert featuring Scenes source for Bernstein's 1951 world adventurous program planning in his October, New York from Gotterdammerung with premiere broadcast of lves's a nostalgic essay entitled "I Turned TPhilharmonic Special Editions Eileen Farrell and Jess Thomas Symphony No. 2 - you know, Pages for Leonard Bernstein. " - the New York Philharmonic's and the world premiere recording the one where Ives himself wa s Available worldwide at select own label - will release Bernstein of Symphony No. 2 by Charles listening over the radio in his Tower Records stores beginning Live!, a 10-CD box set featuring Ives. Other featured performers kitchen and got so excited that he October 2000, the 10-CD set with never-before-commercially released are Byron Janis, Jacqueline du Pre. stood up and danced a jig? But, two companion books is $195. It live recordings of Philharmonic Wilhelm Kempf, Maynard Ferguson, really, what I find most gratifying may a !so be ordered in the U.S. performances led by Leonard Isaac Stern and others. Bernstein overall is that out of 33 perfor and Canada by calling toll-free Bernstein. The release of this limited the teacher is also represented when mances on this 10-CD set, 28 of 1-800-557-8268. For international edition set, which underscores he discusses and performs 20th them are of works Bernstein never te lephone orders call 1-317-781- Bernstein's unique relationship Century music. Bernstein Live! recorded commercially. " 1861. Foreign and domestic with the New York Ph ilharmonic, contains a wealth of documentation: Jamie Bernstein Thomas in her orders may al so be faxed to coincides with the Orchestra 's two companion volumes providing program book essay writes, 1-317-781-4608. The set is October 2000 performances new analytical program notes by "Because Leonard Bernstein was available on-line through the honoring the memory of Bernstein, Alan Rich; a comprehensive list of such a brilliant communicator, Special Editions e-STORE at who served as the Philharmonic's Bernstein's recordings with the there is an extra degree of energy www.newyorkphilharmonic.org.• music director from 1958 to 1969, Philharmonic; interviews with in hi s live recordings, where that and as its laureate conductor from musicians; recollections by collea- electrical circuit of musicians,
Disc 1 Stravinsky Song of the Nightingale Disc 6 Barber Seco nd Essay Elgar Cockaigne Overture Ru sso Sy mphon y No. 2 (May nard Ferguson , World Premiere ) Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto. No. 3 (Lazar Berman ) Ruggles Men and Mountain Iv es Sy mphony No. 2 (World Premi ere ) Disc 2 Thomson Th e Seine at Night Mozart Pi ano Concerto No . 23 (Byron Jani s) Disc 7 Shchedrin Mischievous Fo lk Ditties Webern Six Pi eces fo r Orches tra Stravinsky Ca priccio (Sey mour Lipkin ) Hind emith Sy mph ony, Mathis der Maler Henze Sy mphony No . 5 (World Premi ere) Bee thoven Triple Co ncerto Disc 3 Britten Spring Symphony (J ennifer Vyvyan , Regina Sarfaty, (Leon ard Bern stein, John Co ri gli ano, Laszlo Varga) Ri chard Lewis, et. al. ) Schumann Con ce rto fo r Ce ll o and Orches tra (J acquelin e du Pre) Disc 8 Bac h Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 Sibelius Four Songs (Ph yllis Curtin ) (Leonard Bernstein, Isaac Stern , John Wummer) Bruckn er Sy mphony No. 6 Disc 4 Moza rt Th e Magic Flute Overture 3 Beethoven Pi ano Concerto No . 3 (Wilh elm Kempf) Disc 9 Bernstein Discusses and Performs Twenti eth -Century Music Foss Quintets for Orchestra Co pl and An Outdoor Overture Xe naki s Pithopra kta (U. S. Premi ere) Disc 5 Prokofi ev Pi ano Conce rto No. 2 (Vladimir Ashk enaz y) Brant Antiphony One Mark evitch /ca re (U.S. Premi ere) Boul ez l111provisations sur Mallarme I (Marni Nixon, U.S. Premi ere) Varese Arca na Cage Atlas Ecliptica lis Disc 10 Wagner Ciitterdd111m eru11g, excerpts (Eilee n Farrell, Jess Thomas) Bernstein's MASS
MASS Revisited MASS at the Vatican
By.fames Carroll ences to the Vietnam conflict ever ast June Bernstein's MASS ©2000 by the author clearer. One "epistle" was an Lwas performed for the first used by permission actual letter that had been written time in the Vatican at the Sala by an anti-war protester from Nervi, to an audience of over n the late 1960's Jacqueline prison, and the text evoked the 8000 people including cardina ls, IKennedy asked Leonard counter-priests of Philip and priests and nuns. This historic Bernstein to compose a mass in Daniel Berrigan, Philip in prison event was presented by the honor of her slain husband to be at the time (as he is today, God Festival di Pasqua, under the aus performed at the dedication of bless him), and Daniel a fugitive, pices of the Vatican's Centra l Washington's Kennedy Center for soon to be jailed. These references Committee for the Grand Jubilee the Performing Arts. The resu lt prompted the ce lebrant to sing a 2000 and the President of the was Bernstein's "MASS: A Theater lyric prophetically challenging Italian Republic, and was funded Piece for Singers, Players and the audience itself: "You can lock by the City of Rome. Enrico Dancers," an extraordinary us up ," the priest sang in behalf Castiglioni produced and directed composition [written in collabora of a throng outside that hall, "but this performance. Boris Brott tion with Stephen Schwartz] that yo u cannot imprison the Word musical director conducted the Vatican program combined the production values of the Lord." orchestra, band and choruses of of opera, choral magnificence, the My thoughts have returned to the Santa Cecilia Academy. hip choreography of Broadway, of order - religious as well as Bernstein's MASS beca use I read Douglas Webster was the intricate symphonic harmonies - political. Bernstein's genius was to recently that it was to be performed Celebrant in an all-American cast and a heartbreaking narrative channel such upheava ls into his in the Vatican as part of the made up the Street People. Here is turning on the figure of an all music, and rhe dramatic structure Church's Jubilee 2000 celebration. what the Italian press had to say: too-h uman young priest. I was of the Catholic liturgy proved to be The news report defined MASS as "The MASS of Bernstein trium such a priest when I attended a the perfect vehicle for his expression. "exploring a crisis of faith," as if phant in the Vatican." performance of MASS in its Imagine the scene. The power the young priest had the problem, - Corriere Della Sera opening run in 1971, and it left elite of Washington, the func not the institution. The perfor "Bernstein's MASS conquers the me shaken. tionaries of the Nixon-Kissinger mance took place in the papal Vatican, a grand success." As I reca ll , critics did nor know war, crowded the opulent new audience hal l in June. One pictures - II Messaggero what to make of Bernstein's work, concert hall for what all expected a squirming audience of the clerical "At the Sala Nervi Bernstein's although President Kennedy's to be the society event of the censors and inquisitors who have MASS was performed for 8000 widow pronounced herself well season. The co nflicts of the era tried so hard to preserve the patri fortunate people." satisfied. Most audience members had been distilled by then into the archal system of power that MASS - JI Giornale • seemed to find the composition generational clash between yo ung stands against. But in truth, the difficult since it squared not at all and old, and there were very few inner circle of the Catholic Church with the liturgical masterpieces of young people in the audience. includes, as well, men and women Mozart, Bach, or even Britten. Thus the first shock of MASS capable of recognizing themselves Bernstein's sub ject was not the was that the priest-celebrant was in this cosmic drama of renewa l. "holy order" of a mass at all; himself so yo un g, a boy clothed in One im agines that a wil y Vatican rather, his subject was the fright si lk robes. He seemed so ill at ease misfit arranged for the staging of ening disorder of those unholy in the baroque vestments of the Bernstein's prophetic work in the times. The assass ination, after all, weighty past. The timeless recita heart of the Church, a signal that was its foundational event, and tion of the arcane fo rmul as kept its renewal is inexora bl e. Now if while Bernstein composed and getting interrupted by "epistles" Bernstein's MASS cou ld on ly 4 brought his MASS to the Kennedy from the present moment, and return to Washington. • Center stage, the war in Vietnam the powerful audience began to was undercutting the very idea sq uirm as MASS made its refer-
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(continued from page 1) Beethoven's genius and the creation (Bruno Walter, Otto Klemperer, discs. In American Masters (SMK A simil ar melding of muscu larity of a masterwork in terms that Dimitri Mitropoulos and Hermann 60594 ), Bernstein lea ds two and ardency characterizes challenge without alienating the Scherchen, among others, had symphonies feelingly: Roy Harris's Bernstein 's approach to Baroque untrained ear. recorded individual symphonies searing Third and Randall music, nor an area normall y Getting audi ences ro feel as he we ll before then. ) But Bernstein Thompson's pro pulsive Third . associa ted with him . In unorth o- did about music was perhaps at was the fi rs t to record all of In American Masters, Vo lume 2 dox, big-boned approaches to the core of Bernstein's being, and Ma hl er's sy mph oni es and a good (SMK 61849), he indulges in the Bach's St. Matthew Passion and one senses tha t generous and deal of hi s vocal music as we ll. ra uco us pleasures of Wa lter Handel's Messiah, Bernstein's enthusiastic spirit particu larly in Since then, most major con du ctors Piston's Tncredible Flutist and, ab undant verve and idiosyncratic performances of the big-hea rted have co mmitted Mahler cycles to with Orson Welles as narrator, he sp irituali ty go far toward 19th-and 20th-century orchestral disc. If anything, we have a surfeit blunts the political cant of Marc mitigating the violence he inflicts works that were central to hi s of Mahler records today. Blirzstein's Airborne Symphony. on the scores. The Messiah repertory. A 1959 recording of The si tuation may be less clear Naturally, no discussion of (SM2K 60205; two CD's), though Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade with regard to American music, Bernstein is complete without grandly conceived and bursting (SMK 60737), for exa mple, though which many insist still suffers mentioning his own co mpos iti ons, with ardor, is merc il ess ly less su pple and refined th an fr om neg lect. But if Koussevitzky works that pl ace the co ndu ctor in rearra nged by Bernstein. Yet his celebrated vers ions by Thomas cleared th e path, in concert and a singular category. Like his hero inclusion of the countertenor Beecham and Fritz Rein er, brims on record, then Bernstein paved Mahler, Bernstein exce lled at both Russell Oberlin among the with tension and color. the road. Certainly, the conductors conducting and composing, but so loists is inspired and forward- Similarly, a 1960 recording of Michael Tilson Thomas, Leonard Mahler, who died in 1911, left no looking. The St. Matthew Passion Tchaikovsky's Cap riccio Italien Slatkin and Gerard Schwarz, the real recorded legacy. Yes, other (SM2K 60727; two CD's), (SMK 61556), included as a fillip on best-known current advocates of esteemed conductors also rendered in English and severely a CD domi nated by an indifferent American music, benefited from composed, but how many music cut, proves more problematic. accou nt of the composer's Fourth Bernstein's reso luteness. lovers today clamor for the Still, the sextet of committed Symphon y, shows Bernstein at his symphonies of Wilhelm Furtwangler so loists, including th e soprano gra ndiose best in a piece that or Jean Martinon? Adele Addison (also featured in benefits from the theatrics. And For all the prejudicial comments Messiah) and the mezzo-soprano though hi s expansive account of leveled at Bernstein's concert Betty Allen, is worth hearing. And Sibelius's Second Symphony works - derivative, slight, turgid a 16-minute lecture by Bernstein, (SMK 61848) will not be to all - no one disputes the seriousness somewhat perversely tucked in as tastes, so me listeners may deli ght with which he approached their filler, offers an intelligent intro- in its sa nguine embrace. composition. Thar he left recordings duction, delivered in the conductor's Listeners of all stripes will be of hi s own works on ly enh ances inimitably accessible style. drawn to the recordings of Ma hler our apprecia tion of them, for who Bernstein's astonis hing abi li ty and American music that Bernstein better than this gifted maestro to to convey th e mea ning of music Century has so attractively interpret the wo rk of a major through speech was among his repackaged. In the scores, the American composer, especia lly if main strengths. And in a series of conductor's in terpretive powers At present, Bernstein Century the composer is himself? public talks, often televised or reached their summit, and although offers a dozen solidly packed CD's Un li ke the conductors who filmed, he eloq uentl y and plainly much has been written about his of American music, nor co unting were famo us in li fe but left only el ucidated for countless Americans, extraordinary sy mpathy for this the eight fea turing Bernstein's fai nt footprints, Bernstein seems especiall y the yo un g, the power of repertory, the greatest tribute to his own scores. For some, Bernstein's assured of hi s place in the co llective music ro enrich. Bernstein Cen tury powers as a world-class Mahlerian accounts of Copland, Ives, memory. And with this series, reveals this talent on a disc co upli ng and American-music advocate may Gershwin , Barber and Wi lli am Sony has final ly done an indis- 5 Beethoven's Eroica Symphony lie less in praising these outstanding Schuman are nor so much bench- purably great artist proud. Like with How a Great Symphony recordings than in noting what mark recordings as holy writ, for th e man himse lf, Bernstein Was Written, a 15-minute lectu re fo ll owed in their wake. the conductor enj oyed deep Century is grand ly amb iti ous, recorded in 1965 (SMK 60692). Mahler was hardly unknown associations with these composers. ab undantly intelligent and often In his characteristic nasal, grave ll y when Bernstein began championing Those less fam ili ar with this intensely moving. voice, the cond uctor explai ns hi s music on record in 1960. music sho uld relish two potpourri For more information visit: www.leonardbernstein.com • Upcoming Events
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2 Munich, Germany: Tobias Picker, 12-14, New York, NY: SYMPHONY #1: 28 Beijing, China: Leonard Bernstein 10th SYMPHO NY NO. 2 "A USSOHNUNG"; 17 JEREMIAH; New York Philh armonic; Memorial Anniversary Concert; Se lections Munich Philharmonic; James Levine, Rinat Shaharn, rnezzo-soprano; Leonard frorn CANDIDE, WEST SIDE STORY, conductor; Philharmonie des Gasteig. Slatk in , co ndu ctor; Avery Fisher Hall. ON THE TOWN, WONDERFUL 12 Adelaide, Australia: MASS; Helpmann 12 Villa Louvigny, Luxernbourg: THREE TOWN, AND 1600 PENNSYLVANIA Acaderny and Adela id e Conservato ry. DANCE EPISOD ES FROM ON THE AVENUE; Be ijing Music Festival Orchestra; Michael Barrett, conductor; 14 Arnstcrdam, Netherlands: SERENA DE; TOWN, SYMPHONIC DANCES FROM Pol y Internation al Thea tre. Ro ya l Concerrge bouw Orchestra; Joshu a WEST SIDE STORY, TWO MEDJTATIONS Bell, vio lin ; Dennis Ru sse ll Dav ies, FROM MASS, SYMPHONY #'I: 29 Beijing, China: BERNSTEIN BEAT; Beijing conductor; Concertgebouw. JEREMIAH; Orchestre Philharrnonique Music Fest ival Orchestra; Jarni e Bernstein de Luxembourg; Da vid Shall on, Thomas, narrator; Michael Barrett, 15-17, San Diego, CA: CANDlD E (Scottish Opera conductor; Conse rvatoi re de Musique. conductor; Xhongshan Co ncert Hall. 22-24, Version); Sa n Di ego Co mi c Opera; Marrin Wright, mu sica l director; Casa del Prado. 13 Vienna, Austria: CANDID E OVERTURE, SYMPHONIC DANCES FROM WEST 24 Berlin, Germany: tlALIL, SYMPHONY SIDE STORY, DIVERTIMENTO, WO N- #2: THE AGE OF ANXIETY, CANDIDE DER.FUL TOWN; Radio Syrnphony Orchestra November OVERTURE, THREE DANCE of Vienna; Kim Criswe ll , Audra McDona ld, EPISODES FROM ON TH E TOWN, Thomas Hampson, soloists; Wayne Marshall, 3,4 Perth, Australia: SYMPHONIC DANCES SYMPHON IC DA NCES FROM WEST conductor; Wiener Konzerrhaus. FROM WEST SIDE STORY; West SIDE STORY; Berliner Symphonik er; Au stralia Sy mphony Orchestra; Marin 14 Utrecht, The Netherlands: CAN DIDE Lior Shambada l, co nducto r; Philh armonie. Alsop, conductor; Concert Hall. SUITE, J-:IALIL; Radi o Filharmonisch 24 Paris, France: t{ ALIL; Orches tre Na ti onal Orkest; Alexa nd er Liebrich, co nductor; 8,9 Paris, France: CAND ID E OVERTURE, de France; Yutaka Sado, conducto r; Vredenburg Centrum. THREE DANCE EPISODES FROM ON Th ea tre des Champs-E lysees . THE TOWN, PRELUD E FUGUE AND 14 Asheville, NC: SERENADE, SYMPHONIC 26,28 RIFFS , SYMPHONIC DANCES FROM Montreal, Canada: CHJCHESTER PSALMS; DANCES FROM WEST SIDE STORY, WEST SIDE STORY; Orch estre Na tional Monrreal Syrnphonic Orch estra; Charl es CANDIDE OVERTURE: Asheville Dutoit, conductor; Salle Wilfr id -Pe ll etier. de France; Yutaka Sado, conductor; Symphony Orchestra; Daniel Hei fitz, Th ea tre des Champs-El ysees . 2S,30 Gothenburg, Sweden: SYMPHONY #1: violin; Robert Hart Baker, co nductor; JEREMIAH; Gothenburg Symphony Thomas Wo lfe Audito rium. 12 Portland, OR: THREE DANCE EPISODES FROM ON THE TOWN; Orchestra; B. Tommy Andersson, 15 Amsterdam, The Netherlands: HAUL, Oregon Symphony; Murry Sid lin , cond uctor; Konserrhu set. CAND[DE SUITE; Radio Filh armonisch conductor; Schnitzer Hall. 29,30 Munich, Germany: WEST SIDE STORY; Orkest; Jacques Zoon, flute; Alexander R. Klinge le, musical directo r; Staatstheater Li ebri ec h, cond uctor; Concertge bouw. 13 Paris, France: Bernstein Memorial Concert: Orchestre National de France; Yutaka Sado, am Garrnerplatz. 16 Villa Louvigny, Luxembourg: SONAT A conductor; Th ea tre des Champs-Elysees. 30 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: CAN DIDE; FOR CLARINET AND PIANO, 20 Munich, Germany: CANDIDE (Concert Thearro Municipal of Ri o de Jan eirio. SONATA FOR PIANO AND VIOLIN, TRIO FOR VIOLIN, VIOLO NCELLO Version ); Orchester des Staatstheaters am AND PIANO, SONGS; membe rs of the Garrnerplatz; Da vi d Sta hl , co nductor; orchestra; Roberta Alexander, soprano; Prinzregententheater. Roge r Vi gnol es, piano; Th eat re de la V. October Esch-S ur-Al zette. 1-3 London, UK: ON THE TOWN; BBC 18 London, England: CANDIDE (Scottish Opera Concert Orchestra with the London Version ); London Philharm oni c; Wayne December Voices; Kim Cri swe ll , Brent Ba rrett, Karl Marsha ll , conductor; Roya l Festi va l Hall. 1,2 Cincinnati, OH: SELECTIONS FROM Daymond, George Dvo rsky, Ned Sherrin; 20 Villa Louvigny, Luxembourg: CHI CHE- MASS; Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Paul Daniels, conductor; Roya l Festival Hall. STER PSALMS, J-:[ALIL, SYMPHONY #3: Erich Kunzel, cond uctor. 1,3, San Antonio, TX: BERNSTEIN BEAT; KADDI SH; Orchesrrc Philharm on iqu e du 7, 11, Lille, France: SYMPHONY #1 : JEREMIAH; 4,5 San Antonio Symphony; Jamie Bernstein Luxe mbou rg; Dav id Shallon, conductor; 12 Orchestre de Li ll e; Leonid Grin , Th omas, narra tor; Dave Mairs, Co nse rvato ire de Musique. conductor; No uvea u Siecle. 7 conductor; Majestic Theater. 25 Cologne, Germany: Leonard Bernsteill I S Brussels, Belgium: CHI CHESTER 8 Amsterdam, The Netherlands: THE BERNS- 10th Memorial Anniversary Events; PSALMS, SYMPHONIC DA NCES TE[N BEAT; Radio Fil harm oni sch Orkest; Humphrey Burton, lecturer; Students of FROM WEST SIDE STORY; Na tion al Alexander Liebrich, conductor; Concengebouw. the Hochsc hul e for Music; Hoc hschule. Orchestra of Be lgi um; Roman Kofman, 10 Amsterdam, Netherlands: SYMPHONIC 27-29 Los Angeles, CA: SYM PH ONY# I: conductor; Sa lle Henry Leboeuf. DANCES FROM WEST SIDE STO RY ; JEREMIAH ; Los Angeles Philharmonic Rotterd am Philh arm oni c Orchestra; Orchestra; Florence Quivar, mezzo- Gianandrea Noseda, conductor; so prano; Chri stop h Esc henbach , Concertgebouw. conductor; Dorothy Chandler Pavillion. Looking Ahead
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A WHITE HOUSE CANTATA Also this autumn, DG will in a performance of Mozart's represents the first time the music re lease a commemorative box set Piano Concerto No. 17, K.453. and lyrics will be available on CD. entitled: Lenny, The Legend Lives Also featured are recordings with This performance features the On. Included in this six CD set other orchestras, including London Symphony Orchestra and will be the first-time release of Bernstein's last concert of the the London Voices conducted by Bernstein conducting the Vienna Beethoven Symphony No. 7 and Kent Nagano. Featured soloists Philharmonic from the keyboard the Britten Four Sea Interludes; are Thomas Hampson in multi the Beethoven Piano Concerto presidental roles and June Anderson No. 5 with Krystian Zimerman as the First Ladies. Barbara and the Brahms Double Concerto Hendricks performs the role of with Gidon Kremer and Mischa Seena and Kenneth Tarver performs Maisky; Mozart's Mass in C WHITE HOUSE CANTATA the role of Lud, her husband . minor; Mahler's Symphony Ais the concert adapta tion of Warren Hoge in The New York No. 5; an d a CD of American the Bernstein - Lerner failed Times wrote after the London composers featuring Gershwin, musica l 1600 PENNSYLVANIA premiere of A WHITE HOUSE Copland, Barber and Harris. • ,, ugmd hf.!)c\ifRD BERNSTEIN AVENUE. The musical was never CANTATA, " .. .the result is an 11 recorded, so DG's recording of exuberant work."
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