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| Aaron Copland (1900-1990) | ...LEONARD BERNSTEIN (conductor)... |
| Afternoon Performance | ...The BBC Philharmonic perform a rare Bernstein piece and two Serge Koussevitztky commissions that received their original Tanglewood premieres under the baton of Koussevitzky's greatest protege, LEONARD BERNSTEIN.... |
| And The Academy Award Goes To | ...Paul tells the story of how West Side Story won 10 Oscars in 1961 and hears from producers, stars and musicians involved in the film. It tackles tough issues through the medium of the musical. With a fresh young cast that included Natalie Wood in her first adult role, the movie sizzles with colour, drama, the outstanding choreography of Jerome Robbins, the music of LEONARD BERNSTEIN and the lyrics of a young Stephen Sondheim. Behind the scenes, however, there were arguments, dubbings and overuns, plus issues over racial casting and 'blacking up'. Yet what emerged from a tumultuous production was a trumph.... |
| Artist Focus | ...With Petroc Trelawny. Featuring American conductor Marin Alsop, who was a pupil of LEONARD BERNSTEIN. Including her recording of Bernstein's Divertimento.... |
| Bbc Proms | ...The CBSO adventurously gave a complete Charles Ives symphony cycle in BIRMINGHAM last season. Sakari Oramo now brings the huge Fourth Symphony to the Proms to mark the 50th anniversary of Ives's death. Stravinsky's puppet ballet Petrushka continues our 75th-anniversary tribute to Diaghilev, and the lively mix is completed by LEONARD BERNSTEIN's infectiously rhythmic Hebrew psalm-settings, composed for Chichester Cathedral.... |
| Beethoven Experience, The | ...LEONARD BERNSTEIN (conductor)... |
| Bernstein Remembered | ...Tommy Pearson is joined by LEONARD BERNSTEIN's daughter Jamie Bernstein and his biographer Humphrey Burton to reflect on the life and legacy of one of the most dynamic and influential figures of 20th century music.... |
| Bernstein Season | ...Tommy Pearson and Humphrey Burton introduce the first in a week of concerts celebrating the life and music of LEONARD BERNSTEIN, including youthful memories and modern classics, a breathless overture and Sarah Nicolls as the soloist in a symphony that searches for faith in a modern world. Recorded earlier in the year at St David's Hall, Cardiff.... |
| Between The Ears | ...Mark Russell introduces a specially mixed performance of the symphony, reflecting its impact on the aural landscape of the late 20th century. With contributions from Dai-Chi and Valentin (pianos), the training orchestra of the Central Music School, Oxford, Professor Peter Schickele, Walter Murphy's `A Fifth of Beethoven', Les Quatre Barbus, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Roaring Jelly, singing dogs, LEONARD BERNSTEIN and many, many more. Technical presentation Marvin Ware. Devised and produced by Alan Hall.... |
| Broadway Icons | ...Includes songs by LEONARD BERNSTEIN, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Frank Loesser, Richard Rodgers, Frederick Loewe, Cy Coleman, Jerry Herman and Stephen Sondheim.... |
| Cd Masters Summary | ...LEONARD BERNSTEIN (conductor)... |
| Celebrating Jackie | ...LEONARD BERNSTEIN (conductor)... |
| Celebrating The Musical | ...8.31pm Opening Nights - West Side Story. Russell Davies recalls the opening of LEONARD BERNSTEIN's magnum opus.... |
| Charles Ives (1874-1954) | ...LEONARD BERNSTEIN (conductor)... |
| Composer Of The Week | ...LEONARD BERNSTEIN (conductor)... |
| Concert For Europe | ...LEONARD BERNSTEIN (Composer)... |
| Discovering Music | ...LEONARD BERNSTEIN's five movement concerto for violin, strings and percussion is one of his most personal compositions. It was inspired by Plato's Symposium, a discourse on love in all its aspects, and was presented in the form of a series of statements by celebrated guests at a banquet.... |
| Elaine Paige On Sunday | ...This week's guest is actor Henry Goodman, currently starring in the London revival of Fiddler on the Roof. His favourite Essential Musicals include David Zippel and Cy Coleman's City of Angels (1989); Stephen Sondheim's Assassins (1991) and the 1956 LEONARD BERNSTEIN and Richard Wilbur 'flop', Candide.... |
| Expressing Your Affection | ...LEONARD BERNSTEIN (conductor)... |
| Faith And Art - The Hussey Legacy | ...LEONARD BERNSTEIN (conductor)... |
| For One Night Only | ...At Christmas 1989, just a month after the Berlin Wall was first breached, LEONARD BERNSTEIN conducted an international cast in Berlin. Re-naming Beethoven's Ninth Ode to Freedom instead of Ode to Joy for the occasion, he rehearsed the various orchestras, choruses - including a children's choir - and soloists in West Berlin on Christmas Eve, then played East Berlin's Schauspielhalle on Christmas Day to celebrate the reunification of Berlin. The result was a classical number one and a UK pop chart hit.... |
| Front Row | ...Kirsty Lang with arts news, interviews and the verdict on English National Opera's new production of LEONARD BERNSTEIN's On the Town, perhaps best known from the 1949 film which starred Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra as sailors with a day's leave in NEW YORK City.... |
| George Gershwin (1898-1937) | ...LEONARD BERNSTEIN (conductor)... |
| Giovanni's House | ...... |
| Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) | ...LEONARD BERNSTEIN (conductor)... |
| Inside Story | ...Humphrey Burton explores the world of the orchestrator - the unsung hero of the Broadway musical. He talks to Sid Ramin, a childhood friend of LEONARD BERNSTEIN and one of the orchestrators of `West Side Story', and to William David Brohn, who has orchestrated hits such as `Miss Saigon' and the Royal National Theatre's `My Fair Lady', and who has just created a new `West Side Story' suite for violin virtuoso Joshua Bell.... |
| Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990) | |
| Leonard Bernstein | |
| Listen Up! | ...LEONARD BERNSTEIN: Serenade for Violin... |
| Making Tracks (summary) | ...LEONARD BERNSTEIN (conductor)... |
| Morley At The Musicals | ...Sheridan Morley presents a six-part series telling the story of the stage musical, focusing on the themes that have featured in the West End, Broadway and Hollywood hits of this past century. 1:`The Musical and the Presidency'. Including compositions by Gershwin, Irving Berlin and LEONARD BERNSTEIN ... |
| Music Feature | ...Chor Der Wiener Staatsoper, Wiener Philharmoniker, LEONARD BERNSTEIN (conductor)... |
| Music Machine | ...LEONARD BERNSTEIN composed his Mass in 1971, and it is by no means a conventional setting of the mass. It was commissioned by Jackie Kennedy in honour of her late husband, and is subtitled `A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers'. Tommy Pearson discovers why this work has always been so controversial and what the composer was trying to achieve.... |
| Music Matters | ...Ivan Hewett with the latest news and events in the musical world. This week, a look at LEONARD BERNSTEIN's `A White House Cantata', only now receiving its world premiere; singers from the Royal Opera House rehearsing Verdi's `Macbeth'; and why the French composer Eric Satie wrote the piece `Vexations', which lasts 14 hours.... |
| Musical Side Of The Family, The | ..., daughter of LEONARD BERNSTEIN, talks candidly about life with a father who could be simultaneously musical genius and monster, a secret homosexual and a happy family man.... |
| Opera On 3 | ...Against the backdrop of McCarthy's witch hunts in the 1950s, LEONARD BERNSTEIN and playwright Lillian Hellman found inspiration in Voltaire's satirical novella Candide, set in 18th century FRANCE, which seemed to parody their own turbulent times.... |
| Performance On 3 | ...Principal conductor of the Bournemouth SO Marin Alsop performs two works by her former teacher and mentor LEONARD BERNSTEIN and talks to Verity Sharp about his music and the an behind it.... |
| Private Passions | ...LEONARD BERNSTEIN (conductor)... |
| Proms Landmarks - Bernstein's Mahler | ...Mahler: Adagietto (Symphony No 5). Vienna Philharmonic/LEONARD BERNSTEIN ... |
| Record Breakers | ...Edward Seckerson plays excerpts from acclaimed discs. Chabrier: Joyeuse marche. 9.06 Poulenc: Novelette in C. 9.10 Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli (Kyrie). 9.16 Walton: Symphony No 1 (1st mvt). 9.31 Mendelssohn: Octet. 10.06 Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 2 (exc). 10.18 Strauss: Four Last Songs. 10.41 Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra. 11.00: Blind Tasting: Fiona Talkington invites Jeremy Sams and Deborah Bull to compare three performances of Ravel's `La valse' without knowing who the performers are. 11.30 Mahler: Symphony No 3 (finale). New York PO/LEONARD BERNSTEIN ... |
| Samuel Barber (1910-1981) | ...LEONARD BERNSTEIN (conductor).... |
| Shakespeare's Opera | ...In the first programme, Peter Conrad sets out the Shakespearean framework by introducing stage versions of `Romeo and Juliet' by, among others, Berlioz, Bellini, Gounod, Prokofiev and LEONARD BERNSTEIN ... |
| Soul Music | ...LEONARD BERNSTEIN's Somewhere, from West Side Story, is a song which holds a special significance for many.... |
| Sound Stories | ...Richard Baker remembers Charles Ives, who worked as an insurance salesman to fund his composing activities. Ives: Country Band March. Orchestra of New England/James Sinclair. The Unanswered Question. New York Philharmonic/LEONARD BERNSTEIN. The Alcotts (Piano Sonata No 2, Concord). Alexei Liubimov. Symphony No 2 (5th mvt). New York PO/LEONARD BERNSTEIN ... |
| Stage To Screen | ...Paul looks at MGM's film of LEONARD BERNSTEIN's first musical comedy in the company of Betty Garrett, who played opposite Frank Sinatra in the screen version, film historian Dana Polan and Jude Kelly, who directed the successful English National Opera production.... |
| Summer Selection | ...The actress Jenny Agutter shares her favourite music - including seventies folk from The Chieftains and Jethro Tull, a Vivaldi mandolin concerto, piano music by John Adams and cello music by Robert Schuman - and looks ahead to some of this week's Proms. Major works include: Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis London Philharmonic Orchestra, Conducted by Bernard Haitink Copland: Suite, Appalachian Spring New York Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN Clara Schumann: Konzertsatz in F minor Diane Ambache (piano and director) Ambache Chamber Orchestra Satie: Gymnopedies Pascal Roge (piano) Ravel: Ballet, Mother Goose Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Pierre Boulez Bach: Concerto for two violins in D minor Arthur Grumiaux, Hermann Krebbers (violins) Les Soloistes Romands Conducted by Arpad Gerecz.... |
| Talking To Gotham | ...The second in Miles Warde's series of interviews with leading figures from New York's cultural life. Today's subject is journalist George Plimpton, who talks about editing the Paris Review and persuading LEONARD BERNSTEIN to let him play triangle with the New York Philharmonic.... |
| Tchaikovsky Experience, The | ...LEONARD BERNSTEIN (conductor)... |
| Vintage Years | ...David Mellor explores the recorded legacy of great artists of the past in conversation with distinguished figures from the musical world of today. LEONARD BERNSTEIN was a man of extremes in his personal life as well as his often controversial performances. David Mellor discusses with Bernstein's biographer, Humphrey Burton, the relationship Bernstein had with London's musical scene as a composer and as a conductor. Music includes works by Ravel, Mahler, Stravinsky, Bernstein and Elgar.... |
| Voices | ...Iain Burnside talks to flame-haired songstress, Kim Criswell about the art of show songs - not just the glitzy world of showbiz but also the more serious trend towards performing the classic musicals as they would originally have been staged. With excerpts from Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun, Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate and LEONARD BERNSTEIN's Wonderful Town.... |
| When You're Feeling Like Expressing Your Affection | ...In the second of two programmes marking the thirtieth anniversary of WH Auden's death, Simon Russell Beale introduces a selection of Auden's poems from the time of his move to America. Benjamin Britten was also living in the States during the early war years, and today's programme features collaborations between the two, and settings of Auden's work by Henze and Bernstein. Britten: Cabaret songs: Calypso Della Jones (mezzo) Steuart Bedford (piano) Britten: Excerpt from Paul Bunyan, Hymn, Act 2 Kenneth Cranham (speaker) Susan Gritton (soprano) Timothy Robinson (tenor) Royal Opera Chorus Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Richard Hickox (conductor) Britten: Cabaret songs: Tell me the truth about love Jill Gomez (soprano) Martin Jones (piano) Henze: In Memoriam LKA 1950-52 Ian Bostridge (tenor) Julius Drake (piano) Bernstein: Symphony No. 2 (The Age of Anxiety) Excerpt: The Masque Philippe Entremont (piano) New York Philharmonic LEONARD BERNSTEIN (conductor) Britten: Hymn for St Cecilia Part III The Monteverdi Choir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor).... |
| Words And Music | ...William Hope and Laurel Lefkow read poetry and prose by Langston Hughes, E B White, Walt Whitman and Audre Lorde, accompanied by the music of Dvorak, LEONARD BERNSTEIN, Stephen Sondheim, John Adams, Philip Glass, Rodgers and Hart and Ned Rorem.... |