Leonard Bernstein
Record details
- ISBN: 0571337937
- ISBN: 9780571337934
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Physical Description:
print
xiv, 594 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm - Edition: New edition.
- Publisher: London : Faber & Faber, 2017.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published: London: Faber, 1994. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 542-578) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | New introduction / by Humphrey Burton -- Prologue: The funeral -- Part one--The education of an American musician : 1918-1943. Beginnings ; Family life ; The provincial boy grows up : 1932-1935 ; Harvard ; Broader horizons ; New York, New York! ; The Curtis Institute : 1939-1940 ; Tanglewood : 1940 ; Finishing touches ; Tanglewood revisited : June 1941-August 1942 ; The New York bohemian ; Overnight sensation -- Part two--Rise to prominence : 1943-1951. The Jeremiah Symphony and Fancy Free ; On the Town ; The first American conductor gets his first American orchestra ; Finding his way ; The conductor as messiah ; The man from another world ; History-making days ; The end of the first conducting career ; Rites of passage -- Part three--Something's coming : the composing years : 1952-1957. Return to show business ; Diversionary tactics ; From La Scala to Broadway ; Candide ; West Side Story -- Part four--The New York Philharmonic era : 1957-1969. The heir apparent takes command ; Music director at the New York Philharmonic ; To Russia with love ; Last years at Carnegie Hall ; A kaddish for a president ; The conquest of Vienna ; End of an era -- Part five--Coming apart : 1969-1978. Radical chic ; Professor Bernstein ; Crises and catastrophe -- Part six--Anything but twilight : 1978-1990. Toward A Quiet Place ; Royal progress ; The living legend ; Final days : August-October 1990. |
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Subject: | Bernstein, Leonard 1918-1990 Composers United States Biography Conductors (Music) United States Biography |
Genre: | Biographies. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | ML 410 .B566 B8 2017 | 30775305535917 | General Collection | Available | - |