Word: bernstein
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...Bernstein put on Blitzstein’s musical "The Cradle Will Rock," a pro-union, pro-communist show that caused a sensation when it premiered in New York two years earlier...
...Bernstein even found time to write a new arrangement of Gershwin’s legendary "Rhapsody in Blue." The piece will have its world premiere at the festival...
During one seminar on 16th-century counterpoint, a professor chastised Bernstein for playing a nontraditional and dissonant composition. According to Shapero, who was also in the class, "Lenny took his fist and went BANG, like that," playing the piece despite the protestations...
Defying a powerful musical trend among musicians of his generation, Bernstein doggedly stuck to the doctrine of tonality—which centers a piece of music around major and minor chords based on a single key—as opposed to the 12-tone scale, which was being popularized by composer Arnold Schoenberg...
...very controversial at the time, because serious musicians were not supposed to write tonal music," says his daughter, Jamie A. M. Bernstein...