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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...

Author: By Alexander B. Fabry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Leonard Bernstein | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Alexander B. Fabry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Leonard Bernstein | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Alexander B. Fabry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Leonard Bernstein | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Alexander B. Fabry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Leonard Bernstein | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

...very controversial at the time, because serious musicians were not supposed to write tonal music," says his daughter, Jamie A. M. Bernstein...

Author: By Alexander B. Fabry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Leonard Bernstein | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

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