Word: bernsteins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...song is being written by Alan Jay Lerner '40, who wrote the lyrics for "My Fair Lady," and Leonard Bernstein '39. When requested to write the piece, Bernstein asked, "Do you want a chorale or a rouser?" and was told a rouser would be preferred...
...while he was a student at Cambridge University and a poker-playing Army buddy, now an advertising man in Huntington, W. Va. While Contributing Editor James Atwater tracked down other sources in suburban Connecticut, on the Columbia campus and in Greenwich Village, Researcher Audrey Blodgett and Associate Editor Lester Bernstein, who wrote the cover story, quizzed Van Doren himself. During the interview, Bernstein and Van Doren quickly discovered that they had one thing in common: both are former TIME correspondents in England, the former as a staffer in the London bureau and the latter a stringer at Cambridge...
...compositions to date have no common voice, they have several common denominators. There is almost always a strong, healthy pulse of percussion. There is drama and wit. There is an invitation, even in solemn moments, to the dance. And there is song. In his first symphony, Jeremiah, Bernstein offered, along with Biblical rumblings and stylized Semitic murmurs, some beautifully sad and soaring melodies for soprano. In his most recent serious work. Serenade for Violin Solo, String Orchestra and Percussion, the Bernstein song ? immensely more mature now ? has been transferred to the violin; it is a highly impressive piece...
...score for the movie On the Waterfront, some critics heard a new note in Bernstein's music, a curiously piercing purity that seemed to burst from a hot core of originality. Extravert Bernstein needs the outside inspiration of a theme, a script, a plot to be at his best ? which suggests that he is at his best in the musical theater. "I am the logical man," Bernstein himself has said, "to write the great American opera...
Time Is the Enemy. Lennie Bernstein's current agenda does not include the great American opera, but it is formidable nonetheless...