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...undergraduate, Bernstein conducted a Harvard performance of Marc Blitzstein's "The Cradle Will Rock." He was musical editor of The Advocate, accompanist for the Glee Club, and a member of the Music Club. Bernstein lived in Eliot House...
...they mention in the same breath with Shakespeare and Goethe. One word about Lehrman: music comes just as easily as instant linguistic virtuosity to this Dunster House dynamo. Having studied piano seven years under Elie Siegmeister, Lehrman has for the past few years been the impassioned devote of Mare Blitzstein, the American composer and disciple of Brecht...
...Blitzstein, who taught at the Downtown School in New York during the thirties with none other than Elie Siegmeister and Hans Eisler as colleagues, inspired Lehrman to take a new look at Brecht's 1948 didactic play about the Paris Commune-or, more precisely, Blitzstein with an interpretational gloss thrown on his work by Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein in 1940 presented a production at Sanders of Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock. Bernstein adopted a "cantata form, from the piano." Lehrman, himself the director of a 1969 Cradle Will Rock production, explained in a 1970 essay about Blitzstein. This is "exactly...
TAHITI and Thrace and the world of all the People-all dreamlands? Perhaps, with Blitzstein, we will dare to hope that the last is something more...
Juliet Cunningham's creative direction refreshes Bernstein's "Trouble in Tahiti," performed at Sanders Theatre in 1939 and in 1952 at Brandeis, Stylistically indebted to Blitzstein, "Trouble in Tahiti" focuses on a bored suburban couple who seek entertainment from a movie about Tahiti...