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19 hours ago · The “Ode” is a setting of Schiller’s “An die Freude,” or “To Joy.” (The word “ode” was added for Beethoven’s symphony.) Schiller wrote it in the style of a “geselliges Lied ...
3 days ago · West Side Story is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. Inspired by William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, the story is set in the mid-1950s in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, then a multiracial, blue-collar neighborhood.
5 days ago · He is in charge of the collections of Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Ella Fitzgerald, Leslie Bricusse, Richard Rodgers, Jonathan Larson and many more. He’s also written a book about Stephen Sondheim.
5 days ago · EGOT, an acronym for the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Awards, is the designation given to people who have won all four of the major American performing art awards. [1] [2] Respectively, these awards honor outstanding achievements in television, audio recording, film, and Broadway theatre. [3]
4 days ago · Sir Howard Bernstein died on June 22 aged 71 (Image: Greater Manchester Business Week) It took three years of unremitting hard work, which Howard described as 'absolutely bloody hell'.
5 days ago · In 1975, Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990, see Fig. 4.23), who was then the conductor of the NY Philharmonic, moved with his family to the Dakota where he lived until he died at his apartment on 14 October 1990. Yoko Ono, after 50 years of living at the Dakota, Ono has moved out of her apartment to reside on the 600 acre farm in upstate New York that she and John Lennon purchased together in 1978.
2 days ago · Bernstein rose to become assistant chief executive in 1986 and deputy in 1990. Working with Labour council leaders – first Stringer, then Richard Leese – the team took a pragmatic approach to working with a Tory government, to the unease of the Labour hierarchy, and Bernstein engaged the then environment secretary Michael Heseltine to work with him on the Hulme regeneration project.
