| Uniform title | Leonard Bernstein. English |
| Series |
Oswald Wolff books
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| Contents |
Music in America: American music -- Leonard Bernstein: youth, education, development and progress -- The conductor and interpreter of music -- From juvenile songs to Broadway -- Symphonic works -- Music for the theatre -- West Side Story -- Musical synthesis in the later compositions -- Leonard Bernstein as a musical pedagogue -- The infinite variety of Leonard Bernstein's personality. |
| Abstract |
A study of Leonard Bernstein's career as composer and conductor. Gradenwitz focuses on the man's professional life and achievements. Considering Bernstein's successes and failures over the years, Gradenwitz makes a realistic case for his subject's stature as both a creator and interpretor of music. The result is a generous portrait that is both more pertinent and revealing. |
| General note | "With personal contributions by Leonard Bernstein, Yehudi and Diana Menuhin, Christa Ludwig, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Isaac Stern, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Antal Dorati, Lukas Foss, Fredric R. Mann, Virgil Thomson, Hans Novak, Abba Eban, Stephen Wadsworth, and Burton Bernstein." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-298), filmography (page 299), discography (page 300-303), and index. |
| LCCN | 86026326 |
| ISBN | 0854965106 : |
