LEONARD BERNSTEIN THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS
UNITED KINGDOM: GRAMOPHONE, 2008. Softcover. F. Item #110323
IN B/W & COLOR. - IN PERFORMANCE. FROM CRITICS OF THE TIME TO FELLOW MUSICIANS; THEIR IMPRESSIONS OF WHAT IT WAS ACTUALLY LIKE TO BE THERE. - TALES OF THE SMALL SCREEN, FAMOUSLY, BERNSTEIN USED THE INFLUENCE OF TELEVISION TO EDUCATE. AN ENTIRE GENERATION SAT ENTHRALLED, WRITES TIM PAGE. - MUSICAL NYC, THEN...AND NOW. FROM SARDI'S TO THE RUSSIAN TEA ROOM; THE HAUNTS THAT BERNSTEIN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES ONCE FREQUENTED AND THE PLACES THEIR SUCCESSORS VISIT TODAY. - THE ISRAEL YEARS. THE ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC'S FORMER PRINCIPAL HORN PLAYER, YAAKOV MISHORI, ON A CONDUCTOR AND A FRIEND. - THE EUROPE YEARS. DOCUMENTARY MAKER AND BERNSTEIN BIOGRAPHER HUMPHREY BURTON RECALLS THE CONDUCTOR'S TIME AS A DRIVING MUSICAL FORCE IN LONDON AND VIENNA. - MUSICAL CONNECTIONS . HOW BERNSTEIN WAS PART OF A LONG MUSICAL LINE--FROM SERGEI KOUSSEVITZKY AND AARON COPLAND, WHO INFLUENCED HIM. TO THOSE WHOSE CAREERS HE IN TURN HELPED TO SHAPE, SUCH AS ANDRE WATTS AND MARIN ALSOP. - AFTER BERNSTEIN, SOME OF TODAY'S GREAT MUSICIANS WHO ARE, IN THEIR VARIED AND DIFFERENT WAYS, KEEPING THE TORCH AFLAME. - THE BERNSTEIN PLAYLIST. GRAMOPHONE SELECTS THE MUST-HAVE RECORDINGS FOR ANY SELF-RESPECTING BERNSTEIN FAN'S COLLECTION. - ETC...ETC... ; 4to ; 114 pages.
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