Leonard Bernstein is a household name. Most know him for his
classic musical reworking of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet as
Broadway's West Side Story. But Bernstein accomplished so much more
as a composer, and his body of work is both broad and varied. He
composed ballets (Fancy Free, Facsimile, Dybbuk), operas (Trouble
in Tahiti, Candide, A Quiet Place), musicals (On the Town,
Wonderful Town), film scores (On the Waterfront), symphonies,
choral works, chamber music pieces, art songs, and piano works. In
Experiencing Leonard Bernstein: A Listener's Companion, Kenneth
LaFave guides readers past Bernstein's famously tortured personal
problems and into the clarity and balance of his Serenade after
Plato's Symposium for Violin and Orchestra, the intense drama of
his music for On the Waterfront, the existential cosmography of his
three symphonies, and his vibrant works for the musical stage.
Perhaps the most famous American classical musician born in the
twentieth century, Bernstein divided his time between composing,
conducting, writing, and teaching, a busy schedule-especially his
conducting of major orchestras-that set his work as composer at a
disadvantage. Often generated in short spurts, his work carries an
urgency-and even an element of improvisational genius-that he
flavored with his eclectic embrace of jazz, folk song, Jewish
cantorial music, and innovations in contemporary classical theory.
The result is a body of work that is beguilingly melodic,
incomparably rhythmic, and irrepressibly individual. Experiencing
Leonard Bernstein: A Listener's Companion is the ideal work for any
reader seeking to learn how to listen across the spectrum of
Bernstein's musical output.
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