A diverse compendium of biographies of leading American women in the field of technology. American Women in Technology: An Encyclopedia tells the fascinating story of women's contributions to numerous fields, including aerospace, engineering, information technology, telecommunications, and medical technology. Entries focus on technological events that opened scientific areas to women, biographies of women who made important contributions to technology, and organizations that aided women to enter specialties ranging from astrophysics and aerospace to telecommunications and textiles. Illustrations

One of America's greatest conductors, Leonard Bernstein, is honored with this collection of superb performances. Pieces by Beethoven, Brahms, and Mozart are included in this boxed set that finds Bernstein before some of the best orchestras in the world, including, of course, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.

Leonard Bernstein both conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker and plays piano in this performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No.17 and Symphony No.39, recorded live at the Vienna Musikverein in 1981.

Documentary charting the way classical music has been presented on television since the 1930s, with contributions from amongst others: Glenn Gould, Herbert von Karajan, Leonard Bernstein, Anna Netrebko, Igor Stravinsky and Arturo Toscanini.

This songbook features seven piano/vocal selections from Leonard Bernstein's 1956 Broadway musical based on Voltaire's novelette. Includes: The Best of All Possible Worlds * Bon Voyage * I Am Easily Assimilated * It Must Be So * Make Our Garden Grow * My Love * O, Happy We.

Lorin Maazel leads the New York Philharmonic in their first performance in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in February 2008. The show features works by Wagner, Gershwin, Bizet, Dvorak and Bernstein.

The varied forms of Leonard Bernstein’s musical creativity have been recognized and enjoyed by millions. These lectures, Mr. Bernstein’s most recent venture in musical explication, will make fascinating reading as well. Virgil Thomson says of the lectures: “Nobody anywhere presents this material so warmly, so sincerely, so skillfully. As musical mind-openers they are first class; as pedagogy they are matchless.” Mr. Bernstein considers music ranging from Hindu ragas through Mozart and Ravel, to Copland, suggesting a worldwide, innate musical grammar. Folk music, pop songs, symphonies, modal, tonal, atonal, well-tempered and ill-tempered works all find a place in these discussions. Each, Mr. Bernstein suggests, has roots in a universal language central to all artistic creation. Using certain linguistic analogies, he explores the ways in which this language developed and can be understood as an aesthetic surface. Drawing on his insights as a master composer and conductor, Mr. Bernstein also explores what music means below the surface: the symbols and metaphors which exist in every musical piece, of whatever sort. And, finally, Mr. Bernstein analyzes twentieth century crises in the music of Schoenberg and Stravinsky, finding even here a transformation of all that has gone before, as part of the poetry of expression, through its roots in the earth of human experience. These talks, written and delivered when Leonard Bernstein was Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University, are the newest of the author’s literary achievements. In addition to a distinguished career as conductor, pianist, and composer, Mr. Bernstein is the recipient of many television Emmys for the scripts of his Young People’s Concerts, Omnibus programs, and others, and is the author of The Infinite Variety of Music and The Joy of Music, for which he received the Christopher Award.

An extraordinary selection of revealing letters to and from one of the titans of 20th-century music Leonard Bernstein was a charismatic and versatile musician-a brilliant conductor who attained international super-star status, and a gifted composer of Broadway musicals (West Side Story), symphonies (Age of Anxiety), choral works (Chichester Psalms), film scores (On the Waterfront), and much more. Bernstein was also an enthusiastic letter writer, and this book is the first to present a wide-ranging selection of his correspondence. The letters have been selected for the insights they offer into the passions of his life-musical and personal-and the extravagant scope of his musical and extra-musical activities. Bernstein's letters tell much about this complex man, his collaborators, his mentors, and others close to him. His galaxy of correspondents encompassed, among others, Aaron Copland,Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Robbins, Thornton Wilder, Boris Pasternak, Bette Davis, Adolph Green, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and family members including his wife Felicia and his sister Shirley. The majority of these letters have never been published before. They have been carefully chosen to demonstrate the breadth of Bernstein's musical interests, his constant struggle to find the time to compose, his turbulent and complex sexuality, his political activities, and his endless capacity for hard work. Beyond all this, these writings provide a glimpse of the man behind the legends: his humanity, warmth, volatility, intellectual brilliance, wonderful eye for descriptive detail, and humor.

As they engage with one of the 20th century's most provocative musical personalities, studies of the multifaceted Leonard Bernstein will always proffer new insights into the human condition. But this is the first book on Bernstein to be written by a composer, and the first by a colleague and friend who worked intimately with the maestro for more than three decades. Jack Gottlieb has been described as Bernstein's amanuensis and as the preeminent Bernstein scholar. This memoir presents fresh, sensitive, and revealing information about the everyday life of the maestro in Part One, featuring reminiscences peppered with anecdotes, humor, and stories by others. Part Two includes Gottlieb's commentaries and analyses of Bernstein's works, which have appeared in program notes for concerts by many of the world's orchestras, as jacket {or 'liner'?} notes for recordings, and as articles in journals and elsewhere, beginning with the New York Philharmonic tribute 'A Valentine for Leonard Bernstein' on February 13, 1961. Preceded by updated remarks, this collection allows those seeking firsthand information on Bernstein's compositions to find all of Gottlieb's valuable scholarship in one place.

Nine songs from the adored score by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim in our world-famous notation: America * Cool * I Feel Pretty * I Have a Love * Maria * One Hand, One Heart * Promenade from the Dance at the Gym * Somewhere * Tonight.

Live performance by Azerbaijan soprano Dinara Alieva in Moscow. She performs classical works by, among others, Charpentier, Massenet and Puccini, as well as more modern pieces such as 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' and ' I Could Have Danced All Night'. Constantine Orbelian conducts the Russian National Orchestra and the Grand Choir 'Masters of Choral Singing'.

A seven-volume set featuring anniversary concerts and live performances by, amongst others, Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Mehta, Daniel Barenboim, Itzhak Perlman and Arthur B. Rubenstein. Also included is director Janos Darvas's 2011 documentary profile of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra - 'Coming Home'.

Lorin Maazel leads the New York Philharmonic in their first performance in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in February 2008. The show features works by Wagner, Gershwin, Bizet, Dvorak and Bernstein.

Leonard Bernstein leads the Wiener Philharmoniker in performances of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto and Symphony No.25, recorded live in Vienna in 1987 and 1988.

Leonard Bernstein conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in four separate performances of Sibelius's Symphonies 1, 2, 5 and 7, recorded live at the Wiener Musikvereinssaal between 1986-1990.

Sir Simon Rattle conducts two El Sistema concerts at the 2013 Salzburg Festival. The National Children's Orchestra of Venezuela perform Mahler's Symphony No. 1 in D Major, among other works, and the White Hands Choir of Venezuela perform Latin-American folk songs and music by Piazzolla, Mozart and Rutter.

A live recording of Leonard Bernstein conducting the English Bach Festival Choir and Orchestra in performances of Bach's Magnificat and Stravinsky's Mass at Saint Augustine's Church, London in 1977. Soloists include Anny Mory, Patricia Parker, Rodney Hardesty and John Mitchinson.

Leonard Bernstein leads the Wiener Philharmoniker and Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks in rare recordings of Beethoven's String Quartet Opus 135 and Haydn's 'Missa in Tempore Belli'. The featured performers include Judith Blegen, Brigitte Fassbaender, Claes Hakon Ahnsjo and Hans Sotin.

(Amadeus). With style, wit, and expertise, Leonard Bernstein shares his love and appreciation for music in all its varied forms in The Infinite Variety of Music, illuminating the deep pleasure and sometimes subtle beauty it offers. He begins with an "imaginary conversation" with George Washington entitled "The Muzak Muse," in which he argues the values of actively listening to music by learning how to read notes, as opposed to simply hearing music in a concert hall. The book also features the reproduction of five television scripts from Bernstein on the influence of jazz, the timeless appeal of Mozart, musical romanticism, and the complexities of rhythmic innovation. Also included are Bernstein's analyses of symphonies by Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, and Brahms, a rare reproduction of a 1957 lecture on the nature of composing, and a report on the musical scene written for the New York Times after his sabbatical leave from directorship of the New York Philharmonic during the 1964-65 season.