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Anniversaries (Bernstein)
The ''Anniversaries'' are a series of short compositions of easy difficulty for solo piano by American composer Leonard Bernstein. These compositions were written over the course of forty years as gifts for people Bernstein was acquainted or friends with on the occasion of their birthday. The published series comprises the following works: Bernstein composed many more ''anniversaries'' that eventually fell out of interest and were abandoned and never re-used in other compositions. Examples of ''anniversaries'' that were used in other compositions include No. 1 in Four Sabras, which was never included in the ''anniversaries'' series. ''Anniversaries for Orchestra'' In 2016, long-time Bernstein championeer Garth Edwin Sunderland wrote a suite entitled ''Anniversaries for Orchestra''. The collection of eleven ''anniversaries'' was taken from the four different sets and was arranged for a large orchestra. The piece had a total duration of 15 minutes and was scored for two flutes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein ( ; born Louis Bernstein; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was the first American-born conductor to receive international acclaim. Bernstein was "one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history" according to music critic Donal Henahan. List of awards and nominations received by Leonard Bernstein, Bernstein's honors and accolades include seven Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and 16 Grammy Awards (including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Lifetime Achievement Award) as well as an Academy Award for Best Original Score, Academy Award nomination. He received the Kennedy Center Honor in 1981. As a composer, Bernstein wrote in many genres, including symphonic and orchestral music, ballet, film and theatre music, choral works, opera, chamber music, and pieces for the pian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheim (; March22, 1930November26, 2021) was an American composer and lyricist. Regarded as one of the most important figures in 20th-century musical theater, he is credited with reinventing the American musical. He received List of awards and nominations received by Stephen Sondheim, numerous accolades, including eight Tony Awards, an Academy Award, eight Grammy Awards, an Olivier Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1982, and awarded the Kennedy Center Honor in 1993 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015. Sondheim was mentored at an early age by Oscar Hammerstein II and later frequently collaborated with Harold Prince and James Lapine. His Broadway theatre, Broadway musicals tackle themes that range beyond the genre's traditional subjects, while addressing darker elements of the human experience. His music and lyrics are tinged with complexity, sophistication, and ambivalence about various aspects of li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Compositions By Leonard Bernstein
This is a list of compositions by the American composer Leonard Bernstein. Ballet *'' Fancy Free'' (later provided material for "On the Town" and "West Side Story") (1944) *''Facsimile'', Choreographic Essay for Orchestra (1946) *''Dybbuk'' (1974) Opera *''Trouble in Tahiti'' (1951) *''Candide'' (1956, new libretto in 1973, operetta final revised version in 1989) *''A Quiet Place'' (1983) Musicals *'' On the Town'' (1944) *''Peter Pan'' (1950) *''Wonderful Town'' (1953) *''West Side Story'' (1957) *''A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green'' (1958, collaboration) *'' The Race to Urga'' (1969 - incomplete) *''"By Bernstein" (a Revue)'' (1975) *'' 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue'' (1976) *''The Madwoman of Central Park West'' (contributed to 1979) Incidental music and other theatre *'' The Birds'' (1938) *''The Peace'' (1940) * '' The Lark'' (1955) *''Salome'', for Chamber Orchestra and Solo Voices * '' The Firstborn'', for Voice and Percussion (1958) * '' MASS: A Theatre Piece for S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra
The São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra () is a Brazilian orchestra based in São Paulo. The principal concert venue of OSESP is the Sala São Paulo. History The orchestra, initially called the ''Orquestra Sinfônica Estadual'' (State Symphony Orchestra), gave its first concert on 18 July 1953 at the Municipal Theatre of São Paulo, conducted by João de Sousa Lima. The government of the State of São Paulo officially codified the establishment of the orchestra in a decree (Law No. 2733) dated 13 September 1954, signed by Governor Lucas Nogueira Garcez. Sousa Lima served as the orchestra's first principal conductor and artistic director. OSESP alternated between periods of success and great difficulty, including a hiatus in its activities. In 1964, the Italian conductor Bruno Roccela became principal conductor. In 1972, Eleazar de Carvalho succeeded Roccela, and served as principal conductor until his death in 1996. In 1978, the orchestra formally took on its current name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marin Alsop
Marin Alsop (; born October 16, 1956) is an American conductor. She is the first woman to win the Koussevitzky Prize for conducting and the first conductor to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She is music director laureate of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and chief conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Ravinia Festival, and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008 and to the American Philosophical Society in 2020. Early life and education Alsop was born in New York City to Ruth E. (Condell) and Keith Lamar Alsop, both professional string players, and grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She was educated at the Masters School and studied violin at the Juilliard School's Pre-College Division, graduating in 1972. She attended Yale University as a mathematics major, but transferred to Juilliard, where she earned a Bachelor of Music (1977) and a Master of Music ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naxos
Naxos (; , ) is a Greek island belonging to the Cyclades island group. It is the largest island in the group. It was an important centre during the Bronze Age Cycladic Culture and in the Ancient Greek Archaic Period. The island is famous as a source of emery, a rock rich in corundum, which until modern times was one of the best abrasives available. The largest town and capital of the island is Chora or Naxos City, with 8,897 inhabitants (2021 census). The main villages are Filoti, Apiranthos, Vivlos, Agios Arsenios, Koronos and Glynado. History Mythic Naxos According to Greek mythology, the young Zeus was raised in a cave on Mt. Zas ("''Zas''" meaning "''Zeus''"). Homer mentions " Dia"; literally the sacred island "of the Goddess". Károly Kerényi explains: One legend has it that in the Heroic Age before the Trojan War, Theseus abandoned Ariadne on this island after she helped him kill the Minotaur and escape from the Labyrinth. Dionysus (god of wine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Four Sabras
''Four Sabras'' is a short composition for solo piano by American composer Leonard Bernstein. ''Sabras'' (in Hebrew, צבר, "tsabár") refers to vignettes or portraits of different fictitious Israeli children. Background Best evidence suggest it was written throughout the early 1950s (the first piece, for example, was written in 1953). It was initially entitled ''Six Sabras'', which indicates Bernstein expected to write a total of six short pieces (a kibbutznik and a boy scout, both unnamed), but these two pieces were never eventually written. It was probably written at the request of Israeli Music Publications, possibly as a set of pieces for children. The cover of the original manuscript, where the list of pieces was specified, could be found among Bernstein's papers in Israel in 1948. The set would be eventually finished by 1956. The set of four pieces was never formally premiered, but it was recorded for the first time by Jack Gottlieb in May 1993. It was published posthumo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goddard Lieberson
Goddard Lieberson (April 5, 1911 – May 29, 1977) was the president of Columbia Records from 1956 to 1971, and again from 1973 to 1975. He became president of the Recording Industry Association of America in 1964. He was also a composer, and studied with George Frederick McKay, at the University of Washington, Seattle. He married Vera Zorina in 1946 and with her had 2 children. Biography Lieberson was born to a Jewish family on April 5, 1911, in Hanley in Staffordshire; his father was a manufacturer of rubber shoe heels who took his family to the United States when Lieberson was a child. He studied classical piano and composition at the Eastman School of Music in the 1930s and after graduating he wrote classical concert reviews under the pseudonym "Johann Sebastian".Dannen, Fredric, ''Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside The Music Business'', Vintage Books, 1991 (), p. 58 He was married to actress/dancer Vera Zorina from 1946 until his death in 1977. They had two sons: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Smit (American Composer)
Leo Smit (January 12, 1921 – December 12, 1999) was an American composer and pianist. Life Leo Smit was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a child his mother took him to the Soviet Union where he studied with the composer Dmitri Kabalevsky. He later studied piano in New York with Isabella Vengerova and José Iturbi and composition with Nicolas Nabokov. While working as George Balanchine's rehearsal pianist, he met Igor Stravinsky. He often gave thematic recitals – sometimes illustrated with his own slides – and performed a great deal of new music, especially works by Aaron Copland. His breakthrough as a composer came in 1957, when the Boston Symphony Orchestra played his First Symphony. In that year he moved to Los Angeles to teach at the University of California, Los Angeles. From 1962 he taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He wrote two operas: ''The Alchemy of Love'' (1969), in collaboration with the British astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle, with w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Kapell
Oscar William Kapell (September 20, 1922 – October 29, 1953) was an American classical pianist. ''The Washington Post'' described him as "America's first great pianist", while ''The New York Times'' described him as "one of the last century's great geniuses of the keyboard" and ''Times'' critic and pianist Michael Kimmelman, writing in ''The New York Review of Books'', remarked: "Was there any greater American pianist born during the last century than Kapell? Perhaps not." In 1953, at age 31, Kapell died in the crash of BCPA Flight 304 while returning from a concert tour in Australia. Biography William Kapell was born in New York City on September 20, 1922, and grew up in the eastside neighborhood of Yorkville, Manhattan, where his parents owned a Lexington Avenue bookstore. His father was of Spanish-Russian Jewish ancestry and his mother of Polish descent.Tim Page"William Kapell's Piano Benchmark" ''The Washington Post'', September 27, 1998 (at williamkapell.com). Dorothea A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Anniversaries
''Seven Anniversaries'' is a collection of short piano pieces by American composer Leonard Bernstein, written between 1942 and 1943. It is the first installment in a series of ''Anniversaries'', followed by ''Four Anniversaries'' (1948), ''Five Anniversaries'' (1949–51), and ''13 Anniversaries, Thirteen Anniversaries'' (1988). Composition The first set of ''Anniversaries'' was composed in Boston and New York City between 1942 and the fall of 1943, at about the time that he became famous as assistant director of the New York Philharmonic. It was first performed by the composer at the WNYC Radio in 1943. The first concert performance took place at the Boston Opera House, Massachusetts, on May 14, 1944. As in the case of all the other Anniversaries, ''Seven Anniversaries'' was dedicated to many different people who played an important role in Bernstein's life, even though, in this case, most of the dedicatees were musicians. Aaron Copland and Serge Koussevitzky were two of Berns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thirteen Anniversaries
''Thirteen Anniversaries'' is a composition for solo piano by Leonard Bernstein, published in 1988, commemorating 13 people who played an important role in his life. Background Bernstein wrote this set after similar collections, ''Seven Anniversaries'' (1943), ''Four Anniversaries'' (1948) and '' Five Anniversaries'' (1949–1951). Each movement celebrates a person. Some movements are dedicated to a person close to the one commemorated. The work was given its first performance by Alexander Frey in Berlin in 1998. Movements The titles, referencing the persons, are: # For Shirley Gabis Rhoades Perle # In Memoriam: William Kapell (an American pianist who died young in a plane crash). # For Stephen Sondheim # For Craig Urquhart # For Leo Smit (an American composer) # For My Daughter, Nina # In Memoriam: Helen Coates (one of Bernstein's most esteemed teachers) # In Memoriam: Goddard Lieberson (former executive of Columbia Records) # For Jessica Fleishmann # In Memoriam: Constanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
