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Young Concert Artists Triumphs at Alice Tully Hall

Jim Luce | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Kaufman Center, Alice Tully Hall, Juilliard School, International Tchaikovsky Competition, Eugenia Zukerman, Lincoln Center, Tokyo String Quartet, Leonard Bernstein, Chee-Yun, Orchestra of St. Luke?S, New York, Yca, Hahn-Bin, Narek Hakhnazaryan, Aleksandr Haskin, Emanuel Ax, Young Concert Artists, James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation, Jim Luce, Cuny, Gabriel Rivera, Culture News
Jim Luce

Last week Young Concert Artists held its annual Gala Concert at Alice Tully Hall with the Orchestra of St. Luke's, presenting the Lincoln Center debuts of three young soloists to a sold out house.

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When A Composer Loves Another Composer

Daron Hagen | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Creativity, Jacob Druckman, Orson Welles, Leonard Bernstein, John Houseman, Ned Rorem, The Cradle Will Rock, Ralph Berkowitz, Curtis Institute, Trouble in Tahiti, Arnold Schoenberg, Nadia Boulanger, No for an Answer, Yaddo, Eric Gordon, Lukas Foss, Samuel Barber, Gian Carlo Menotti, American Music History, Eva Goldbeck, Wpa, Marc Blitztein, Huffpost Obsessed, Obsessed, Culture News
Daron Hagen

Marc Blitzstein's musical DNA -- strict adherence to economy of means, a passion for combining words and music, the belief that music can promote social justice, an abhorrence of pretension -- are woven inextricably into the music I compose.

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Some People Tweet; Some People Peep

Freddie Gershon | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Serge Koussevitzk, Leonard Bernstein, CBS TV, Carnegie Hall, NewYork Philharmonic, Young People's Concerts, Emmy's, William S. Paley, Culture News
Freddie Gershon

On May 7, 2012, a brass plaque will be dedicated - In Honor Of Roger Englander whose visionary "peep hole" (created in 1960) opened the eyes of children and music lovers worldwide to the magic behind the music.

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Founding Fathers: Washington and Ives

Albert Imperato | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Baltimore Symphony, New York Philharmonic, George Washington, Gustav Mahler, Charles Ives, Jeremy Denk, Founding Fathers, Transcendentalists, Leonard Bernstein, Alan Gilbert, Hilary Hahn, Books News
Albert Imperato

In a strange twist of timing, I found myself reading Ron Chernow's new biography of George Washington at the same time that I just happened to be reading Jan Swafford's Charles Ives: A Life with Music.

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First Nighter: The Great Barbara Carroll Even Greater at the Algonquin's Oak Room

David Finkle | Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Tony Bennett, Caroline Leigh, Billie Holiday, Barbara Carroll, Joe Bushkin, Worcester, Bobby Short, Massachusetts, Leonard Bernstein, Leo Robin, Stephen Sondheim, The Oak Room at the Algonquin, Ralph Burns, Dorothy Parker, Jay Leonhart, The Downbeat, Billy Strayhorn, Jerome Kern, Lorenz Hart, Cy Coleman, Johann Sebastian Bach, Richard Rodgers, Woody Herman, Vernon Duke, George Gershwin, The Embers, Road Show, Entertainment News
David Finkle

In her mid-80s, Barbara Carroll's still doing what she does best and what few others even begin to do as well as. Nowadays she does it more regularly at the Oak Room, where management is wise enough to turn the paneled room over to her every Sunday brunch.

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A Sour Note at Carnegie Hall Few Heard, Coming From Above

John Farr | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Edgar Allan Poe, Bill Cunningham Documentary, John Turturro, IFC Center, Lost Bohemia, John Barrymore, Vincent Van Gogh, Jane Fonda, Spencer Tracy, Martha Graham, Bob Fosse, Leonard Bernstein, Best Movies by Farr, Isadora Duncan, Lionel Barrymore, Sanford Weill, Blazing Saddles, Marilyn Monroe, Enrico Caruso, Jason Robards, Carnegie Hall, Elia Kazan, Bill Cunningham, Isaac Stern, It's a Wonderful Life, George Balanchine, Josef Astor, Best Movies on DVD, Paul Newman, Cecil B. DeMille, Best Movies, Bill Cunningham New York, Norman Mailer, Paddy Chayefsky, Chelsea Handler, Marlon Brando, Robert Redford, Entertainment News
John Farr

The Carnegie Studios made it possible for artists to live as true bohemians: to enjoy the freedom of being deliciously different and quirky. I suppose it was simply too good to last.

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Have Baton, Will Travel: Classical Music Combine in New Orleans

Laurence Vittes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Classical Music Competitions, New Orleans Musicians, Leonard Bernstein, Classical Music Investing, Beethoven, Classical Music Conductors, Saint-Saens, Arts News
Laurence Vittes

The League of American Orchestra's biennial conductors' preview showcase is designed like the talent evaluation combine that pro football teams hold every year.

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The Bike Lane Battle of the Bulge

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Tea Party, Mayor Bloomberg, Battle of the Bulge, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Brooklyn, Janette Sadik-Khan, Leonard Bernstein, Tammany Hall, New York, Prospect Park West, Times Square, Marty Markowitz, Bike Lanes, Cbs2, Nycdot, New York News
Joel Epstein

Change, like this diet I am on, is hard. But if you want to make over the city for the better, you need to break up the pavement sometimes and envision the possibilities.

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Capturing Bernstein: Behind The Lens Of Steve J. Sherman

Allan M. Jalon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, Conducting, Leonard Bernstein, Music, Steve Sherman, Carnegie Hall, Arts News
Allan M. Jalon

Steve Sherman's photos offer Lenny, glowing celebrity, lunging into space behind his baton, accepting yet another award. Look again, though, and these pictures start to haunt you.

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What Is Wrong With the Arts?

Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yo-Yo Ma, George Balanchine, Martha Graham, Tennessee Williams, Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Stephen Sondheim, Alexei Ratmansky, Arthur Rubinstein, Merce Cunningham, Alvin Ailey, Arts Management, Vladimir Horowitz, Paul Taylor, Mark Morris, Arts, Richard Rodgers, Igor Stravinsky, Kennedy Center, Arts News
Michael Kaiser

The arts are in a parlous state, but contrary to popular belief, it isn't the fault of unions or the absence of arts education in our schools. The arts are in trouble because there is simply not enough excellent art being created.

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The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Inauguration of President John F. Kennedy

Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Grace Bumbry, John F. Kennedy, Yo-Yo Ma, Robert Frost, Concerts for Young People by Young People, Denyce Graves, Leonard Bernstein, American Ballet Theatre, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Pablo Casals, Kennedy Center, Arts News
Michael Kaiser

No president, apart from John F. Kennedy, cited accomplishment in the arts as one of the highest aspirations of a nation. We must return to being a country that truly relishes the arts at their highest level of accomplishment.

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Remembering Paul Bowles

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Larbi Layachi, Benjamin Britten, Aaron Copland, Paul Bowles, Mohammed Mrabet, Gypsy Rose Lee, Alice B. Toklas, William Burroughs, Mohamed Choukri, Leonard Bernstein, Salvador Dali. Bernardo Bertolucci, Jane Bowles, Warhol, Virgil Thomson, Debra Winger, Tennessee Williams. Lillian Hellman, W. H. Auden, Gertrude Stein, Ned Rorem, John Malkovich. Sara Driver, Ahmed Yacoubi, Books News
Regina Weinreich

In our age of instant fame, it is useful to think about an artist who was famous for not being in the limelight. In Bowles' time, the cult of personality was taking hold.

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This Is Your Brain on Crosswords

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Dean Olsher, Crossword Puzzle, Leonard Bernstein, Iris DeMent, Stephen Sondheim, Norman Mailer, Queen Elizabeth II, Company, Acrostic, Mark Beeman, West Side Story, Anterior Cingulate Cortex, Brain, Jon Stewart, Ken Burns, Christmas, Dan Feyer, New York Times, Follies, Cryptic, Entertainment News
Michael Sigman

"_____ comes but once a year. Var." Can you solve this devilish holiday-season crossword puzzle clue? Hint: The correct nine-letter answer starts with a "C" and ends with an "s" -- and it's not "Christmas".

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ARTS LUST: Leonard Bernstein Boycotts the Koch

Allan M. Jalon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lincoln Center, Koch Theater, Boycott, Leonard Bernstein, Jane Mayer, Arts News
Allan M. Jalon

Top: Poster for "A Quiet Place." Bottom: Facade of the David H. Koch Theater Photos by Allan M. Jalon       I heard his deepl...

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Revisiting West Side Story (VIDEOS)

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York City Center, Arthur Laurents, Debbie Allen, Officer Krupke, Leonard Bernstein, Follies, Tom Hatcher, Stephen Sondheim, West Side Story, Pookie Goes Grenading, West Bank Story, Louis Armstrong, Kyle Harris, Jets, Web Site Story, J.C. Lee, Eydie Gorme, A Boy Like That, Opera Pacific, David Saint, Jerome Robbins, Jerry Herman, Cher, Hello Dolly, Bruce Vilanch, Ali Ewoldt, I Feel Pretty, Sharks, Gangs, Joey McKneeley, Lori Werner, Mame, Arts News
George Heymont

Although I did not see the original production of West Side Story, I've been lucky to see several others.

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Candide Travels the World and Arrives at Hollywood Bowl

Donna Perlmutter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Frederica Von Stade, Anna Christy, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Bramwell Tovey, LA Culture, Hollywood Bowl, Leonard Bernstein, Candide, Alek Shrader, Los Angeles News
Donna Perlmutter

Victimized by bitter circumstance? Not on a bet. Bernstein's Candide showed up at the Hollywood Bowl in concert, courtesy of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Yes, it was almost the best of all possible worlds.

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Broadway Miracle Sighted on PBS -- South Pacific Permitted Full Use of Real Instruments

Melody Breyer-Grell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Masterpiece-Theatre, Techno, South Pacific, War in Vietnam, Pbs, Musical Theater, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Broadway, Leonard Bernstein, American Culture, Viet Nam, Alan Alda, West Side Story, Quys and Dolls, Opera, Avant-Garde, South Pacific Revival, Jazz, Sweeny Todd, Chinese Exports, French Indochina, Martians, James Michener, South-Pacific-Paul-Szot, Arts News
Melody Breyer-Grell

South Pacific, based on a collection of stories by James Michener, is a multifaceted piece. The plot is the thing in this play, although it is loaded with the requisite number of hit tunes.

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Dudamel Opens a New View at Hollywood Bowl

Donna Perlmutter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bizet, Carmen, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Hollywood Bowl, Ravel, Leonard Bernstein, Gustavo Dudamel, Falla, Isabel Leonard, Los Angeles News
Donna Perlmutter

Of course it would take a dunderhead to ignore the magnetism our L.A. Philharmonic music director exudes and not let the hordes in on his irresistible way with the players and the music.

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Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic Unite the Americas

Donna Perlmutter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hubbard Street Dance, Carlos Chavez, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, Ohad Naharin, Gustavo Dudamel, Peter Lieberson, Kelley O'Connor, Los Angeles News
Donna Perlmutter

He's back. After months of tending to his prior duties with other orchestras, Gustavo Dudamel has returned to the Los Angeles Philharmonic for a festival of American music, or, better said, music of the Americas.

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Gustav Mahler's Life-Changing Music

Albert Imperato | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Thomas Hampson, New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, Gustav Mahler, Carnegie Hall, New York News
Albert Imperato

You'll be hearing a lot about Mahler in the coming weeks and months. July 7, 2010 marks the 150th anniversary of his birth in Kaliste, a small town in Bohemia -- now in the Czech Republic.

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Leonard Bernstein: "Charismatic, Pompous -- and a Great Father'

Ginny Dougary | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Leonard Bernstein, Music, Composers, Entertainment News
Ginny Dougary

It's hard for a child, of whatever age, to see his or her parent through the eyes of the world and it becomes clear that Nina Bernstein has pretty conflicted views of her father.

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Vanity Fair's Coverage of the White House State Dinner: A Namedropping Guide

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deepak Chopra. David Geffen, Carlos Allen, Katharine Graham, Michael Ovitz, Jane Fonda, Michaele Salahi, Mark Rothko, Leonard Bernstein, Claudette Colbert, Brooke Astor, Anne Cox Chambers, Jeffrey Immelt, Indra Nooyi, Ted Turner, Jennifer Granholm, Bob Colacello, Mort Zuckerman, Julie Harris, Peter Jennings, David McCullough, Steven Spielberg, John Kerry, Bob Casey, Nancy Pelosi, Katie Couric, Edward Albee, William Paley, Jimmy Stewart, Richard Trumka, Richard Lugar, Saul Bellow, Colin Powell, Bobby Jindal, Robin Roberts, Diana Vreeland, Vanity Fair, George Balanchine, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, Washington DC, Barbra Streisand, Tennessee Williams, State Dinner, Brian Williams, Robert Lowell, Arthur Miller, David Rockefeller, Tareq Salahi, Oprah Winfrey, Charles Lindbergh, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Salahis, Judith Jamison, Sanjay Gupta, Media News
Danny Groner

The author was obviously trying to put the 2009 dinner in context with how previous years' affairs went. But he may have gotten a bit carried away in including quite so many characters, even as afterthoughts.

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Music Videos Can Save Broadway

James Sims | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green Day, The Phantom of the Opera, Musical Theater, Broadway, Theater, Leonard Bernstein, Music, New York City, Oscar Hammerstein, Mtv, West End, Music Video, Theatre, Marketing, Youtube, George Gershwin, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Business, Entertainment News
James Sims

As traditional marketing methods prove incapable of creating enough buzz to sell out a new Broadway musical, now is the time for producers and marketing executives to get creative. Whether it's big budget reality shows or viral music videos, there are options for any budget.

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Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano: Viewing "This Thing Called Love" From a Cabaret Stand-Point

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John DeVries, The Living Room on Second Avenue, Madison Square Garden, Stephen Sondheim, The Living Room on Stanton Street, Alfred Lunt, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Look at Me Now, Imelda Marcos, Lynn Fontanne, Milt Raskin, Barbara Fasano, Frank Sinatra, Richard Rodgers, Eric Comstock, Frank Loesser, Joe Bushkin, Noel Coward, Somewhere in the Night, Leonard Bernstein, Small World, Joey, In the Still of the Night, Tonight, I'll Be Easy to Find, Lorenz Hart, Jule Styne, Billy May, Bart Howard, Brief Encounter, It Never Entered My Mind, The Great American Songbook, The Oak Room at the Algonquin, Cole Porter, Cactus Tree, This Thing Called Love, Joni Mitchell, Oh, New York News
David Finkle

The husband-wife team of Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano are currently doing the living-room honors in Manhattan's Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel through the first week of March.

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Hang Out With Marsalis, Domingo, Gilbert and Others -- For Free

Jane Levere | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andy Warhol, Kevin Kline, Beverly Sills, Thomas Mellins, Martin Scorsese, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Patti LuPone, Lincoln Center, Audra McDonald, Placido Domingo, Leonard Bernstein, Maurice Sendak, Peter Martins, Alan Gilbert, Wynton Marsalis, New York News
Jane Levere

How's this for a holiday gift? Time with Placido Domingo, Alan Gilbert, Peter Martins, Wynton Marsalis and Audra McDonald, free of charge, at the NY Public Library for the Performing Arts.

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