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November 6, 2013
in Humanities

Nigel Simeone Introduces The Leonard Bernstein Letters

November 6, 2013
in Humanities

Leonard Bernstein was a charismatic and versatile musician – a brilliant conductor who attained international super-star status, 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. He was also an enthusiastic letter writer, and

January 11, 2006
in American History, History, Humanities

A Symphony of a Book

January 11, 2006
in American History, History, Humanities

“An enthralling new book,” says the Boston Globe in its recent review of Composers’ Voices From Ives to Ellington: An Oral History of American Music, by Vivian Perlis and Libby Van Cleve. The book and the two-CD set that accompanies it present a host of interviews with and about the