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The Austin Symphony Orchestra performed a "Film With Orchestra" event, bringing live music to the film 'West Side Story'.
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Tag Archives: Leonard Bernstein
Concert Review (NYC): Pianists Christina and Michelle Naughton in the Green-Wood Cemetery Catacombs (27 Aug 2018)
A program of American and French piano music performed by the twin Naughton sisters capped a magical night at Green-Wood Cemetery, a short walk from Leonard Bernstein's grave.
Read More »Concert Review: Neave Trio – ‘From America to the Moon’ (NYC Jan 5, 2018)
A highly pictorial survey of American music for piano trio by Leonard Bernstein, Russell Steinberg, and Robert Paterson
Read More »Music Review: Neave Trio – ‘American Moments’
Fine musicianship and rich, live sound make this new album an enlightening introduction to some seldom-heard but very worthwhile music by composers born in, or who made a strong mark in, the United States.
Read More »Theater Review (San Antonio): ‘West Side Story’ at the Woodlawn Theatre
San Antonio's Woodlawn Theatre offers a revival of a Broadway stalwart that's visually exciting and musically satisfying.
Read More »Theater Review (Broadway, NYC): ‘On the Town’ by Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and Adolph Green
It would be a shame for any lover of great entertainment who can get to New York City to miss a production that has everything Broadway musicals at their very best can be.
Read More »Theater Review (Staten Island, NY): ‘West Side Story’ by Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents at Harbor Lights Theater Company
With Broadway-class talent and Jerome Robbins's original choreography, this is a production to please newbies and old hands alike.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War’ by Carol J. Oja
Just in time for the new Broadway revival of 'On the Town' comes a new book showing how the show, with music by Leonard Bernstein, was as groundbreaking socially and politically as it was artistically.
Read More »Music Review: Sue Halloran and Ken Hitchcock – I Can Cook Too
Halloran and Hitchcock cook up a jazz feast.
Read More »Music DVD Review: Eyran Katsenelenbogen and Andrei Ivanovitch – Classical Meets Jazz: Pictures at an Exhibition, American Premiere in Jordan Hall
Jazz meets Mussorgsky with stunning results.
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