Bernstein's Orchestral Music by David Hurwitz

Bernstein's Orchestral Music by David Hurwitz

Leonard Bernstein's fame as a conductor and general cultural phenomenon has overshadowed his genius as a composer, despite the fact that at least some of his orchestral music has entered the standard repertoire and achieved a well-deserved measure of popularity. In fact, his achievement in the field of serious music is both larger and more significant than is usually acknowledged. It includes three symphonies, several noteworthy pieces for soloists and orchestra, ballets that are often performed in concert, suites from his various stage works, music for voices and orchestra, and a substantial numbers of overtures and shorter pieces. In all of this music, Bernstein's level of craftsmanship and inspiration remains consistently high. Even more remarkably, and despite his lifelong involvement as a conductor in presenting the works of other composers, his distinctive personality and style animate every bar. The direct emotional appeal of Bernstein's original work has always spoken most directly to music-loving audiences (as opposed to critics or academics), and so this book, in tandem with the accompanying CD, describes all of his significant concert music in a detailed but approachable way for listeners who want to explore his richly varied and colorful orchestral output - both the familiar and the unfamiliar - in greater depth.

David Hurwitz is the founder and executive editor of Classicstoday.com, the Internet's first classical music review magazine. He is a music critic, percussionist, and author. M.A. in hand Hurwitz holds degrees from Johns Hopkins University and Stanford University and has written books on Mozart, Mahler, Sibelius, Haydn, Dvorák, Brahms, Beethoven, Shostakovich, and R. Strauss. Strauss, CPE Bach, Bernstein, Handel, and Mendelssohn are some of the most well-known composers. His musicological essays have appeared in prestigious publications as Music & Letters, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, and Ad Parnassum. He was born in Wilmington, Delaware, and now splits his time between Brooklyn, New York, and Milford, Connecticut.

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ISBN 13	9781574671933
ISBN 10	1574671936
Title	Bernstein's Orchestral Music
Author	David Hurwitz
Series	Unlocking The Masters
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Hal Leonard Corporation
Year published	2011-05-01
Number of pages	136
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.