Experiencing Leonard Bernstein: A Listener's Companion

by Kenneth Lafave

Book Overview

Leonard Bernstein is a household name. Most know him for his classic musical reworking of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet as Broadway's West Side Story. But Bernstein accomplished so much more as a composer, and his body of work is both broad and varied. He composed ballets (Fancy Free, Facsimile, Dybbuk), operas (Trouble in Tahiti, Candide, A Quiet Place), musicals (On the Town, Wonderful Town), film scores (On the Waterfront), symphonies, choral...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442235438
• ISBN13: 9781442235434
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 10.3"