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Listening During Covid, Part 7: Celebrating the Diversity of American Music

New CD releases provide splendid performances of remarkable American music, from Barber and Bernstein to recently rediscovered Black composers Florence Price and William Grant Still.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: A Hand of Bridge, Aaron-Copland, Arthur Farwell, BMOP/sound, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Candide, Carrie Jacobs-Bonds, Florence Price, Irina Meachem, Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Kurt-Weill, Leonard Bernstein, London-Symphony-Orchestra, Lucas Meachem, Medea, Ralph Locke, Ricky Ian Gordon, Rubicon RCD, Samuel Barber, Shall We Gather, Stephen Foster, William Grant Still

Arts Reconsideration: The 1971 Project — Celebrating a Great Year in Music (June Entry)

Arts Fuse writers continue their countdown of great music celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and this month’s list includes Leonard Bernstein, Leon Russell, The Faces, Carla Bley, and Rod Stewart.

By: Allen Michie Filed Under: Featured, Music, Review Tagged: A Nod Is As Good As a Wink…To a Blind Horse, Allen Michie, Blake Maddux, Carla Bley, Clea Simon, Escalator Over the Hill, Every Picture Tells a Story, Jon Garelick, Jonathan Blumhofer, Leon Russell and the Shelter People, Leonard Bernstein, Long Player, Mass, Rod Stewart, Steve Provizer

Classical CD Reviews: “Aspects of America: The Pulitzer Edition,” Morton Gould “Symphonettes,” and Lindberg conducts Bernstein

Lovers of American music, don’t miss Aspects of America: The Pulitzer Edition ; Lindberg’s recording of Leonard Bernstein’s first two symphonies lacks a compelling command of the musician’s singular voice; the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra tackles four pieces by Morton Gould.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Arthur Fagin, Aspects of America: The Pulitzer Edition, Bis, Christian Lindberg, Leonard Bernstein, Morton Gould, Naxos, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Pentatone

Book Review: “Leonard Bernstein and the Language of Jazz” — Prominent from the Start

Perhaps the book’s most impressive accomplishment is to make a kind of systematic case for Leonard Bernstein’s larger compositional output.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Books, Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Leonard Bernstein, Leonard Bernstein and the Language of Jazz

Classical CD Reviews: Gerald Finzi’s Orchestral Music, Bernstein’s “Wonderful Town,” and Arvo Pärt’s “Works for Violin”

Violinist Viktoria Mullova supplies one of the year’s most programmatically-cohesive and thoughtfully-executed albums.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: -Arvo-Pärt, Chandos, Gerald Finzi, Leonard Bernstein, LSO Live, Onyx, orchestral music, Wonderful Town, Works for Violin

Book Review: “On the Road and Off the Record with Leonard Bernstein”

If Charlie Harmon’s story jumps around a bit and reads rather like a series of diary entries, it’s at the very least engaging and, for the most part, entertaining.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Books, Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Charlie Harmon, Leonard Bernstein, On the Road and Off the Record with Leonard Bernstein: My Years With the Exasperating Genius

Classical CD Reviews: Tesla Quartet plays Haydn, Ravel, and Stravinsky, Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Bernstein, Aspects of America

Aspects of America, from the Oregon Symphony and its music director Carlos Kalmar, is at once superbly played, astutely programmed, and aesthetically necessary.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Aspects of America, Carlos Kalman, Leonard Bernstein, Michael Tilson Thomas, Orchid Classics, Oregon Symphony, Pentatone Records, SFS Media, Tesla Quartet

Classical CD Review: A Superb Version of Leonard Bernstein’s “A Quiet Place”

Garth Edwin Sunderland’s new chamber adaptation of this opera’s score, is, to date, the Bernstein Centennial Year’s best and most important recording.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: A Quiet Place, Decca, Kent Nagano, Leonard Bernstein, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal

Concert Review: Boston Lyric Opera’s all-Bernstein Double-bill

The BLO’s production was one of the troupe’s true staging triumphs of late, transforming the Steriti Ice Rink into a 1950s-style nightclub.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Arias and Barcarolles, Boston-Lyric-Opera, Leonard Bernstein, Trouble in Tahiti

Classical CD Reviews: Peter Oundjian conducts John Adams and Leonard Bernstein conducts Mahler

Peter Oundjian and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra deliver a great album, smartly programmed and played to the hilt. Leonard Bernstein’s live Mahler was often electrifying; this performance, even with some cracked notes and hairy transitions, certainly is.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Chandos, Helicon, John Adams, Leonard Bernstein, MAHLER, Peter Oundjian

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