Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War (Broadway Legacies) - Hardcover

Oja, Carol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199862095 ISBN 13: 9780199862092

Publisher: OUP USA, 2014

Synopsis

When the unknown composer Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) arrived in New York, he teamed up with three other brilliant twentysomethings: Jerome Robbins, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. By the end of the 1940s, they were world famous. This biography charts Bernstein's successes in 1944 with the Broadway musical On the Town and the ballet Fancy Free, and the attempts of these four visionary artists to break down the barriers between classical and popular music and promote a liberal political worldview.

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Review:

[a] broad and sonorous view ... [this book] is to Oja's credit. (Russell Davies, Times Literary Supplement)

I mourn the loss of George Abbott and I celebrate Carol J. Oja's intriguing and absorbing book. (Bob Maram, The Writer's Drawer)

About the Author:

Carol J. Oja is the William Powell Mason Professor of Music at Harvard University. She is author of Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s (OUP, 2000), which won the Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music and an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. Her other books include Copland and his World (co-edited with Judith Tick, 2005) and Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds (2004),

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0199862095
• ISBN 13: 9780199862092
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416