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Classical 101For more than a decade, Leonard Bernstein brought young people to classical music through his televised Young People's Concerts with the New York…
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Classical 101There's Leonard Bernstein, the composer of all that splashy, jazzy music for West Side Story. There’s Leonard Bernstein, the showy — some might say…
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Classical 101Leonard Bernstein and his wife, Chilean-born actress Felicia Montealegre, had three children: Jamie, Alexander and Nina. Montealegre died in 1978.…
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Classical 101If you go through life with a name like John Latouche, you'd better be talented.Luckily, John Treville Latouche (1914-1956) was immensely talented. He…
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Classical 101Candide — a show with music by Leonard Bernstein, book by Lillian Hellman, lyrics by Richard Wilbur with help from John Latouche and Dorothy Parker, and…
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Classical 101Here's a doozy: Bill Murray is going classical.The actor and comedian who never ceases to surprise has, according to the New York Times, teamed up with…
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Classical 101Classical music has a new rising star. According to a story published Tuesday in the Philadelphia Inquirer, the young assistant conductor of The…
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Classical 101Richard Nixon's second inauguration, on Jan. 19, 1973, featured a starry concert at the then-new Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The Philadelphia…
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Classical 101There are perhaps no two men more qualified to talk about their pursuit of music and literature than Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa. So when I discovered…
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Classical 101I was at my desk at The Entertainment Corporation, Ltd, on Broadway and 67th St. that morning, trying to wake up over strong coffee and the air filled…