Tag: Leonard Bernstein

  • Picture Perfect Moves to Saturday Nights

    Picture Perfect Moves to Saturday Nights

    “Picture Perfect” is moving.

    I received word last week that something else will be taking over my regular Friday time slot. Therefore, beginning next week, and going forward, the show will air on SATURDAY AT 6 PM EDT.

    Tune in for a program of music by New York composers in Hollywood, including Leonard Bernstein’s “On the Waterfront” (perfect for Labor Day weekend), Aaron Copland’s “The Red Pony” (after Steinbeck), Virgil Thomson’s “Louisiana Story” (the only film score ever to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize), and Elie Siegmeister’s “They Came to Cordura” (the source of “Picture Perfect”s signature music).

    The Bernstein and Copland are NOT the popular concert suites, but rather special, vintage recordings, struck from the films’ original elements.

    No use swearing like a longshoreman. Saturday night is now movie night. “Picture Perfect” moves to Saturday, starting next week at 6:00 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

  • Bernstein Armstrong Baker LSO Masterpiece

    Bernstein Armstrong Baker LSO Masterpiece

    One of Lenny’s “signature tunes,” with Sheila Armstrong, Janet Baker, and the LSO.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdc5n562zZg

  • Bernstein Honegger Summer Music Beethoven

    Bernstein Honegger Summer Music Beethoven

    I’m not a big fan of compilation CDs, but this one happens to contain a beautiful performance of Arthur Honegger’s “Pastorale d’été” (“Summer Pastorale”), perfect music for a summer’s afternoon, conducted by Leonard Bernstein, on his birthday. Listen for Honegger’s allusion to Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony.

    And, while we’re on the subject, Bernstein talks about and conducts the “Pastoral” Symphony, here:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPd4jc-c_qY

  • Leonard Bernstein Omnibus TV’s Golden Age

    Leonard Bernstein Omnibus TV’s Golden Age

    A wistful glimpse at a time when commercial television was still committed to “educational entertainment,” cultural enrichment, and the broader good. Leonard Bernstein on conducting, on “Omnibus.” The series won dozens of awards, including eight Emmys and two Peabodys.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeP_dsGoImw

  • Happy Birthday Lenny Bernstein Candide Lives

    Happy Birthday Lenny Bernstein Candide Lives

    Happy birthday, Lenny!

    Leonard Bernstein has seen the future… and it is YES.

    When Lenny and “Candide” were still young:

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