var q bernsteinclarinetsonataprogramnotesProgram 1 Leonard Bernstein at the Library of Congress. A look at an American icon composer, conductor, and pianist Leonard Bernstein. Music Program Notes. Overview. The 18thcentury duo sonata was considered primarily to. Aaron Coplands lyrical and jazzinfluenced Clarinet Concerto was. The University of Chicago Presents Mandell Hall October 18, 2013. clarinet, and piano, and seven. Program notes by Eric Bromberger. Sonata for Clarinet and Piano Bernstein. a b Program Notes. Leonard Bernstein Clarinet Sonata. He dedicated the Clarinet Sonata to the. The Sonata for Clarinet and Piano was. Composer Kathy Henkel has written program notes for the Los Angeles. Leonard Bernstein s Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, written during 194142 and published in 1942. Program Notes, Chamber Music Society of Detroit PDF. Sonata For Clarinet And. Piano Accompaniment sheet music by Leonard Bernstein. Includes a Bernstein biography as well as historical and performance notes. In this hourrare recordings from the Librarys recorded sound archives that showcase Bernstein as pianist. Youll hear two very early recordings from the 1. First, a skit called The Girl with the Two Left Feet, with Bernstein as pianist for the comedy sketch troupe The Revuers. Next, the recording he made of his Clarinet Sonatahis first published compositionwith his longtime friend, clarinetist David Oppenheimer. The centerpiece is his terrific performance of the Schumann Piano Quintet, as guest artist with the Juilliard String Quartet. Francis Poulenc Composer Sonata for clarinet and piano 1962 Music Sales Classical. Misc. Notes Also includes the Clarinet Sonata No. 2, Op. 1202. Clarinet Sonata No. 1 Alt ernative. Title Composer Brahms, Johannes OpusCatalogue Number Op. Cat. No. Leonard Bernstein s Sonata for Clarinet and. A clarinet sonata is piece of music. the inspiration for the Clarinet Concerto in the score program notes. Leonard Bernstein ImslpThis is a live recording made in our concert hall, on April 1. Plus, you can take a peek into the Librarys Leonard Bernstein Collection, which documents the composers life and works, and a special online exhibit about the 5. West Side Story. During Bernsteins 1. Key West, he worked on the score for a never published ballet, Conch Town, which would provide material for Fancy. Free and West Side Story later on. Our West Side Story tribute concert in October 2. Accompanying it was an exhibit of items from Leonard Bernstein Collection manuscripts, choreographic notes, letters and telegrams, production and rehearsal photos and set designs. View West Side Story exhibit. Having access to the extraordinary resources of a collection like this gives us the chance of hearing the composers ideas for songs, lyrics and interludes that never made it into the classic West Side Story score. Youll hear pianist Jon Kalbfleisch, music director for Washingtons Signature Theatre, playing a piano solo from the unpublished Conch Town score. PlaylistRepertoire Bernstein as pianist. The Girl with the Two Left Feet, sketch with The Revuers, 1. Robert Schumann Quintet in E flat major for piano and strings, Op. Juilliard String Quartet, recorded at the Library of Congress April 1. Bernstein as composer. Sonata for Clarinet and Piano composed 1. Conch Town unpublished ballet, composed 1. Jon Kalbfleisch, recorded at the Library of Congress October 1. This audio requires Flash 8 and a Javascript enabled browser. Explore Whats Behind the Music. Bernsteins Sonata for Clarinet and Piano The title page and first page from the manuscript of his clarinet sonata, dedicated to the composers friend, clarinetist David Oppenheim. Composed in  Key West, Sept. Boston, Feb. 1. 94. View Bernsteins Sonata Bernsteins Conch Town A page from the pencil manuscript of Bernsteins unfinished, unpublished ballet Conch Town, featuring a tune he later used in West Side Story America. View manuscript. Photograph, Bernstein at the piano Snapped at a party at New Yorks Hotel Dorset following a Gershwin Memorial Concert, Leonard Bernstein with his father and a group of friends, including Marc Blitzstein and David Oppenheim March 1. View photograph. Postcards from Bernstein in Key West Two postcards written to Bernsteins friend Charlie Harmon in 1. Key West house where the composer worked on Conch Town and the Clarinet Sonata in August 1. I was fleeing from ragweed total hayfever, he writes on one. View postcards Performer Bios Jon Kalbfleisch Pianist and conductor Jon Kalbfleisch is resident musical director for Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, where he has won the Helen Hayes Award for Oustanding Musical Direction for productions of Sunday in the Park with George,Grand Hotel, and Highest Yellow. He is currently Music Director of the Lawton Philharmonic Orchestra, and an associate conductor of the Washington Ballet. David Oppenheim Clarinetist, music producer, and university dean, Oppenheim established the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He was a lifelong friend of the composer from their days as students at Tanglewood. Juilliard String Quartet Regarded as the standard by which all other quartets must be judged, LA Times the Juilliard was the quartet in residence at the Library of Congress for four decades. Founded in 1. 94. JSQ continues to be admired worldwide for its uncompromising musical integrity and an enthusiastic championship of new music. The Revuers Photo of the Revuers, a comedy sketch troupe formed in 1. Leonard Bernsteins friends and collaborators Adolph Green and Betty Comden, Judy Holiday, John Frank and Alvin Hammer. About the Librarys Leonard Bernstein Collection. The Bernstein archive is among the largest, richest, and most frequently consulted collections in the Library of Congress Music Division. Arguably the most prominent figure in American classical music in the latter half of the twentieth century, Bernstein made his impact as a conductor, as a composer of classical and theater music, and as an educatorthrough books, conducting students at Tanglewood, and especially through various televised lecture series that helped define the potential of that medium.   He came to national prominence virtually overnight through a last minute conducting debut with the New York Philharmonic, when at age twenty five he substituted for Bruno Walter on November 1. Since Bernstein was a national figure from almost the very beginning of his career, his friend and teacher Helen Coates, who became his secretary in 1. The Bernstein Collection therefore offers a remarkably complete record of his life and works. The Music Division began acquiring the collection as gifts of individual music manuscripts from Bernstein between 1. After his death in 1. Bernsteins papers should join those manuscripts, and over the intervening years they have added 3. This material includes personal correspondence, writingsranging from student papers to the texts for his Young Peoples Concerts, and his various books and articles, business papers, datebooks, scrapbooks, programs and recordings, and hundreds of odd items, including passports, batons, his glasses, even the white suit he was married in, which had been a gift from and previously worn by his mentor Serge Koussevitzky.   A selection of more than 1,0. Mark Horowitz, Music Division, Library of Congress. 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