The Leonard Bernstein Letters (103 page)

Bibliography

Archives

The vast majority of the letters published in this book are in the Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Thanks to the work of Charlie Harmon and others in the Leonard Bernstein Office, the Bernstein Collection also includes many photocopies of letters from Bernstein as well as those written to him.

Other collections in the Library of Congress containing letters from Bernstein include those of Aaron Copland, David Diamond, Hans Heinsheimer, Serge Koussevitzky, and Helen Coates, as well as the papers of other members of the Bernstein family, notably Leonard's sister Shirley, his brother Burton, and his wife Felicia.

Bernstein's letters to Jerome Robbins about
Fancy Free
are in the Robbins Papers at the New York Public Library of the Performing Arts, and other letters from Bernstein are drawn from the institutions and private individuals listed below:

Books and Articles

Adams, John (2008):
Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life
. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

Barnouw, Erik (1990):
Tube of Plenty: The Evolution of American Television
. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bernstein, Burton (1982):
Family Matters: Sam, Jennie, and the Kids
. New York: Summit Books.

Bernstein, Leonard (1957): “Excerpts from a West Side Log,”
Playbill
, 30 September, pp. 47–8; repr. in Bernstein 1982, pp. 144–7.

—— (1959):
The Joy of Music
. New York: Simon and Schuster.

—— (1966):
The Infinite Variety of Music
. New York: Simon and Schuster.

—— (1982):
Findings
. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Bernstein Live at the New York Philharmonic
(2000): Disc notes for NYP 2003, New York: Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York.

Burlingame, Jon (2003): “Leonard Bernstein and
On the Waterfront
: Tragic Nobility, a Lyrical Song, and Music of Violence,” in Joanne E. Rapf, ed.:
On the Waterfront
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 124–47.

Burton, Humphrey (1994):
Leonard Bernstein
. London: Faber and Faber.

Chapin, Ted (2005):
Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies
. New York: Applause Books.

Chaplin, Saul (1994):
The Golden Age of Movie Musicals and Me
. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.

Cooke, Mervyn, ed. (2010):
The Hollywood Film Music Reader
. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Copland, Aaron, and Vivian Perlis (1984):
Copland: 1900 Through 1942
. London: Faber and Faber.

—— (1992):
Copland Since 1943
. London: Marion Boyars.

Cott, Jonathan (2013):
Dinner with Lenny: The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein
. New York: Oxford University Press.

Crist, Elizabeth B., and Wayne Shirley, ed. (2006):
The Selected Correspondence of Aaron Copland
. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

Dougary, Ginny (2010): “Leonard Bernstein: Charismatic, Pompous – and a Great Father,”
The Times
(London), 13 March. Online version at
www.ginnydougary.co.uk
, accessed 19 March 2013.

Dunning, John (1998):
On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-time Radio
. New York: Oxford University Press.

Gordon, Eric A. (1989):
Mark the Music: The Life and Work of Marc Blitzstein
. New York: St Martin's Press.

Gottlieb, Jack, ed. (1998):
Leonard Bernstein
[…]
A Complete Catalog of His Works. Volume 1: Life, Musical Compositions & Writings
. [New York:] Leonard Bernstein Music Publishing Company.

Hoopes, Roy (1982):
Cain
. New York: Holt, Reinhart, and Winston.

Houseman, John (1972):
Run-Through: A Memoir
. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Hussey, Walter (1985):
Patron of Art
. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.

Joseph, Charles M. (2001):
Stravinsky Inside Out
. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

Jowett, Deborah (2004):
Jerome Robbins: His Life, his Theater, his Dance
. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Kimberling, Victoria J. (1987):
David Diamond: A Bio-Bibliography
. Lanhau, MD: Scarecrow Press.

Laurents, Arthur (2000):
Original Story By: A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood
. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Mangan, Timothy, and Irene Herrmann:
Paul Bowles on Music
. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Massey, Drew (2009): “Leonard Bernstein and the Harvard Student Union: In Search of Political Origins,”
Journal of the Society for American Music
, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 67–84.

Milhaud, Darius (1995):
My Happy Life
(trans. Donald Evans, George Hall, and Christopher Palmer). London: Marion Boyars.

Moorehead, Caroline, ed. (2006):
The Letters of Martha Gellhorn
. London: Chatto and Windus.

Nixon, Marni (2006):
I Could Have Sung All Night: My Story
. New York: Billboard Books.

Oja, Carol J., and Kay Kaufman Shelemay (2009): “Leonard Bernstein's Jewish Boston: Cross-Disciplinary Research in the Classroom,”
Journal of the Society of American Music
, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 3–33.

Pollack, Howard (1999):
Aaron Copland: The Life of an Uncommon Man
. London: Faber and Faber.

Sarna, Jonathan D. (2009): “Leonard Bernstein and the Boston Jewish Community of His Youth: The Influence of Solomon Braslavsky, Herman Rubenovitz, and Congregation Mishkan Tefila,”
Journal of the Society of American Music
, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 35–46.

Seldes, Barry (2009):
Leonard Bernstein: The Political Life of an American Musician
. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press.

Simeone, Nigel (2009):
Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story
. Farnham: Ashgate.

Swayne, Steve (2011):
Orpheus in Manhattan: William Schuman and the Shaping of American Music
. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

Vaill, Amanda (2007):
Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins
. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.

Zadan, Craig (1974):
Sondheim & Co.
New York: Macmillan.

Websites (selective list)

Leonard Bernstein Collection, Library of Congress:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/bernstein

Official Leonard Bernstein website:
www.leonardbernstein.com

Leonard Bernstein's Boston Years: Team Research in a Harvard Classroom [includes interviews with Lukas Foss, Raphael Hillyer, Sid Ramin, and Harold Shapero]:
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=bernstein

FBI Records: The Vault (online archive):
http://vault.fbi.gov

The Harvard Crimson:
www.thecrimson.com

Internet Broadway database:
www.ibdb.com

New York Philharmonic Digital Archives:
http://archives.nyphil.org

The New York Times
:
www.nytimes.com

Time
Magazine:
www.time.com

Index of Compositions by Bernstein

Note: this is an index of works mentioned in the present book. For a complete catalogue of Bernstein's compositions, see Gottlieb 1998.

Age of Anxiety, The
.
See
Symphony No.
(i)

Anniversaries
(unspecified)
(i)
.
See Seven Anniversaries
and
Thirteen Anniversaries

Birds, The
(1939; incid. music for play by Aristophanes)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
n73,
(vi)
n77

First performance: 21 April 1939, Cambridge, MA, Sanders Theatre, Harvard Classical Club, Charles T. Murphy and Lawrence B. Leighton (dirs.), Leonard Bernstein (cond.); orchestra members included Raphael Silverman [Hillyer], first violin, J[esse] Ehrlich, cello and David Glazer, clarinet

By Bernstein
(revue)
(i)
n47

First performance: 23 November 1975, New York, Chelsea Theater Center

Candide
(1954–6; book: Lillian Hellman; lyrics: Richard Wilbur, John LaTouche, Dorothy Parker, Lillian Hellman and Leonard Bernstein)
(i)
n104,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)
,
(xii)
,
(xiii)
,
(xiv)
,
(xv)
,
(xvi)
,
(xvii)
,
(xviii)
,
(xix)
,
(xx)
,
(xxi)
,
(xxii)
,
(xxiii)
n77,
(xxiv)
,
(xxv)
,
(xxvi)
n14,
(xxvii)
n23,
(xxviii)
,
(xxix)
n59,
(xxx)
n53

First performance: 29 October 1956, Boston, Colonial Theatre, cast incl. Barbara Cook (Cunegonde), Robert Rounseville (Candide), Max Adrian (Dr. Pangloss); Tyrone Guthrie (dir.), Samuel Krachmalnick (cond.)

First New York performance: 1 December 1956, Martin Beck Theatre, cast as above

Orchestrations by Bernstein and Hershy Kay

Chichester Psalms
(1965)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
n128,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
n142,
(x)
,
(xi)
n47

First performance: 15 July 1965, New York, Philharmonic Hall, John Bogart (boy alto), Camerata Singers, New York PO, Leonard Bernstein (cond.)

First UK performance: 31 July 1965, Chichester Cathedral, Choirs of Chichester, Salibury and Winchester Catherdrals, Philomusica of London, John Birch (cond.)

Dedication (on printed piano-vocal score): Commissioned by the Very Rev. Walter Hussey, Dean of Chichester Cathedral, Sussex, for its 1965 Festival, and dedicated, with gratitude, to Cyril Solomon

Much of the score is recycled from earlier music:

a) two numbers composed for the abandoned musical
The Skin of Our Teeth
: “Here Comes The Sun”, used in the first movement, and “Spring Will Come Again”, used for the outer sections of the second movement

b) a cut number from
West Side Story
(“Mix!”), used for the central section of the second movement

c) a sketch headed “Wartime Duet?” used as the main 10/4 theme of the third movement

Conch Town
(1941–2)
(i)
,
(ii)
n25,
(iii)

Planned ballet, unfinished; manuscript for two pianos and percussion virtually complete. Started during Bernstein's stay at Key West in August 1941, he was “working very hard” on it in April 1942 with the plan to “turn it into a ballet” (
see
Letter 106). Bernstein later used material from
Conch Town
in
Fancy Free
and
West Side Story

David
(January 1954)
(i)

Planned “big three-act opera” (
see
Letter 335), not composed

Dedication to Aaron Copland
.
See Seven Anniversaries

Dybbuk
(1972–4)
(i)
n145,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
n39,
(vi)

First performance: 16 May 1974, New York, New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, New York City Ballet, Jerome Robbins (choreo.), Leonard Bernstein (cond.)

Extension of a Theme by Adolph Green
(by 21 February 1943)
(i)

First broadcast performance: 21 February 1943, New York, WNYC, 6:30–7:00 p.m. (
see
Letter 125), David Oppenheim (clarinet), Leonard Bernstein (pf)

Reworked as the “Waltz” variation in
Fancy Free

Facsimile
(1946)
(i)
n104,
(ii)
n145,
(iii)
,
(iv)
n11,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
n70,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)

First performance: New York, Broadway Theatre, Ballet Theatre, Jerome Robbins (choreo.), Leonard Bernstein (cond.)

Dedication: For Jerome Robbins

Fancy Free
(1944, including material from 1941–3)
(i)
n104,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
n25,
(v)
n44,
(vi)
n76,
(vii)
n141,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)
,
(xii)
,
(xiii)
,
(xiv)
,
(xv)
,
(xvi)
,
(xvii)
,
(xviii)
,
(xix)
,
(xx)
,
(xxi)
n30,
(xxii)
n65,
(xxiii)
n77,
(xxiv)
,
(xxv)
n32,
(xxvi)
,
(xxvii)
,
(xxviii)

First performance: 18 April 1944, New York, Metropolitan Opera House, Ballet Theatre, Jerome Robbins (choreo.), Leonard Bernstein (cond.)