The Leonard Bernstein Letters (105 page)

First performance of revised version: 15 July 1965, New York, Philharmonic Hall, Philippe Entremont (pf), New York PO, Leonard Bernstein (cond.)

Dedication: For Serge Koussevitzky, in tribute

Symphony No. 3, Kaddish
(1963; rev. 1977)
(i)
n2,
(ii)
n108,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)
n23

First performance: 10 December 1963, Tel Aviv, Frederick Mann Auditorium, Hannah Rovina (speaker), Jennie Tourel (mezzo-sop.), Abraham Kaplan (choirs dir.), Israel PO, Leonard Bernstein (cond.)

First US performance: 31 January 1964, Boston, Symphony Hall, Felicia Montealegre (speaker), Jennie Tourel (mezzo-sop.), New England Conservatory Chorus, Columbus Boychoir, Boston SO, Charles Munch (cond.)

First performance of revised version: 25 August 1977, Mainz, Michael Wager (speaker), Monserrat Caballé (soprano), Wiener Jeunesse Chor, Wiener Sängerknaben, Israel PO, Leonard Bernstein (cond.)

Dedication: To the Beloved Memory of John F. Kennedy

Thirteen Anniversaries
(1974–89)
(i)
n61

Dedications: I. For Shirley Gabis Rhoads Perle; II. In Memoriam: William Kapell; III. For Stephen Sondheim; IV. For Craig Urquhart; V. For Leo Smit; VI. For My Daughter, Nina; VII. In Memoriam: Helen Coates; VIII. In Memoriam: Goddard Lieberson; IX. For Jessica Fleischmann; X. In Memoriam: Constance Hope; XI. For Felicia, On Our 28th Birthday (& Her 52nd); XII. For Aaron Stern; XIII. In Memoriam: Ellen Goetz

Trouble in Tahiti
(1951, libretto by Leonard Bernstein)
(i)
n46,
(ii)
,
(iii)
n47,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)
,
(xii)
,
(xiii)
,
(xiv)
,
(xv)
,
(xvi)
n45

First performance: 12 June 1952, Brandeis University Festival of the Creative Arts, cast incl. Nell Tangeman (Dinah), David Atkinson (Sam), Constance Bingham, Robert Kole and Claude Heater (Trio), Elliot Silverstein (dir.), Leonard Bernstein (cond.)

First New York performance: 19 April 1955, Playhouse Theatre, cast incl. Alice Ghostley (Dinah), John Tyers (Sam), Constance Bingham, John Taliafero, James Tushar (Trio), David Brooks (dir.), Joseph D. Lewis and Urey Krasnopolsky (pfs), Max Rich (drums), Leonard Gaskin (bass)

Dedication: For Marc Blitzstein

West Side Story
(1949–57; based on an idea by Jerome Robbins, book: Arthur Laurents, lyrics: Stephen Sondheim)
(i)
n4,
(ii)
n104,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
n145,
(vi)
n5,
(vii)
n132,
(viii)
n140,
(ix)
n173,
(x)
n76,
(xi)
,
(xii)
,
(xiii)
,
(xiv)
,
(xv)
,
(xvi)
,
(xvii)
,
(xviii)
,
(xix)
,
(xx)
,
(xxi)
,
(xxii)
,
(xxiii)
,
(xxiv)
,
(xxv)
,
(xxvi)
,
(xxvii)
,
(xxviii)
,
(xxix)
,
(xxx)
,
(xxxi)
,
(xxxii)
,
(xxxiii)
,
(xxxiv)
,
(xxxv)
,
(xxxvi)
,
(xxxvii)
,
(xxxviii)
,
(xxxix)
,
(xl)
,
(xli)
,
(xlii)
,
(xliii)
,
(xliv)
,
(xlv)
,
(xlvi)
,
(xlvii)
,
(xlviii)
,
(xlix)
n58,
(l)
,
(li)
,
(lii)
,
(liii)
,
(liv)
,
(lv)
,
(lvi)
,
(lvii)
,
(lviii)

First performance: 19 August 1957, Washington, D.C., National Theatre, cast incl. Carol Lawrence (Maria), Chita Rivera (Anita), Larry Kert (Tony), Ken Le Roy (Bernardo), Mickey Calin (Riff), Art Smith (Doc); Jerome Robbins (concept and dir.), Max Goberman (cond.)

First New York performance: 26 September 1957, Winter Garden Theatre, cast as above

Orchestrations by Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal with Bernstein

Dedication: To Felicia, with love

White House Cantata, A
(scenes from
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
), arr. Charlie Harmon and Sid Ramin (1997)
(i)
,
(ii)
n38

First performance: 8 July 1997, London, Barbican Centre, Nancy Gustafson, Dietrich Henschel, Jacqueline Miura, Thomas Young, London Voices, London SO, Kent Nagano (cond.)

Wonderful Town
(1952–3; book: Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov, lyrics: Betty Comden and Adolph Green)
(i)
,
(ii)
n43,
(iii)
n60,
(iv)
n113,
(v)
n171,
(vi)
n58,
(vii)
n73,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)
,
(xii)
,
(xiii)
n60,
(xiv)
n128,
(xv)
,
(xvi)
n53

First performance: 19 January 1953, New Haven, CT, Shubert Theater, cast incl. Rosalind Russell (Ruth), Edith Adams (Eileen), George Gaynes (Robert Baker), Jordan Bentley (Wreck), Cris Alexander (Frank); Donald Saddler (choreo.), George Abbott (dir.), Lehman Engel (cond.)

First New York performance: 26 February 1926, Winter Garden Theatre, cast as above

Orchestrations by Don Walker assisted by Seymour Ginzler and Sid Ramin

Arrangement:

El Salón México
(Aaron Copland), transcribed for solo piano (by 10 December 1940;
see
Letter 74)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
n107,
(vi)
,
(vii)
n160

First known public performance: 18 November 1941, Boston, Copley Plaza Hotel, as part of recital for the Chromatic Club, Leonard Bernstein (pf). The program for this concert makes no mention of the Copland transcription being a first performance. Since it had been finished a year earlier, it is likely that Bernstein had played it before, possibly at private concerts

General Index

Abarbanell, Lina
(i)

Abbado, Claudio
(i)

Abbott, George
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
n4,
(vi)
,
(vii)
n6,
(viii)
,
(ix)
n173,
(x)

Abell, David Charles
(i)
,
(ii)

Abravanel, Maurice
(i)
n104,
(ii)

Action Committee to Free Spain Now
(i)

Adams, Franklin P.
(i)

Adams, John
(i)

Adams, Sherman
(i)

Adams, Stanley
(i)
,
(ii)

Adler, Ellen
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
n146,
(iv)
,
(v)

Adler, Larry
(i)

Albert, Eddie
(i)

Alexander, Holmes
(i)

Alger, Horatio
(i)

Allegro
(musical)
(i)
,
(ii)
n60

Allen, Elizabeth
(i)
,
(ii)

Alphand, Claude
(i)
,
(ii)

Al Smith Memorial Hospital Fund
(i)

Alsop, Marin
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Alswang, Ralph
(i)

Amber, Lenny (pseudonym for Leonard Bernstein)
(i)

American Arts Committee for Palestine
(i)

American Christian Palestine Committee
(i)

American Civil Liberties Union
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

American Committee for Spanish Freedom
(i)

American Committee of Yugoslav Relief
(i)

American Council for a Democratic Greece
(i)

American Friends of Hebrew University
(i)

American Friends Services Committee
(i)

American Fund for Israel Institutions
(i)

American Fund for Palestinian Institutions
(i)

American Legion
(i)
n64

American Red Cross
(i)

American Red Magen David for Palestine
(i)

American Youth for Democracy
(i)

Andrews, Dana
(i)
n62,
(ii)

Antheil, George
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Arlen, Harold
(i)

Armstrong, Louis
(i)

Arrau, Claudio
(i)
,
(ii)
n59,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)

Askew, Constance
(i)
,
(ii)

Atkinson, Brooks
(i)
n61,
(ii)
,
(iii)
n77,
(iv)

Auber, Daniel François Esprit
(i)

Auden, Wystan Hugh
(i)
,
(ii)
n163,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
n116,
(vi)

Age of Anxiety, The
(i)
,
(ii)
n110,
(iii)
n16,
(iv)
n90,
(v)
n116

Augustine, Stephanie
(i)

Avedon, Richard
(i)
,
(ii)

Avshalomoff, Jacob (Jack)
(i)
n49,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Ax, Emanuel
(i)

Bacall, Lauren (Betty)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
n56

Bach, Johann Sebastian
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
n29,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)

Barber, Samuel
(i)
n58,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
n94,
(x)
n133,
(xi)
,
(xii)

Adagio for Strings
(i)
n10

Second Essay
(i)
n10

Violin Concerto
(i)
n10,
(ii)
,
(iii)
n58

Barrymore, Ethel
(i)

Bartók, Béla
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)
,
(xii)
,
(xiii)
n133,
(xiv)
,
(xv)
,
(xvi)
,
(xvii)
,
(xviii)

Concerto for Orchestra
(i)
n71

Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
n169

Portrait
Op. 5 No. 1
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Rhapsody
No. 1
(i)
,
(ii)

Baudelaire, Charles
(i)

Bauer, Harold
(i)

Bauer, Marion
(i)
,
(ii)

Baxter, Anne
(i)
n62

Bearson, Lawrence
(i)

Beat Generation
(i)

Beckoning Fair One, The
(unrealized film project)
(i)
n59,
(ii)
n74

Beery, Wallace
(i)
,
(ii)

Beethoven, Ludwig van
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
n27,
(xi)
,
(xii)
n151,
(xiii)

Fidelio
(i)
,
(ii)

Leonore
No. 3 Overture
(i)
,
(ii)
n27,
(iii)

Missa solemnis
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Piano Concerto No. 1
(i)
,
(ii)
n32,
(iii)
,
(iv)
n70,
(v)

String Quartets
(i)
,
(ii)

String Quartet Op. 131 arr. Mitropoulos
(i)
n40

Symphony No. 1
(i)
n27

Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”)
(i)
n69,
(ii)
n69

Symphony No. 4
(i)
,
(ii)

Symphony No. 5
(i)
,
(ii)
n99

Symphony No. 7
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Symphony No. 9
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Triple Concerto
(i)
,
(ii)
n63

Beinum, Eduard van
(i)

Bellafonte, Harry
(i)

Bellini, Vincenzo
(i)
n149

Sonnambula, La
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Bells are Ringing
(musical)
(i)
n21,
(ii)
n5,
(iii)
n2

Ben-Gurion, David
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Bennett, Richard Rodney
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
n25

Nicholas and Alexandra
(i)

Symphony No. 2
(i)

Bennett, Robert Russell
(i)

Berezowsky, Alice
(i)

Berezowsky, Nicolai
(i)
,
(ii)
n86

Berger, Arthur
(i)
n27,
(ii)
n28,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
n101,
(vi)