leonard bernstein music (19 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. (Musicals, Songbooks) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. (Music, Sheet music, Songbook) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 430 printed pages of text with archive monochrome photographs throughout. Dusty page edges. Very Good condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Member of the P.B.F.A. MUSIC [Classical].

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Dust jacket in acceptable condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. DJ shows scuffing, chipping, and edgewear. Boards show scuffing, interior pages clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 430 printed pages of text with archive monochrome photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, unused new book. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0593014545 MUSIC [Classical].

Book Club edition hard back binding in publisher's original striking red cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 287 pp with monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with short closed tear to the top front gutter, spine sun faded. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. MUSIC [Classical].

Original stapled illustrated souvenir programme. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 12 pages. In Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. MUSIC [Classical].

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Zustand: Bien. Chapell and Co., UK, 1958. Texto en inglés. Teatro. Música. 62 pp. 25 x 18. Tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Sin subrayados. Buen estado de conservación.

Wraps. Zustand: Good. Philip Trachtman (cover) (illustrator). 12 pages, plus covers. Illustrations (some color inside). The original production was directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins. This production was directed by Jed Horner. West Side Story is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. Inspired by William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, the story is set in the mid-1950s in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, then a multiracial, blue-collar neighborhood. The musical explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds. The members of the Sharks, from Puerto Rico, are taunted by the Jets, a white gang. The young protagonist, Tony, a former member of the Jets and best friend of the gang's leader, Riff, falls in love with Maria, the sister of Bernardo, the leader of the Sharks. The dark theme, sophisticated music, extended dance scenes, and focus on social problems marked a turning point in musical theatre. As in Romeo and Juliet, the love between members of two rival groups in West Side Story leads to violent confrontations "and a tragic ending with an underlying message: Violence breeds violence, so make peace and learn to share turf." Among the social themes explored in the musical are "bigotry, cultural misunderstanding and the social failure to fully integrate and empower young people in constructive ways". This program includes The History of the Show, including a photograph of Lucille Ball performing on the New York Stage. In addition to narratives on the principal cast members, the authors, producers, director, choreographer, musical director, and musical supervisor, there is a synopsis of the show. The last page and inside the back cover are photographs of the General Manager, Lighting director, and a very large ensemble cast. This production may have toured: Valley Forge Music Fair, Devon, Pa; Camden County Music Fair, Haddonfield, NJ; Westbury Music Fair, Westbury, L.I.; Storrowton Music Fair, West Springfield, Mass.; and Painters Mill Music Fair, Owings Mills, Md. The principal cast members were Bob Kole, Joy Clements, Wisa D'Orso, Lenny Dale, Harold DaSilva, Richard Kuss, Maurice Shrog, Cherry Davis and Herman Schwenk. Joy Clements (née Joyce Marie Albrecht; April 29, 1932 October 24, 2005) was an American lyric coloratura soprano who had a substantial opera and concert career from 1956 through the late 1970s. She notably sang regularly with both the New York City Opera and the Metropolitan Opera during the 1960s through the early 1970s. Wisa D'Orso became an Assistant Choreographer on The Dean Martin Show who periodically danced on-screen with Dean and his guest stars during her years with the series from 1966 to 1968. A native of Hawaii born Eloise Orso, Wisa also had a long career in the theater, and worked, as well, on other television variety shows, including those hosted by Steve Allen, Perry Como, Sid Caesar, Garry Moore, and Andy Williams. In production numbers on Dean's program, she served as dance partner to Van Johnson, Buddy Ebsen, Gene Barry, Jonathan Winters and Arthur Godfrey. In her final DMS appearance, on the last show of the third season, she was given her own solo song-and-dance spot, followed by a duet with Dean. In the 1960s, D'Orso choreographed summer musicals produced by Herb Rogers, including "Gypsy," "The King and I," "Bye Bye Birdie," "South Pacific" and "West Side Story" at the Blaisdell Concert Hall. She also appeared as Rose in "Birdie" and Anita in "West Side Story". Lainie Kazan was in the ensemble cast! This is NOT among her credited stage work in her Wikipedia article. Also in the ensemble cast is Phyllis Ford, believed to later becoming Phyllis Ford Frick, an accomplished performer and sometime associate of Frank Sinatra. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus [presumably for a Summer Stock tour].

DVD box set of 5 cases, three still in shrinkwrap. 1 disc (Symphonies 1 and 2) missing from one of the cases, so 8 DVDs only. Cardboard box, bumped, else VG.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First edition. Slightly cocked spine, slight toning, and faint offsetting on the front endpapers thus very good in a very good spine-faded dust jacket with shallow chips on the spine head, rubbing, and internal toning. Sondheim's first Broadway musical, a breathtaking update of Shakespeare's *Romeo and Juliet* to contemporary New York street-gangs. That the achievement could further be translated so successfully to film, winning ten Academy Awards, is without precedent. It is also the only film for which two directors received Oscars (Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise).

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 143 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Good minus dust jacket. Beige spine with white and black text. Dust jacket is protected by mylar covering and has chipping to corners and edges, spine edges chipped off, creasing to rear cover, scratching to spine, and foxing to covers and front flap. Boards have rubbing and bumping to corners, rubbing to spine edges, and discoloration to tail edge of spine. Textblock has foxing to some pages. Shelved in Case 13. 1374555. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Slight toning, spotting, and a bump on the top board edge else near fine in a very good spine-faded dust jacket with some creasing and tiny tears. Sondheim's first Broadway musical, a breathtaking update of Shakespeare's *Romeo and Juliet* to contemporary New York street-gangs. That the achievement could further be translated so successfully to film, winning ten Academy Awards, is without precedent. It is also the only film for which two directors received Oscars (Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise).

First edition of this classic musical. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein on the half-title page and inscribed by Stephen Sondheim on the front free endpaper. Review copy, with the slip laid in, fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare and desirable signed by these three contributors. In 1947, Jerome Robbins approached Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Laurents about collaborating on a contemporary musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. He proposed that the plot focus on the conflict between an Irish Catholic family and a Jewish family living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, during the Easterâ"Passover season. The girl has survived the Holocaust and emigrated from Israel; the conflict was to be centered around anti-Semitism of the Catholic "Jets" towards the Jewish "Emeralds" (a name that made its way into the script as a reference). Eager to write his first musical, Laurents immediately agreed. Bernstein wanted to present the material in operatic form, but Robbins and Laurents resisted the suggestion. They described the project as "lyric theater", and Laurents wrote a first draft he called East Side Story. Only after he completed it did the group realize it was little more than a musicalization of themes that had already been covered in plays like Abie's Irish Rose. When he opted to drop out, the three men went their separate ways, and the piece was shelved for almost five years. In 1955, theatrical producer Martin Gabel was working on a stage adaptation of the James M. Cain novel Serenade, about an opera singer who comes to the realization he is homosexual, and he invited Laurents to write the book. Laurents accepted and suggested Bernstein and Robbins join the creative team. Robbins felt if the three were going to join forces, they should return to East Side Story, and Bernstein agreed. Laurents, however, was committed to Gabel, who introduced him to the young composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim. Sondheim auditioned by playing the score for Saturday Night, his musical that was scheduled to open in the fall. Laurents liked the lyrics but was not impressed with the music. Sondheim did not care for Laurents' opinion. Serenade ultimately was shelved. Laurents was soon hired to write the screenplay for a remake of the 1934 Greta Garbo film The Painted Veil for Ava Gardner. While in Hollywood, he contacted Bernstein, who was in town conducting at the Hollywood Bowl. The two met at The Beverly Hills Hotel, and the conversation turned to juvenile delinquent gangs, a fairly recent social phenomenon that had received major coverage on the front pages of the morning newspapers due to a Chicano turf war. Bernstein suggested they rework East Side Story and set it in Los Angeles, but Laurents felt he was more familiar with Puerto Rican immigrants and Harlem than he was with Mexican Americans and Olvera Street. The two contacted Robbins, who was enthusiastic about a musical with a Latin beat. He arrived in Hollywood to choreograph the dance sequences for The King and I, and he and Laurents began developing the musical while working on their respective projects, keeping in touch with Bernstein, who had returned to New York. When the producer of The Painted Veil replaced Gardner with Eleanor Parker and asked Laurents to revise his script with her in mind, he backed out of the film, freeing him to devote all his time to the stage musical. West Side Story is set in the Upper West Side neighborhood in New York City in the mid 1950s, an ethnic, blue-collar neighborhood (in the early 1960s, much of the neighborhood was cleared in an urban renewal project for the Lincoln Center, which changed the neighborhood's character). The musical explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds. The members of the Sharks, from Puerto Rico, are taunted by the Jets, a white gang. The young protagonist, Tony, a former member of the Jets and best friend of the gang's leader, Riff, falls in love with Maria, the sister of Bernardo, the leader of the Sharks. The dark theme, sophisticated music, extended dance scenes, and focus on social problems marked a turning point in American musical theatre. Bernstein's score for the musical includes "Something's Coming", "Maria", "America", "Somewhere", "Tonight", "Jet Song", "I Feel Pretty", "A Boy Like That", "One Hand, One Heart", "Gee, Officer Krupke", and "Cool". The original 1957 Broadway production, directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins and produced by Robert E. Griffith and Harold Prince, marked Sondheim's Broadway debut. It ran for 732 performances before going on tour. The production was nominated for six Tony Awards including Best Musical in 1957, but the award for Best Musical went to Meredith Willson's The Music Man. Robbins won the Tony Award for his choreography and Oliver Smith won for his scenic designs. The show had an even longer-running London production, a number of revivals and international productions. A 1961 musical film of the same name, directed by Robert Wise and Robbins, starred Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris and Russ Tamblyn. The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and won ten, including George Chakiris for Supporting Actor, Rita Moreno for Supporting Actress, and Best Picture.

Vintage photograph from the original Broadway production of the 1957 stage musical, showing a dance sequence. Mimeo snipe on the verso. The production ran for a wildly successful 732 performances, from September 26, 1957, through June 27, 1959, at the Winter Garden Theatre. Winner of two Tony Awards, including Best Choreographer for Jerome Robbins, and nominated for four more. 10 x 8 inches. Creasing at the bottom left corner, else Near Fine.

Vintage double weight photograph of Larry Kert and Carol Lawrence from the original 1957 production of the Broadway musical, which opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on September 26, 1957 and ran for 732 performances, closing on June 27, 1959. Stamps crediting photographer Fred Fehl and the Winter Garden production on the verso. Stephen Sondheim's Broadway debut, a modern musical update of William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." Nominated for six Tony Awards, winner of two, including Best Choreographer for Jerome Robbins. Revived four times on Broadway, most recently in 2020. Robbins, who conceived the musical, would go on to co-direct (with Robert Wise) the 1961 Academy Award winning musical film, starring Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine.

Vintage oversize borderless black-and-white reference photograph of actors Tony Mordente, Harvey Evans, Susan Oakes, Bert Michaels, Tommy Abbott, and Tucker Smith standing with director Jerome Robbins on the set of the 1961 film. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1957 Broadway musical with book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Robbins, who would go on to direct the film with Robert Wise, served as choreographer and came up with the original concept of a modern musical update of William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." Winner of ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor for George Chakiris, and Best Supporting Actress for Rita Moreno. Set in New York's West Side, shot on location in New York and California. 14 x 11 inches. Very Good plus, with light wear and creasing to the corners.