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Trouble in Tahiti
There's a Place For Us: The Musical Theatre Works of Leonard Bernstein
Author: Helen Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 135153923X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Leonard Bernstein was the quintessential American musician. Through his careers as conductor, pianist, teacher and television personality he became known across the US and the world, his flamboyance and theatricality making him a favourite with audiences, if not with critics. However, he is perhaps best remembered as a composer, particularly of the musical West Side Story, and for songs such as 'America', 'Tonight' and 'Somewhere'. Dr Helen Smith takes an in-depth look at all eight of Bernstein's musical theatre works, from the early On the Town written by the 26-year-old composer at the start of his career, to his second and last opera A Quiet Place in 1983; in between these two pieces he composed music for Trouble in Tahiti, Wonderful Town, Candide, West Side Story, Mass and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. These works are analysed and considered against a background of musical and social context, as well as looking at Bernstein's other orchestral, choral and chamber works. One important aspect examined is Bernstein's use of motifs in his theatre compositions, which takes them out of the realms of Broadway and into the sphere of symphonic writing. Smith provides an indispensable overview of the musical theatre works of an eclectic composer, and shows what it is that constitutes the Bernstein 'sound'.
Trouble in Tahiti: Bernsein's American Opera
The Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas
Author: John W. Freeman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780393040517
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains the plots of 150 of the world's most popular operas, short biographies of the 72 composers represented, plus background material pertinent to each work.
Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti
Author: Kaylee Janae Lackman
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9780438419933
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Abstract: It is uncommon for composers to write their own libretto for an opera. In writing his own libretto for Trouble in Tahiti, Leonard Bernstein took on the opera genre in a non-conventional way: with a text about a failing marriage. He used the unhappy marriage of his parents as source material for the libretto. The music of the opera highlights the tension of the marriage, including several duets in which the couple remembers a time of healthiness in their relationship. Bernstein uses the allegory of the unhappy couple to both illustrate the social expectation of a suburban family in post-war America and as a means to address gender roles by showing how each of the characters struggle to comply with the gendered social expectations of their parental and spousal duties.
Leonard Bernstein
Author: Paul Laird
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-11
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1135696780
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Beginning with an introductory essay on his achievements, it continues with annotations on Bernstein's voluminous writings, performances, educational work, and major secondary sources.
In the Flames of the Flickerman
Author: Hayford Peirce
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1434430375
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Trouble in Tahiti
Author: Carolyn Keene
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-05-27
Total Pages: 113
ISBN-13: 1481424807
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nancy and her friend, Bree, discover that Tahiti is no paradise as they search for the truth behind the death of Bree’s mother in a freak accident five years ago.
There's a Place For Us: The Musical Theatre Works of Leonard Bernstein
Author: Helen Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1351539221
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Leonard Bernstein was the quintessential American musician. Through his careers as conductor, pianist, teacher and television personality he became known across the US and the world, his flamboyance and theatricality making him a favourite with audiences, if not with critics. However, he is perhaps best remembered as a composer, particularly of the musical West Side Story, and for songs such as 'America', 'Tonight' and 'Somewhere'. Dr Helen Smith takes an in-depth look at all eight of Bernstein's musical theatre works, from the early On the Town written by the 26-year-old composer at the start of his career, to his second and last opera A Quiet Place in 1983; in between these two pieces he composed music for Trouble in Tahiti, Wonderful Town, Candide, West Side Story, Mass and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. These works are analysed and considered against a background of musical and social context, as well as looking at Bernstein's other orchestral, choral and chamber works. One important aspect examined is Bernstein's use of motifs in his theatre compositions, which takes them out of the realms of Broadway and into the sphere of symphonic writing. Smith provides an indispensable overview of the musical theatre works of an eclectic composer, and shows what it is that constitutes the Bernstein 'sound'.
