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A theme from "America" was referenced by John Williams for his celebratory For New York, composed in 1988 for Bernstein's 70th birthday gala. [8] In 1989, a verse of the song was sampled in Big Audio Dynamite's single "James Brown" with a 4/4 beat underneath. In 2003, the song was used in advertisements for Admiral Insurance though with ...
West Side Story is the soundtrack album to the 1961 film West Side Story, featuring music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.Released in 1961, the soundtrack spent 54 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard ' s stereo albums charts, giving it the longest run at No. 1 of any album in history, [2] although some lists instead credit Michael Jackson's Thriller, on the grounds that this run ...
Each poem covers America's artistic past including marriage, creativity, love, and minority problems like women's rights, racism, and homosexuality. Its first complete performance was given by the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer on October 11, 1977, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., a year later.
For their second single, the Nice created an arrangement of Leonard Bernstein's "America" which Emerson described as the first ever instrumental protest song. The track used the main theme of the Bernstein piece (from West Side Story) but also included fragments of Dvořák's New World Symphony. The single concludes with Arnold's three-year-old ...
Leonard Bernstein (/ ˈ b ɜːr n s t aɪ n / BURN-styne; [1] born Louis Bernstein; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was the first American-born conductor to receive international ...
Bernstein recorded the Symphonic Dances with the New York Philharmonic in 1961, [8] and with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1983. [9] The suite has entered the repertoire of many orchestras around the world and has been recorded by such orchestras as the San Francisco Symphony under the direction of Seiji Ozawa in 1972.
The Unanswered Question is a lecture series given by Leonard Bernstein in the fall of 1973. This series of six lectures was a component of Bernstein's duties as the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry for the 1972/73 academic year at Harvard University, and is therefore often referred to as the Norton Lectures.
The song is a love duet between the protagonists Tony and Maria, sung while Tony visits Maria on the fire escape outside her apartment. West Side Story is a modernized adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet set in 20th-century New York; the scene in which "Tonight" appears is the adaptation of Romeo and Juliet's famous "balcony scene".