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2. America (West Side Story song) - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Leonard Bernstein - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. West Side Story - Wikipedia

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   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.

5. Behind the curtain: 'The Other Side' takes a look at daily ...

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   Mar. 8—Leonard Bernstein is having a moment in pop culture with the Oscar nominated film, "Maestro." But there's more to the life and times of the American great. This is the reason the Santa Fe ...

6. West Side Story (1961 soundtrack) - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

7. With 'Maestro' release, Hoosier musicians remember Leonard ...

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   Conductor Alfred Savia (center) met Leonard Bernstein (left) while the former was a graduate student at Butler University. Bernstein visited in 1976 to hear part of a festival dedicated to his music.

8. The True Story Behind Leonard Bernstein's Marriage in 'Maestro'

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   Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre, arrive in London in 1959. Lee - Getty Images All the while, Bernstein tried to hide his affairs from a deeply homophobic 1950s America.

9. List of compositions by Leonard Bernstein - Wikipedia

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   The Skin of Our Teeth (1964): an aborted work from which Bernstein took material to use in his "Chichester Psalms" Alarums and Flourishes (1980): an aborted work from which Bernstein took material to use in "A Quiet Place" Tucker: an aborted concept for a musical version of the 1988 film "Tucker: The Man and His Dream"