Previous by Date | Next by Date | Date Index
Previous by Thread | Next by Thread
| Thread Index
| LM_NET
Archive
| |
The following announcement is being sent to a number of lists. Please accept our apologies for any duplicate postings. The composer, conductor, writer, and teacher Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) was one of 20th-century America's most important musical figures. Bernstein came to national prominence virtually overnight through a last-minute conducting debut with the New York Philharmonic, when he substituted for Bruno Walter on November 14, 1943. He was twenty-five. Because Bernstein was a national figure from the very beginning of his career, his friend and teacher Helen Coates, who became his secretary in 1944, maintained his papers meticulously and extensively annotated many of them. The Library’s Bernstein Collection, acquired over a forty-four year time span, offers a remarkably complete record of his life and is one of the Music Division's richest repositories in the variety and scope of its materials. Its more than 400,000 items, including music and literary manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, audio and video recordings, fan mail, and other types of materials extensively document Bernstein's extraordinary life and career. The online Leonard Bernstein Collection makes available a selection of 85 photographs, 177 scripts from the Young People's Concerts, 74 scripts from the Thursday Evening Previews, and over 1,100 pieces of correspondence, in addition to the collection's complete Finding Aid. Three categories have been included from the Personal Correspondence: correspondence between Bernstein and his family; between Bernstein and Helen Coates, his teacher, friend, and assistant for most of his professional life; and between Bernstein and his two most significant mentors, Aaron Copland and Serge Koussevitzky. Two Special Presentations highlight the online collection: one is the Photo Gallery, containing all the online photographs arranged chronologically; and “Professor Lenny” by Joseph Horowitz, an in-depth article on Bernstein as music educator originally published in The New York Review of Books. The Leonard Bernstein collection can be found at the following url: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lbhtml/ Please direct any questions to ndlpcoll@loc.gov =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-= All postings to LM_NET are protected under copyright law. To quit LM_NET (or set-reset NOMAIL or DIGEST), send email to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL or 3) SET LM_NET DIGEST 4) SET LM_NET MAIL * Please allow for confirmation from Listserv. For LM_NET Help see: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ Archives: http://askeric.org/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/LM_NET.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=