Leonard Bernstein: Notes from a Friend - Hardcover

Chapin, Schuyler

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802712169 ISBN 13: 9780802712165

Publisher: Walker & Co, 1992

Synopsis

A distinguished music scholar and cultural administrator offers an affectionate, intimate portrait of his long-time friendship with Leonard Bernstein, presenting anecdotes and vignettes that capture the human side of the great maestro.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Chapin knew the late conductor for more than 30 years, first as head of Columbia Records' classical music division and later as general manager of the Metropolitan Opera. These positions gave him vantage points from which he could observe the effervescent composer-conductor in action, in his typical combination of lovability and impossibility. We see Bernstein in London, New York City, Israel and Vienna, filming TV movies, making his famous Omnibus appearances, molding sometimes recalcitrant orchestras into star ensembles--and always partying through the night. Chapin has written a warm, engaging and modest memoir, with plenty of anecdotes; he doesn't tell us much we didn't already know about Lenny, but he gives a solid sense of the demanding hard work and dedication that went into creating the music, and the educational ventures, that brought the popular musician and maestro so much adulation. The major book on Bernstein has yet to be written, but in the meantime this is a valuable series of footnotes to an extraordinary life.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Walker & Co
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0802712169
• ISBN 13: 9780802712165
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 196