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Auteur(s) : Seldes, Barry (1938-....)
Titre(s) : Leonard Bernstein [Texte imprimé] : the political life of an American musician / Barry Seldes
Publication : Berkeley, Calif. ; Los Angeles, Calif. ; London : University of California press,
©2009
Description matérielle : xiv, 276 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Comprend : Young American : Bernstein at Harvard ; The forties : ascent and blacklist ; American
Biedermeier : 1951-1959 ; The long sixties : 1960-1973 ; Norton lectures : 1973
; Bernstein at sea : 1974-1990 ; Understanding Bernstein.
Note(s) : "Roth Family Foundation music in America imprint"--Prelimimary page. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-250) and index. - נושא ישן: Musicians, Jewish - United States - 20th century
From his dazzling conducting debut in 1943 until his death in 1990, Leonard Bernstein's
star blazed brilliantly. In this fresh and revealing biography of Bernstein's political
life, Barry Seldes examines Bernstein's career against the backdrop of cold war America{u2014}blacklisting
by the State Department in 1950, voluntary exile from the New York Philharmonic in
1951 for fear that he might be blacklisted, signing a humiliating affidavit to regain
his passport{u2014}and the factors that by the mid-1950s allowed his triumphant return
to the New York Philharmonic. Seldes for the first time links Bernstein's great concert-hall
and musical-theatrical achievements and his real and perceived artistic setbacks to
his involvement with progressive political causes. Making extensive use of previously
untapped FBI files as well as overlooked materials in the Library of Congress's Bernstein
archive, Seldes illuminates the ways in which Bernstein's career intersected with
the twentieth century's most momentous events. This broadly accessible and impressively
documented account of the celebrity-maestro's life deepens our understanding of an
entire era as it reveals important and often ignored intersections of American culture
and political power
Sujet(s) : Bernstein, Leonard (1918-1990) -- Pensée politique et sociale -- Activité politique
Bernstein, Leonard (1918-1990)
Musique et politique -- États-Unis
Indice(s) Dewey :
780.92 (23e éd.) = Musique - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780520257641. - ISBN 0520257642
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb422956464
Notice n° :
FRBNF42295646
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