“His father wanted him to go into the family hairdressing business and refused to pay for fancy piano lessons, so young Lenny raised the cash he needed by teaching piano to neighbourhood kids at $1 an hour.” Humphrey Burton, Radio 3 broadcaster and biographer of Leonard Bernstein, discusses his memories of Lenny in a great [...]
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The Bernstein Project Installation Get to know… Paula Chateauneuf Over one weekend in October lutenist Paula Chateauneuf curates Take The Risk, an innovative and exciting series of concerts and workshops at Southbank Centre that explore improvisation in early music. So where does Willy Wonka, ballet and a good coffee supply fit in with this much [...]
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Running the length of Southbank Centre’s season long Bernstein Project is Mass Installation, an audiovisual installation featuring a behind the scenes peek into the performances and rehearsals at Southbank Centre, including our preparations (already well underway) for the huge performance of Mass, featuring the Mass Orchestra, a rock band, a marching band, several choirs – [...]
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Marin Alsop The Bernstein Project’s Artistic Director was interviewed this week by Kirsty Lang for the BBC. In the conversation Alsop describes the moment she first saw Bernstein conduct and her time as young conductor when Bernstein acted as her mentor. Watch the interview in full at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8267043.stm
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Once upon a time, in the very distant past, music existed in neither written nor printed form; it was both learnt and performed through the simple combined devices of memory, variation and improvisation. Thousands of years later many musicians still work in exactly this manner; but in one genre – that of classical music – [...]
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Marin will be taking up residence at Southbank Centre from Sept 20 as Artistic Director of The Brenstein Project, a 10 month celebration of Leonard Bernstein – one of the most charismatic men of the 20th century. She will be signing copies of her recently released and hugely successful CD recording of Bernstein’s Mass (Naxos). [...]
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John Adams talks to the London Sinfonietta about the concert on 27 September 2009 at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London, featuring the UK premiere of his new work Son of Chamber Symphony. He also discusses his history of working with the Sinfonietta, the other works by American composers John Cage, Paul Dresher and David [...]
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