Production shots of the upcoming (Friday 26 March) exciting performance of Bernstein’s one-act operatic masterpiece Trouble in Tahiti by Psappha, one of UK’s leading new music ensembles. Buy tickets here >> Psappha also performs Arias and Barcarolles, a piece Bernstein wrote in response to President Einsenhower, after he declared to Bernstein: ‘I like music with [...]
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Take an intimate look into Leonard Bernstein’s life, genius and discipline. Download a podcast of Craig Urquhart, Bernstein’s assistant from 1985–1990, speaking to Edward Seckerson (writer, broadcaster and chief classical music and opera critic for The Independent) about his memories of his colleague and dear friend Lenny. The most memorable concert for me was the [...]
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Hear the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment’s Podcast on their ground-breaking late-night concert series The Night Shift. The podcast includes reviews of October’s Night Shift featuring Yannick Nezet-Seguin himself, and looks forward to the next Night Shift, here at Southbank Centre this Saturday. The Night Shift Saturday 5 December As part of Southbank Centre’s [...]
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The weekend of 5-6 December presents a great opportunity for anyone who wants to delve deeper into the meaning of music, guided by one of the medium’s great communicators and geniuses, Leonard Bernstein. In two days of events at Queen Elizabeth Hall, The Bernstein Project Artistic Director Marin Alsop, film curator Humphrey Burton, Southbank Centre [...]
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‘My brother and I were watching The Flintstones on television. Betty and Wilma were going to the Hollyrock Bowl to hear Leonard Bernstone conduct. That was really when the penny dropped. We thought, wow, he must have really hit the big time.’ (Jamie Bernstein) The Jamie Berstein Podcast As part of our ten-month celebration of [...]
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Leonard Bernstein has always been a politically polarising figure, as his profile grew, a man who’s radical associations provoked serious concern amongst the American political establishment. What form this concern might have taken and how it might have impacted Bernstein’s career has until recently always been something of mystery. Last year The New Yorker‘s music [...]
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“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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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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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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