Research Catalog
Music in America
- Title
- Music in America : radio broadcast, 1983-06.
- Author
- Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990
- Publication
- 1983.
Available Online
Details
- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Margaret Carson audio-visual materials.
- Description
- 2 streaming audio files (approximately 56 min.) : digital, mono.
- Summary
- This broadcast takes place 2 weeks prior to the premier of Bernstein's opera 'A quiet place" scheduled to be performed by the Houston Opera on June 17, 1983 (probably between June 2-4). It is a scrutiny of Bernstein as an opera composer of the 1 act work "Trouble in Tahiti" composed in 1952 and a 30-year later 3 act work that incorporates the former. Commentaries cover synopsis of both works as well as the psychology of the characters, the different type of music used by the composer, reasons that turned Bernstein away from writing musicals for Broadway and led him to the creation of the opera, and circumstances that steered him to explore this option. Excerpts of his music intermix with spoken texts.
- Uniform Title
- Music in America (Radio program)
- Alternative Title
- Margaret Carson audio-visual materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Operas.
- Classical music radio programs.
- Note
- Title and date from audition.
- Streaming file transferred from original audiocassette.
- Access (note)
- Access to original items restricted. Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at the NYPL Research Libraries.
- Source (note)
- Margaret Carson
- Language (note)
- Sung in English.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of: Margaret Carson audio-visual materials, *L(Special) 92-23.
- Call Number
- *LTC-A 1592
- OCLC
- 923018986
- Author
- Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990, composer.
- Title
- Music in America : radio broadcast, 1983-06.
- Production
- 1983.
- Country of Producing Entity
- United States.
- Type of Content
- performed music
- Type of Medium
- audiocomputer
- Type of Carrier
- online resource
- Performer
- Jim Unrath, host ; Nancy Williams (Dinah) and Julian Patrick (Sam) (Trouble in Tahiti) ; Lukas Foss, pianist with Israel Philharmonic (last mvmt from symphony Age of anxiety) ; Leonard Bernstein, commentator and conductor ; Stephen Wadsworth, commentator.
- Event
- Broadcast on WFMT radio Chicago 1983 June.
- Access
- Access to original items restricted. Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at the NYPL Research Libraries.
- Language
- Sung in English.
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of: Margaret Carson audio-visual materials, *L(Special) 92-23.
- Source
- Gift; Margaret Carson, 1992.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Container of (work): Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990. Age of anxiety. Epilogue.Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990, conductor.Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990, commentator.Wadsworth, Stephen, commentator.Williams, Nancy, 1935-2006, performer.Patrick, Julian, 1927-2009, performer.Foss, Lukas, 1922-2009, pianist.Unrath, Jim, host.Tizmoret ha-filharmonit ha-Yiśreʼelit, performer.WFMT (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.)Carson, Margaret, 1911-2007, donor.
- Added Title
- Music in America (Radio program)Margaret Carson audio-visual materials.
- Found In:
- Margaret Carson audio-visual materials.
- Research Call Number
- *LTC-A 1592