Author: Bernstein, Leonard,
Title: West Side Story and other Masterpieces.
Description: Santa Monica, CA, Delta Music Inc, (1995). VG CD 52 minutes. Candide Overture; West Side Story (melodies); Halil (nocture for solo flute with piccolo, flute, percussion, harp & strings. Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sir Neville Marriner, Boosey & Hawkes. In leaflet with photo of Bernstein, Jerome Stern recounts his five decade career from his 1943 Philharmonic debut until his death at 72 in 1990. Bernstein was born in 1918 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, to Russian immigrant parents, majored in music at Harvard, and wrote his honors thesis on how American music reflects the ethnic backgrounds of its composers and continued his studies at Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. In the summer he studied at the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Tanglewood Music Center.

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