Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
Part Two
Tuesday 31 May 2005 0:00-1:00 (Radio 3)
Repeated: Tuesday 31 May 2005 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
2/5. More music from Bernstein's Broadway years, presented by Humphrey Burton from New York. Today, excerpts from the one-act opera Trouble in Tahiti (1952), a study in domestic discord composed on his honeymoon, and Wonderful Town (1953), a blissfully nostalgic evocation of Greenwich Village in the swing era, starring Rosalind Russell.
Guests in Manhattan include Seymour Lipkin who conducted the premier of Tahiti, and producer Harold Prince who worked as a stage manager on Wonderful Town.
Playlist
Trouble in Tahiti (excerpt)
Prelude
Beverley Wolff, David Atkinson, Miriam Workman, Earl Rogers, Robert Bollinger
MGM Studio Orchestra conducted by Arthur Winograd
POLYDOR 827 845-2
Trouble in Tahiti (excerpt)
What a movie!
Nancy Williams
Columbia Wind Ensemble conducted by Leonard Bernstein
SONY SK 47154
Wonderful Town (excerpts)
Christopher Street; One hundred easy ways; What a waste; A little bit in love; Conversation piece; Swing
Warren Galjour, Rosalind Russell, George Gaynes, Albert Linville, Edith Adams, John Reardon
MGM Studio Orchestra conducted by Lehman Engel
MCA 10050
Wonderful Town (excerpt)
Wrong note rag
MGM Studio Orchestra and chorus conducted by Lehman Engel
MCA 10050
Lonely Me
John Reardon
PAINTED SMILE CD 107
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