Leonard Bernstein News

The Leonard Bernstein operetta Candide , starring Julian Whitley, Ben Rosenblatt and McCaela Donovan, begins performances July 7 at the Berkshire Theatre Festival.

From its home at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut, the United States Coast Guard Band travels to Greenwood to present "Liberty for All," an entertaining evening concert July 29, at Greenwood High School at 7:30 p.m. The 55-member Coast Guard Band is one of our nation's elite premier military bands and the proud musical ...

Tony winner Betty Buckley joins Hartford Stage's SummerStage line-up with her cabaret show, which will doubtless include a performance of "Memories." 860.527.5151 Through July 11 Curtain 7:30 pm Wed-Thurs 8 pm Fri 2 + 8 pm Sat $30-$75 CANDIDE Leonard Bernstein's 1956 "comic operetta" based on the Voltaire novella comes to the Berkshires, complete ...

Casting is now complete for the Berkshire Theatre Festival productions of Leonard Bernstein's Candide and the Neil Simon comedy The Prisoner of Second Avenue .

On June 23rd, 1959, Leonard Bernstein and the Columbia Symphony took their places at the St.

Village Theatre Kidstage's Summer Independent gears up to produce the classic music Al West Side Story, set to run July 18July 25, 2009 at the Francis J. Gaudette Theatre in downtown Issaquah.

John Terauds CLASSICAL MUSIC CRITIC In the rousing finale to Leonard Bernstein's musical Candide , the characters realize what is most important in life: "Let dreamers dream/ What worlds they please/ Those Edens can't be found./ The sweetest flowers,/ The fairest trees/ Are sown in solid ground." These words of wisdom are borne out in the Toronto ...

What: University of North Texas faculty members, students and alumni will perform at the Crested Butte Music Festival : Follow the Generations Through Paradise, which is expected to draw in 4,000 visitors.

Bring a blanket to sit on. And expect that you will leave humming. That's because this week's Peck Pavilion Pops outdoors series at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts, 929 N. Water St., offers some of the best-beloved music of Broadway.

The program includes Leonard Bernstein's opera, "Trouble in Tahiti"; Claudio Monteverdi's "Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorida"; Mozart's piano concert K107 for violin/violoncello/piano; Beethoven's Overture to "Creatures of Prometheus" for flute/violin/violoncello/piano; Mahler's "Songs of a Wayfarer" for baritone and instruments; and selections ...

One of the wonderful things about Galveston is that you can rarely tell a story without running into another one.

Candide , the misadventures of Voltaire's classic hero come to stage at 8 p.m., Saturday, June at Caada College Main Theatre, 4200 Farm Hill Blvd.

Leonard Bernstein lovers, rejoice. "A Place for Us: Chicago Sings Bernstein," a one-night-only benefit performance supporting Porchlight Music Theatre's upcoming 15th anniversary season, will gather some of Chicago's finest musical theater and cabaret performers for a celebration of the Broadway composer responsible for such shows as "West Side ...

Jazz and popular music have heavily influenced this highly engaging recording of music for clarinet and piano .

The Parsippany High School Music Department will present its annual Spring Concert featuring the Concert Band & Wind Ensemble, on Thursday, June 4, 7:30 p.m. in the high school auditorium, 309 Baldwin Road.

Now in its 35th year, the Sutton Coldfield Orchestra has consistently brought music-making of the highest quality to the north Birmingham area, attracting audiences perhaps reluctant to make the trip into the city centre on a Saturday night.

The New York Philharmonic's performance on Saturday night struck a delightful balance between tradition and change.

Dave Douglas and his Keystone sextet will perform a multimedia commission on April 24.

Only in the best of all possible worlds would a children's theater company take on a comic operetta as notoriously challenging as "Candide." A scathing satire of optimism steeped in the 18th-century philosophical paradoxes of the age of the Enlightenment, "Music Man," it ain't. Indeed, Leonard Bernstein's musical homage to Voltaire's masterpiece ...

The latest recording in Scott Siegel's acclaimed Broadway By the Year series, "The Broadway Musicals of 1956," is now available on CD on the Original Cast Records label.