Musical Interest - Theatre Books List levant, oscar MEMOIRS OF AN AMNESIAC. oscar levant A worldclass pianist, composer,television and film personality, levant seemed to know everyone who was http://www.samuelfrench-london.co.uk/sf/Pages/theatre-bks-list/musical-interest.
Extractions: 175 years of service to theatre We regret we are unable to include prices at present. Please contact us for more information on prices and availability of the books given in this list. Please remember to include your name and full postal address (including postcode and country) when submitting any enquiry. How to order All books are paperback unless stated otherwise. MUSICAL INTEREST BOOKS VOCAL SELECTIONS BENNETT, ROBERT RUSSELL The remarkable career of composer-orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett (1894-1981) encompassed a wide range of both "legitimate" and popular music-making in Hollywood, on Broadway, and for television. Bennett is principally responsible for what is known world-wide as the "Broadway sound" and for greatly elevating the status of the theatre orchestrator. He worked along side Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Irvin Berlin and Richard Rogers on much of the Broadway canon, eventually providing orchestrations for all or part of more than 300 musicals between 1920 and 1975. This work as the first publication of Bennett’s autobiography, which was written in the late 1970s. It also includes eight of his most important essays on the art of orchestration. — George J. Ferencz is Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater. ISBN 1 58046 082 8
Quotations By L Authors oscar levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo s fiancee Having childrenmakes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. http://www.aphids.com/cgi-bin/quotes.pl?act=ShowListingsForCat&Category=L
Gershwin Crazy In one rare moment of doubt, he asked his friend oscar levant Do you think was a close friend of Gershwin and was a fine pianist before his descent http://citypaper.net/articles/092498/music.classical1.shtml
Extractions: George Gershwin had a healthy high regard for his own music, and he loved playing it in concerts and at private parties. In one rare moment of doubt, he asked his friend Oscar Levant: "Do you think anyone will be playing my music 50 years from now?" and Levant replied: "If you're still alive, yes." Well, George died at age 38, and here we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth. He was born in Brooklyn exactly 100 years ago (well, depending when you picked up this copy of City Paper ), on Sept. 26. More people than ever are listening to his music, playing it and recording it. A batch of new CDs and historic reissues have come out to coincide with the centennial celebration. Here's a sampling of the most interesting of them. Gershwin made his reputation in the 1920s as a composer of Broadway shows, and the songs he wrote for them are his outstanding legacy. The re-releases of Lady Be Good, Oh Kay
Extractions: Templeton on RCA 78s The popular Templeton on Atlantic 45 RPM Remington R-199-158 Remington R-199-184 Counterpoint/Esoteric Margareth Humphrey, a piano teacher in Newport near Cardiff (Wales, Great Britain) had many pupils. One day, in the early nineteen twenties,a small, blind boy was presented to her. He came from a deprived background. Margareth immediately recognized his talent, took him under her wing and gave him lessons for free. The young boy's name was Alec Templeton. Some music lovers know the name Alec Templeton as of the composer of "Bach Goes To Town". And if their knowledge goes a bit further they also may recall "Mozart Matriculates" and even "Scarlatti Stoops to Conga". Templeton was known as the radio and tv celebrity who in the nineteen forties and fifties regularly appeared on shows hosted by Bing Crosby, and who later had his own show called "It's Alec Templeton Time" (6/3 - 8/26/1955). The more serious collector, while consulting a record catalog for references of specific recordings, may have seen the entry under Gershwin of blind Alec Templeton's recording of "Rhapsody in Blue" with Andre Kostelanetz for Columbia in the nineteen forties. The recording was issued on two 12" shellac discs (CX-190) and on vinyl (ML-4455) and was listed in Columbia's catalog next to the famous recording of Oscar Levant with the Philadelphia Orchestra and conductor Eugene Ormandy.
The New York Pops oscar levant always told me that the publishers, if I may quote him directly, including first prize in the Fujian Provincial Young pianist Competition, http://www.carnegiehall.org/textSite/box_office/events/evt_4416.html
Extractions: Through the years much has been written about the relationship between Gershwin and Ravel. Gershwinâs desire to ascend to a more academic status as a composer led him to Paris in 1928 to study with Ravel, whom he greatly admired. As fate would have it, the pupil proved to be a great influence over the master. Ravelâs piano concertos almost directly relate to the melodic and syncopated style of Gershwin.
CDs (This eccentric pianist suffered from lifelong depression, popped pills, oscar levant Plays Gershwin (levant s bipolar fueled his wit, talent, http://www.mcmanweb.com/book-19.htm
Extractions: McMan's Depression and Bipolar Web Home Articles Links News ... Donate Knowledge is Necessity Main books page. Go here More Book Categories Highly Recommended New Classics Depression Books ... Readers' Choices Book Reviews The Noonday Demon Electroboy The Best Awful CDs Featuring works by composers or performing artists with depression or bipolar. Beethoven: Nine Symphonies Herbert Van Karajan's classic 1963 cycle with the Berlin Philharmonic. (See article Judy Garland: Capitol Years 19955-1965 Remastered classics. (Renowned for moving her audiences to tears, she wound up paying the ultimate price in 1969.) Classical Bela Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony. (This Hungarian composer experienced ill health and depression during the final years of his life as a refugee in America.) Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique Ricardo Muti and the Philadelphia Orchestra. (The first true "program" symphony, a lovesick musician sinks into depression and overdoses on a narcotic. Later, embittered by the poor reception of his opera, Les Troyens, Berlioz sank into another depression and abandoned composing altogether.) Anton Bruckner: The Complete Symphonies Eugen Jochum. (Suicidal depression and anxiety resulted in a nervous breakdown that required a three-month hospitalization.)
Musicals In My Head One of the costars in that film was oscar levant. In those films, he playedthe self-tortured genius, (usually a pianist) he reminded me of a slightly http://www.musicalsinmyhead.com/index.php/weblog/C83/
Letters To Schoenberg: 1942 Langridge, Roy, I am a student of music and a pianist and am begin 1942.10.06,levant, oscar, Would three hundred dollars in addition to two hun http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/schoenberg/ltrto42.htm
Extractions: Letters from Schoenberg (arranged by date ; arranged by correspondent Letters to Schoenberg: 1942 Date Writer Writer's Company First line of letter Engel, Carl Thanks for letter fifteenth received this morning Greissle, Felix schon bevor wir Deinen Brief erhielten, hatten wir Kostal, Irwin Some time ago, you were kind enough to send me a c Langridge, Roy I am a student of music and a pianist and am begin You will find here the Concerto I have told you ab Greissle, Gertrud Many thanks for your gifts, for the boys as well a Greissle, Gertrud Reis, Claire R. League of Composers The League of Composers is now planning its very i LC There were received from you on January 5, with yo Am enclosing notes of Chorus[?] now in its period Mottram, H.M. Milwaukee Friends of Mus At a recent meeting of the Program Committee of th Reis, Claire R. League of Composers The League of Composers is delighted to have your Stein, Erwin I was delighted to receive your letter and to lear Janssen, Werner
An American In Paris and drinking cafés au lait in sidewalk bistros with his compatriot, a frustratedclassical pianist named Adam Cook (oscar levant, in fine comedic form). http://www.culturevulture.net/Movies3/AmericaninParis.htm
Extractions: Shot, ironically enough, on MGM sound stages in glorious Technicolor, An American In Paris won six Academy Awards in the year of its release (snatching Best Picture away from A Streetcar Named Desire cafés au lait in sidewalk bistros with his compatriot, a frustrated classical pianist named Adam Cook (Oscar Levant, in fine comedic form). The doll in question is Lisa Bouvier (Caron, only 19 at the time the film was made) and Jerry is so persistent in his pursuit of her (tricking her into giving him her phone number, showing up at her place of work) that for a while this looks like it's becoming the best musical ever made about stalking. But instead of calling the gendarmes
Extractions: var AID="09805072_1"; Oscar Levant is remembered chiefly for two things: his recordings of classical piano musicparticularly the works of his friend George Gershwinand his appearances as a lovably neurotic sidekick in several movies, among which the musicals An American in Paris and The Band Wagon are probably the best known. ...By the 1980's, the comic mode to which Levant gave impetus, and whose practitioners ranged from Lenny Bruce to Woody Allen, had degenerated into self-indulgence and belligerence... ...By the early 50's, both Levant's career and his life were beginning to fall apart... ...The authors make out Levant's life to be a painful, futile struggle of talent with selfdestructiveness, with the latter ultimately winning out... ...A strange kind of insecurity indeed... ...Encapsulating and recasting his experiences in book form in The Memoirs of an Amnesiac and The Unimportance of Being Oscar, Levant managed to hit the best-seller list twice again in his final creative brushes with fame... ...SUCH is the basic outline of a rich, complex, and truly surprising life, told well by the husband-and-wife team of Sam Kashner and Nancy Schoenberger...
Gershwin: Rememberence & Discovery the recently discovered Two Waltzes in C being one of oscar levant s favorites . Virgil Thomson once told me that levant was the only pianist who http://www.classical-music-review.org/reviews/Gershwin.htm
Extractions: Classical Music Review: New Releases George Gershwin - Rememberence and Discovery, Vol. 2. S'wonderful?; Funny Face; Maybe; Soon; I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise; But Not for Me; Someone to Watch Over Me; Who Cares?; Rialto Ripples; How Long Has This Been Going On ?; Jazzbo Brown Blues; For You, For Me, Forever More; Isn't It A Pity; Love is here to Stay; Rhapsody in Blue (solo). Richard Glazier, piano; Centaur CRC 2486. 63'31". American concert pianist Richard Glazier has a special affection for the Gershwin songbook he's loved American musicals from an early age and he communicates that in this program of 15 tunes, 10 of which are versions by arrangers like the recently renowned Artis Wodehose she masterminded Nonesuch's two piano roll CDs of Gershwin materialMaurice C. Whitney, and MGM house arranger Saul Chaplin (he performed those duties in the film of The Sound Of Music (1965).) Glazier evokes a perfect period feel in each number when that's called for especially in the first few and that's a large part of their charm, though his most impressive "interpretations" come in the "stylized by Stan Freeman" ones which are in the modern jazz idiom, and in Gershwin's "Jazzbo Brown Blues" which the composer originally intended as a solo piano opening to his folk opera Porgy and Bess (1934) its director Rouben Mamoulian (1898-1987), who helmed many famous Hollywood films includiing Garbo's
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Extractions: "La Musique pour les Oreilles du Monde" Recent Releases Browse All CD's Videos Specialty Items ... About Us Browse by Category: Saxophone Italian Love Songs Children's Stories Harmonica "George Gershwin Memorial Concert" Exactly as broadcast on CBS Radio from the Hollywood Bowl, Sept. 8, 1937 Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Forums > Piano Concertos levant playing everything in the Concerto (he really was the pianist). Sarah, in the movie, oscar levant plays the part of a struggling Concert http://forums.abrsm.org/lofiversion/index.php/t5529.html
Extractions: Yes, I'm familiar with the "Elvira Madigan" music. I forgot that. In all honesty, although I hear Mozart's Piano Concertos played a lot of the time, I'm not that familiar with any one in particular. Although beautiful sounding, at the risk of sounding a Philistine, to my ears, one Concerto does tend to sound like another when you dont know them very well. Possibly, Mozart suffers from having written too many Piano Concertos.
David Raksin His arrangement of Gershwin s I Got Rhythm for the pianist oscar levant soimpressed the composer that he recommended him to the firm of Hamms/Chappell, http://www.classical-composers.org/cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=raksin
Glbtq >> Arts >> Feinstein, Michael American pianist and singer Michael Feinstein has had a lifelong he boughtsome rare acetate recordings by oscar levant, a pianist who had been a close http://www.glbtq.com/arts/feinstein_m.html
Extractions: page: American pianist and singer Michael Feinstein has had a lifelong fascination with the popular music of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. He cites Al Jolson and Bing Crosby as his earliest musical influences, but among the most important were George and Ira Gershwin. An avid collector of their recordings since he was a boy, Feinstein became an archivist for Ira Gershwin, in which capacity he was able to study rare recordings and unpublished material by the Gershwins. A popular performer in clubs and on the concert tour, Feinstein has also put out twenty albums, two of which were nominated for Grammy awards. Sponsor Message. Feinstein was born in Columbus, Ohio"not exactly a hotbed of musical activity, especially for . . . show music," as he admitson September 7, 1956, already well after the heyday of the songwriters that he would come to admire. Music was a part of Feinstein's life from his earliest days. His father, Edward Feinstein, a meat salesman by trade, was a member of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America and took his young son along to the meetings. His mother, Florence Mae Cohen Feinstein, an amateur tap dancer, shared his father's "great passion for music," according to Feinstein.
Leopold Godowsky - Humor oscar levant, the pianist, composer, wit, actor and raconteur recalled in hisautobiographical volume Memoirs of an Amnesiac the occasion when a film http://www.godowsky.com/Biography/humor.html
Extractions: Wit and Wisdom selected by Jeremy Nicholas Many so-called humorous remarks by celebrated musicians fail to raise even a watery smile. Godowsky was well known for his waspish sense of humour and many of his witticisms and sagacious remarks have passed into musical folklore. Surprisingly, perhaps, the majority have stood the test of time and remain genuinely amusing. Among these is one of the most famous of all music-related anecdotes. You can find the full account of this story as the final item in this brief collection. Here for your enjoyment, in no particular order, are some of Godowsky's bon mots Oscar Levant, the pianist, composer, wit, actor and raconteur recalled in his autobiographical volume Memoirs of an Amnesiac the occasion when a film director asked him to include in a speech a quip made by Godowsky: "I don't like to go to concerts because if they're good, I'm jealous; if they're bad, I'm bored." (Levant actually refused to say the words unless he could attribute them to their author.) Godowsky moved with his family from Vienna to New York in 1914. Their first home was the Plaza Hotel. Bechstein provided Godowsky with two grands, replaced free of charge every year, and of course these had to be accommodated in his apartment. As the moving men panted and strained to move the two latest instruments, one of them paused in his efforts, mopped his brow and told their owner exactly what he thought of having to lug heavy concert grands about. "What are you complaining about?" laughed Godowsky. "You only have to move pianos. I have to move audiences."
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Oscar Levant underrated oscar levant, as Paul s chump buddy Sid, who was an astonishingpianist oscar levant as a down and out pianist also in love with Doris, http://oscar-levant.idoneos.com/
Extractions: In this book, the hypochondriac genius of movies, radio, television, and the concert stage delivers all the neurotic humor expected. But the author, a talented writer as well as one of the great pianists of the 20th century, also succeeds at conveying the ambience of the artistic world of the 1920s through 1950s. His insights about his contemporaries, including celebrated conductors, musicians, composers, and actors, are fascinating. Laughing All The Way To The Nuthouse... Luckily found this among my mother's books, the title caught my eye. When asked about it, my mother laughed softly. I thought, if it can make her laugh it must be funny; well it's the best humor, and I turned to a page and busted out laughing. It's more than that. I read the one I bought from time to time, and there is always a point of feeling I'm in the belly of a beast. Such integrity I'd never known, and never felt I could fit in this world 'til reading "Memoirs of an Amnesiac". marketplace information.
Film Music Recordings Reviews - April-May 1998 Humoresque, made by Warner Bros in 1946, starred Joan Crawford, John Garfieldand oscar levant. and the violinist s pianist friend and mentor (levant). http://www.musicweb-international.com/film/1998/apr98/april-my.htm
Extractions: Music Webmaster Len Mullenger FILM MUSIC RECORDINGS REVIEWS April 1998 Three intriguing and artistically satisfying albums centred around violinists:- EDITOR'S CHOICE - FILM MUSIC CD OF THE MONTH - April-May 1998 Franz WAXMAN Humoresque - music for the Warner Bros film Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (violin); Judy Blazer (vocals) and Leslie Stifelman (piano) with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Litton Nonesuch 7559-79464-2 [59:37] Crotchet Humoresque, made by Warner Bros in 1946, starred Joan Crawford, John Garfield and Oscar Levant. It was a story about a classical violinist (Garfield) totally, ruthlessly dedicated to his career; the alcoholic, thrice-married socialite (Crawford) who sponsors him but whose love for him brings her only despair and suicide; and the violinist's pianist friend and mentor (Levant). Waxman's arrangements of many classical works won him an Academy Award nomination. After Warners failed to contract Heifetz to the film, it was Waxman who persuaded a young Isaac Stern to play the violin on the soundtrack (in fact it is Stern's hands, arms and violin that can be seen in the numerous insert shots during performances; many of the shots were done in such a way that Stern was able to crouch beneath him and put his own fingers on the fingerboard). The album contains Waxman's exciting and often sensuous transcriptions for violin and orchestra, for the film: the
