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13 results found for '"Leonard Bernstein"' in Person.
West Side Story (2021 Film)
- Director
- Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg’s period film adaptation, set in the 1950s, of the stage musical by Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim and Jerome Robbins that was inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and...
Friday Night is Music Night [10/06/2011] (2011 Radio)
- Series
- Friday Night is Music Night
Radio programme celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Royal Shakespeare Company with music written for Shakespearean adaptations in film, theatre, ballet and opera. Includes soliloquys performed by members...
Iain Burnside [20/04/2008] (2008 Radio)
aka: Shakespeare’s Birthday
- Series
- Iain Burnside
Radio broadcast. To mark Shakespeare’s 444th birthday, pianist and presenter Iain Burnside presents music inspired by Shakespeare and talks to guest Nicholas Hytner, director. The playlist ranges from...
Tonight Tonight, It’s West Side Story Night (2007 Radio)
aka: Something’s Coming From West Side to World Wide
- Producer
- Emma Kingsley
Radio documentary. As part of a three-hour tribute celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bernstein’s musical, two documentary programmes look at the origins of the musical, how it made its way to Broadway,...
Shakespeare and Friends [30/10/2006] (2006 Radio)
- Series
- Afternoon Performance
First concert in a week’s series of BBC Radio 3 ‘Afternoon Performances’ dedicated to showcasing music written for and inspired by the works of Shakespeare and other literary authors. The...
West Side Story Suite (1995 Video)
Video recording of a performance by the New York City Ballet of the suite by Jerome Robbins derived from ‘West Side Story’. Taped with a single camera from a fixed wide-angle position at the New York...
Showtime for Shakespeare (1994 Radio)
- Producer
- Dave Tate
Radio broadcast. 4-part weekly series, presented by Patrick Martyn, showcasing contemporary musical adaptations inspired by Shakespeare. The pieces examined range from popular musicals such as Kiss Me Kate...
Making of West Side Story, The (1985 Radio)
- Series
- Anything Goes
- Director
- Paul Lazarus; Leonard Bernstein
Radio series, hosted by Paul Lazarus, celebrating the American musical theatre. This programme includes excerpts from a Dramatists Guild symposium with panelists Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein, Arthur...
Leonard Bernstein Conducts’West Side Story’ (1985 Television)
- Series
- Omnibus
- Director
- Christopher Swann
- Producer
- Humphrey Burton
Television documentary that follows conductor Leonard Bernstein as he records, over four days, the first complete recording of West Side Story. Filmed in a New York recording studio with a pick-up orchestra,...
Many Faces of Romeo and Juliet, The (1967 Television)
- Series
- Bell Telephone Hour, The
- Director
- Clark Jones
- Producer
- Dan Launsbery
Musical series featuring classical and Broadway music. This episode presents four versions of the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet performed in the theatre, opera (Gounod), ballet (Prokofiev) and the...