1994, ISBN: 9780385423458

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New York, et al. : Doubleday/ A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. , 1994. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7&fr… Mehr…

New York, et al. : Doubleday/ A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. , 1994. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. Marysarah Quinn (Book Design); Herschel Levit (Front Cover Photo); Erik Victor (Spine Photo); Dan Weiner (Back Cover Photo); Mario J. Pulice (Jacket Design). 594 + viii pp. Stated first printing of the first edition! Over-sized and/or over weight book; may require additional postage. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur extra shipping charge for both domestic and/or international shipments. Solidly and tightly bound copy and dust jacket with moderate external wear with crisp pages and clean text. Dust jacket suffers additional bruises around edges. Synopsis: Flamboyant composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), who was America's ambassador to the world of serious music for most of his jam-packed life, has long needed a sober, well-researched and encompassing biography, and this is it. There have been tactful hagiographies (John Gruen), malicious deconstructions (Joan Peyser) and ambivalent inside stories (Burton Bernstein); but Burton, a British TV producer who knew Bernstein well but was no acolyte, has created, with the aid of family archives, a wealth of interviews and an interested lay person's sound musical knowledge, a full-length study unlikely to be surpassed. It is in many ways a tragic story, not of genius unrecognized - if anything Bernstein was overpraised in his life, both as composer and conductor - but of a protean nature overcome by the demands of celebrity status and an overweening ego. From the start "Lenny" was a determinedly colorful character, insistent on the limelight, extravagant of gesture and emotion. Whether he could have become a great composer, rather than a highly talented musical entertainer whose best-remembered work remains his Broadway musicals, will never be known; for his whole professional life was an agonized tightrope walk between the frenzies of adulation that greeted his conducting and his guilty sense that he was betraying his creative gift by not spending more time in the workroom., Doubleday/ A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1994, 2.75<

ISBN: 9780385423458

Paperback. Very Good., 3