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📚 Sources/further reading:
“Leonard Bernstein” by Humphrey Burton (Doubleday, 1994)
“The Joy of Music” by Leonard Bernstein (Doubleday, 1959)
“Leonard Bernstein's Piano Music: A Comparative Study of Selected Works” by Leann Osterkamp, 2018 (DMA Dissertation, City University of New York): https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/vi...
“Modeling Compositional Grammars in Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story (1957)” by Thomas William Posen, 2016 (Master’s Thesis, University of New Mexico): https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi...
“An Analysis of the Effectiveness of Individual Dramatic and Musical Elements in the 1956, 1973 and 1988 Versions of Leonard Bernstein's Candide” by Leanne Pettit, 2009 (DMA Dissertation, Louisiana State University): https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cgi/vi...
“Leonard Bernstein’s Jewish Boston: Cross-Disciplinary Research in the Classroom” by Carol J. Oja and Kay Kaufman Shelemay, 2009 (Journal of the Society for American Music): https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/ha...
“The Contributions of Leonard Bernstein to Music Education: An Analysis of His 53 Young People's Concerts” by Brian David Rozen, 1997 (PhD Dissertation, Eastman School of Music)
“Convergences Between Leonard Bernstein’s On the Town (1944) and Wonderful Town (1953) and his Contemporary Concert Music” by Hsun Lin, 2013 (PhD Dissertation, University of Kansas)
“The Power of Gaze in Music. Leonard Bernstein’s Conducting Eyes” by Isabella Poggi et al. (Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, May 2020)
“Leonard Bernstein Through His Daughter’s Eyes” by David Denby (The New Yorker, 2018): https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...
https://www.brandeis.edu/bernstein-10...
https://blogs.wdav.org/2018/10/tom-co...

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Classical Nerd is a video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.

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Music:

- Leonard Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story,” arranged for two pianos and percussion, performed by Dubravka Vukalovic, Bruno Vlahek, Ami Rossier, Jan Beauge, and Sébastien Aegerter [free recording courtesy pianosociety.com]
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
- Leonard Bernstein: “I Hate Music!” from I Hate Music: A cycle of Five Kid Songs for Soprano and Piano (1943), performed by Bonnie Blackwell and Benjamin Blozan [original upload: BlhSqbMNHVA, used with permission of Bonnie Blackwell]
- Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 9, Mvts. III and IV, performed by the University of Chicago Orchestra conducted by Barbara Schubert and available on IMSLP: https://tinyurl.com/y7m8eyjk​

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