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The Bernstein Project
Project Artistic Director Marin Alsop curates this season-long project celebrating the great icon of 20th-century music making, Leonard Bernstein, including performances, talks and workshops.
Visit our dedicated minisite for The Bernstein Project.
Listen to two specially commissioned The Bernstein Project podcasts by daughter Jamie Bernstein and the famed musician's assistant (1985 - 1990) Craig Urquhart. A personal and intimate look into Bernstein's life, genius and discipline:
- Download Jamie Bernstein interview (24' 03", mp3)
- Download Craig Urquhart interview (20' 16", mp3)
Events in this series
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The Clore Ballroom
The West Side Story Experience: Part 4
Sunday 21 March 2010
A day of musical theatre workshops led by leading voice coach Mary King and top theatre choreographers.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Friday 26 March 2010
Psappha, one of Britain's leading new music ensembles, presents Bernstein's first foray into music theatre, his one-act operatic masterpiece Trouble in Tahiti.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Wednesday 7 April 2010
More than any composer before him, Leonard Bernstein blurred the lines between high art and popular music.
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The Clore Ballroom
Harmonie Concert Band & Lewisham Concert Band Double Bill
Saturday 10 April 2010
Two of the South East's most highly regarded wind bands come together for a concert celebrating some of Bernstein's most well known and lesser known repertoires and influences.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Tuesday 13 April 2010
The Nash Ensemble, one of the world's great chamber groups, bring a programme of American masters to the International Chamber Music Season.
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Purcell Room
Sunday 18 April 2010
Four days before Marin Alsop's performance of Shostakovich's symphony No.5 and Bernstein's symphony No.2 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra here at Southbank Centre, a showing of the extraordin
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Level 5 Function Room
The Auden Influence: Age of Anxiety
Sunday 18 April 2010
Set in a New York bar during the Second World War, WH Auden's 'The Age of Anxiety' won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1948.
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Royal Festival Hall
Wednesday 21 April 2010
A concert in celebration of Leonard Bernstein.
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Purcell Room
Saturday 1 May 2010
The Joyful Company of Singers is celebrating its 21st anniversary season in 2010 - many of the choir’s early performances were given in the Purcell Room and featured readings of poetry and prose to
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Royal Festival Hall
Sunday 9 May 2010
Marin Alsop conducts Gustav Mahler's great Resurrection Symphony in homage to Mahler's profound influence on Leonard Bernstein.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Diversity Choir: Bernstein, A 20th-Century Reflection
Monday 7 June 2010
The Chichester Psalms, a choral piece, is one of Bernstein’s most overtly Jewish works. More than any composer before him, Bernstein blurred the lines between high art and popular music. The score, commissioned in 1965 by Chichester Cathedral in England, was drawn almost entirely from cut numbers in Broadway shows (including West Side Story). Performed by the 40-strong London LGBT chamber choir, Diversity.Supported by Making Music, the UK's leading umbrella organisation for voluntary music.
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Purcell Room
Friday 2 July 2010
Brian Greene, Professor of Physics and Mathematics at Columbia University makes a rare appearance in the UK, delivering a special illustrated talk accessible for all, on unified theories and parall
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Saturday 3 July 2010
Marcus du Sautoy, Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, gives this special lecture on the relationship between maths and music.
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Royal Festival Hall
Saturday 10 July 2010 - Sunday 11 July 2010
The nine-month long Bernstein Project draws to a conclusion in a rare performance of one of Bernstein's most astonishing pieces.
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