Leonard Bernstein’s Legacy: An Interview with Alexander Bernstein

30 November 2018 seminal ideas remain worthy of study and emulation and are indeed vital today (Cook Glen Overview). Expand article Alexander Bernstein Interview at the Music, Business, and Peace Summit, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, May 12th, 2017. Interview by...

Introduction to Alexander Bernstein Interview: A Bernstein Revolution

30 November 2018 remain worthy of study and emulation and are indeed vital today. The interview was part of a presentation given by Alexander Bernstein at the Music, Business, and Peace Summit on May 12th, 2017. Leonard Bernstein was as practical as he was idealistic...

". . . Our Daily Bread"

01 October 1972 There is a greater need than pianoforte teachers and singing teachers, and that is a numerous company of writers and talkers who shall teach the people how to listen to music so that it shall not pass through their heads like a vast tonal...

Not Without a Grievance: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the Suffrage Movement, and the Reception of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

01 October 2024 Abstract In an 1882 article in the American suffrage newspaper, The Woman’s Journal, Thomas Wentworth Higginson expressed outrage that the Mendelssohn family had discouraged Fanny Hensel from composing and that her music had been published under Felix...

Overview to Music, Business, and Peace

30 November 2018 and its role in social-political arenas. The second contribution to this special issue centers on an interview with Alexander Bernstein, son of Leonard Bernstein. Alexander and his siblings have worked to carry on their father’s legacy through the...

Women Orchestral Conductors in America: The Struggle for Acceptance—An Historical View from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

01 October 1998 Introduction Orchestral conducting has been the latest door of opportunity to open for women in the field of music. Although women have been actively involved in performance, composition, teaching, and patronage from the history of the ancient Greeks...

The Renaissance of Sir Arthur Sullivan

01 October 1981 When the authoritative work on unjustly neglected composers is written, a prominent chapter will surely have to be devoted to Victorian England's Wunderkind, Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900). Despite the fact that he is one of the very few British composers...

Tempo Choices in Mozart’s Minuets: Considerations from a Conductor’s Point of View

09 November 2023 Abstract This article focuses on the two main types of minuets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—Tempo di Menuetto and Menuetto Allegretto—that appear in his symphonic works and in his pieces for dance accompaniment. Drawing on primary sources by Johann...