BERNSTEIN AT 60: AN APPRECIATION: LIVE FROM WOLF TRAP (TV)
Summary
This music and dance special celebrates conductor/musician Leonard Bernstein's 60th birthday in a live performance from Wolf Trap Farm Park in Virginia. Joel Grey hosts the tribute and introduces Mstislav Rostropovich conducting The National Symphony Orchestra in Stravinsky's "Greeting Prelude." William Schuman introduces the evening; Rostopovoch conducts The National Symphony Orchestra in excerpts from Bernstein's musical score to "On the Waterfront"; Aaron Copland conducts The National Symphony Orchestra in the "Lamentation" from "Jeremiah" Symphony No.1 with Christa Ludwig as soloist; Lukas Foss conducts and is soloist with The National Symphony Orchestra in Bernstein's "The Masque" from "The Age of Anxiety" Symphony No. 2; Christian Badea conducts The National Symphony Orchestra in Bernstein's "Songfest: A Cycle of American Poems for Six Singers and Orchestra"; "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed" by Edna St. Vincent Millay and "Israfel" by Edgar Allan Poe are performed by Ludwig, Susan Davenny Wyner, Rosalind Elias, Neil Rosenshein, John Reardon, and Donald Gramm; and Grey talks with Rostropovich about Bernstein's place in music history and interviews Christa Ludwig; Lauren Bacall introduces Bernstein's theater works and introduces John Mauceri, who conducts The National Symphony Orchestra; Daniel Fortus, Leroy Reams, and Treat Williams sing "New York, New York" and "I Can Cook, Too"; Lenora Nemetz and Laurence Guittard sing "Lonely Town."
The National Symphony Orchestra performs "Ballet at the Vortex" from "Wonderful Town"; Betty Comden sings "One Hundred Easy Ways to Lose a Man"; Phyllis Newman and Adolph Green sing "Wrong Note Rag"; Stephen Bogardus sings "Something's Coming" from "West Side Story"; The National Symphony Orchestra plays "The Dance at the Gym"; Jossie De Guzman and Stephen Bogardus sing "Tonight"; David Morgan sings "A Simple Song" from "Mass"; the Norman Scribner Choir performs "Almighty Father"; Gianna Rolandi sings "Glitter and Be Gay" from "Candide"; Jossie De Guzman and Stephen Bogardus sing "Make Our Garden Grow"; Grey and BBC commentator Humphrey Burton talks with Bernstein about this celebration of his; William Schuman talks with Jerome Robbins about his relationship with Bernstein; Grey interviews Betty Comden and Adolph Green about their relationship with Bernstein; Lillian Hellman pays tribute to Bernstein; and Bernstein conducts The National Symphony Orchestra with Andre Previn (piano), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), and Yehudi Menuhin (violin) in the first movement of Beethoven's Triple Concerto in C Major, Opus 56. Rostropovich presents Bernstein with an honorary membership in The National Symphony Orchestra; and the orchestra plays "Happy Birthday to You" for Bernstein.
Sponsored by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, public television stations, Allied Chemical Corporation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. (There is a brief overlap of the conclusion of T85:0540 at the beginning of this tape.)
Details
- NETWORK: PBS
- DATE: August 25, 1978 08:30 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:00:00
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T85:0538
- GENRE: Music
- SUBJECT HEADING: Music - Analysis, appreciation; Orchestral music; Wolf Trap Farm Park
- SERIES RUN: PBS - TV, 1978
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- David Griffiths … Executive Producer
- Hal Hutkoff … Supervising Producer
- Roger Englander … Producer, Director
- Sam Paul … Associate Producer
- Jan Hatcher … Associate Producer
- Betty Lanson Katzner … Associate Producer
- Joel Grey … Host
- Edgar Allan Poe … Writer
- Edna St. Vincent Millay … Writer
- Igor Stravinsky … Composer
- Ludwig van Beethoven … Composer
- Leonard Bernstein … Composer, Honoree
- Mstislav Rostropovich … Conductor
- Aaron Copland … Conductor
- Christian Badea … Conductor
- John Mauceri … Conductor
- Lukas Foss … Conductor, Performer
- The National Symphony Orchestra … Symphony Orchestra
- Norman Scribner Choir … Choir
- Yehudi Menuhin … Instrumentalist
- Andre Previn … Instrumentalist
- Christa Ludwig … Performer
- Susan Davenny Wyner … Performer
- Rosalind Elias … Performer
- Neil Rosenshein … Performer
- John Reardon … Performer
- Donald Gramm … Performer
- Leroy Reams … Performer
- Daniel Fortus … Performer
- Treat Williams … Performer
- Laurence Guittard … Performer
- Lenora Nemetz … Performer
- Phyllis Newman … Performer
- Betty Comden … Performer
- Adolph Green … Performer
- Stephen Bogardus … Performer
- Jossie de Guzman … Performer
- David Morgan … Performer
- Gianna Rolandi … Performer
- William Schuman … Guest
- Lauren Bacall … Guest
- Humphrey Burton … Guest
- Jerome Robbins … Guest
- Lillian Hellman … Guest