Playlist for the Unpopular Music Webcast for August 25, 2018

Today we present a program marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein is a primary influence on me, having demonstrated that different musics can live together in the same mind, even in the same music. We present today a sampling his work - his own music where he brings the concert world to the popular (ie Broadway) stage; where he brings elements of that stage (and the jazz sound-world) to his concert works. We have some jazz and rock interpretations of his works and a couple of the Maestro's benchmark interpretations of symphonic works.


See the playlist after the break...

artist	title	album	comments	label / date
Katie Lee	Real Sick Sounds	Songs of Couch and Consultation	1st part of theme	Commentary Records 1957
Naked City	Inside Straight	Naked City	2nd part of theme	Nonesuch Records 1989
Tad Calcara / New World Symphony / Michael Tilson Thomas	Prelude, Fugue and Riffs	New World Jazz	composition by Leonard Bernstein commissioned, but never performed by Woody Herman,	RCA 1998
Bill Evans	Some Other Time	The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961	Bill Evans (p) Scott LaFaro (b) Paul Motian (d) song by Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and Adolph Green originally on Waltz for Debby	Riverside 1961
Dave Brubeck Quartet	Tonight	Play music from West Side Story and...	Dave Brubeck (p) Paul Desmond (as) Eugene Wright (b) Joe Morello (d) song by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim	Columbia Jazz Masterpieces 1960
Wayne Horvitz	This New Generation	This New Generation	music behind DJ	Nonesuch 1985
Leonard Bernstein	Mass - A theater piece for singers, players and dancers - II: First Introit (Rondo)	Mass - A theater piece for singers, players and dancers	Maurice Peress (musical director) Norman Scribner Choir, Berkshire Boy Choir text from the liturgy of the Roman Mass	Columbia 1971
Samuel Krachmalnick / Candide Pit Orchestra	Candide - Act I: Paris Waltz	Candide (Original Broadway Cast recording)	music by Leonard Bernstein	Columbia 1956
Leonard Bernstein / New York Philharmonic	Third Symphony - IV: Molto deliberato	Copland - Third Symphony	composition by Aaron Copland	Columbia 1966
Leonard Bernstein / Ensemble	The Real Coney Island from On the Town	A Total Embrace – The Composer	music by Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and Adolph Green from the original Broadway cast recording	Sony Classical 1958
Spaceheads	Trip to the Moon	Trip to the Moon EP	music behind DJ	Electric Brass 2014
Rosalind Russell / Ensemble	Conga! from Wonderful Town	A Total Embrace – The Composer	music by Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and Adolph Green from the original Broadway cast recording	Sony Classical 1958
Casiokids	En Vill Hest (Prins Thomas Remix) [edit]	Topp stemning på lokal bar	music behind DJ	Polyvinyl 2010
Buddy Rich	West Side Story (Overture-Cool-Something's Coming-Somewhere)	The Best of Buddy Rich: The Pacific Jazz Years	Buddy Rich (d) Gene Quill (as, clt) Peter Yellin (as, flt) Jay Corre (solo), Martin Flax (ts clt, flt) Stephen Perlow (bs, bclt) Robert Shew, John Sottile, Yoshito Murakami, Walter Battegello (trp) Jim Trimble (solo), John Boice (tbn) Dennis Good, Mike Waverley (b tbn) John Bunch (p) Barry Zweig (g) Carson Smith (b) music by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim Arranged by Bill Reddie	Blue Note 1966
Leonard Bernstein / New York Philharmonic	Symphony No. 5 in c-sharp minor: Part III - IV: Adagietto. Sehr langsam	Mahler - The Complete Symphonies	music by Gustav Mahler	Sony Classical 1963
Lucas Foss / New York Philharmonic / Leonard Bernstein	The Age of Anxiety - Symphony No. 2, for piano and orchestra, after W. H. Auden - Part II (a. The Dirge, b. The Masque, c. The Epilogue)	The Age of Anxiety - Serenade after Plato's "Symposium"	music by Leonard Bernstein after the poem by W. H. Auden	Sony Classical 1950
Jane Ira Bloom	Somewhere	Early Americans	song by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim	Outline 2003
Yo La Tengo	Georgia vs. To La Tengo	Summer Sun	music behind DJ	Matador 2003
The Nice	America (Second Amendment)	Elegy	Keith Emerson (keys) Lee Jackson (b, g, voc) Brian Davison (d) song by Leonard Bernstein / Stephen Sondheim, arranged by Keith Emerson recorded live at the Fillmore East	Mercury 1969