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	1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (musical) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, a musical with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Leonard Bernstein, was a legendary Broadway flop in 1976, running only seven performances at the Mark Hellinger Theatre.
		The musical examined the establishment of the White House and its occupants from 1800 to1900.
		The score is considered by many musical theater historians and aficionados to be a forgotten, or at least neglected, masterpiece.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1600_Pennsylvania_Avenue_(musical) (751 words)

	A White House Cantata
		A musical conducted tour of the Presidential headquarters, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (the White House's address) had a troubled tour en route to New York in 1976.
		The fact that 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is a musical is sidelined, but the transformation is nonsensical.
		It was the composer's first musical since West Side Story, and he wrote much more music for it than he had for any earlier musical (over two hours of it, reduced here to a generous 80 minutes).
	www.musical-theatre.net /html/cdreviews/whitehouse.html (1547 words)

	NewMusicBox
		As a case in point, witness a striking photo of David Del Tredici shaking hands with The Gipper in 1984: the composer whose current project for the San Francisco Symphony is entitled Gay Life meeting the President who couldn't bring himself to mention the word ‘AIDS' in public until 1987.
		After the country's military coup in 1967, one of the first things the incoming dictatorship did was ban his music.
		"For music to have a public platform," he says, "a composer has to speak to the audience in the condition they are in at the time, to their historic, economic, cultural position."
	www.newmusicbox.org /page.nmbx?id=18tp03 (1291 words)

	White House - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States.
		The White House is a white-painted, neoclassical sandstone mansion located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. 38° 53′51″N, 77° 02′12″W).
		As the office of the President of the United States, the term "White House" is often used as a metonym for the president's administration.
	www.voyager.in /White_House (2479 words)

	Bernstein's Studio - News Items - White House Cantata Program Notes
		Musically, this is a catchy march, peppered with motifs heard throughout the rest of the score.
		The historic episodes presented in the musical play concerned periods in the first century of the United States when the office of the presidency was in jeopardy, or when the White House itself was about to be physically destroyed.
		1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (which, by the way, is the street address for the White House) alternated those assaults on the presidential office with a story concerning slavery in the United States.
	www.leonardbernstein.com /events/news/linernotes.asp (1034 words)

	White House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the musical, see 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (musical).
		The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States of America.
		The White House is a white-painted, neoclassical sandstone mansion located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. As the office of the U.S. President, the term "White House" is often used as a metonym for the president's administration.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1600_Pennsylvania_Avenue (1943 words)

	Librarian's Lobby October 2004 -- Musical Theater"J"?
		For classical music it was the day we lost our greatest composer, conductor, influential teacher, of the most accomplished pianists, and one of the most famous Jewish-American musicians.
		A musical may have 10’s or 100’s of manifestations such as sound or video recordings of performances, sheet music, scripts, song books, or selections.
		Even though some musicals end on sad notes (the main characters die in West Side Story and the characters get expelled from their homes in Fiddler on the Roof) audiences tend to remember to happy songs and feelings from the shows.
	home.earthlink.net /~ddstuhlman/crc75.htm (1155 words)

	classical music CDs
		Leonard Bernstein's A White House Cantata: Scenes From 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, is the concert adaptation of the musical by the same name, which the two Americans had written between 1972 and 1976.
		The musical's subtitle, a musical about the problems of housekeeping, makes clear that the composition is not a boring history lesson about the first one hundred years of the White House, but an entertaining piece which highlights episodes about the building and its inhabitants.
		People who are stressed by today's hectic life, nervous video clips and pop music will not only enjoy the music in its interpretation by Jacob Heringman, but also find a moment to relax and recharge their batteries.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo10/classics10.htm (928 words)

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		In the orchestral music department, there is a new recording of Charles Ives' Symphony No. 2, which is the first-ever recording of a new critical edition prepared for the Ives Society, and a collection of recent orchestral works by Michigan-based composer Will Gay Bottje.
		And, the music of Steven Gerber is the focus of not one, but two, new recordings devoted to his concertos and other orchestral works.
		I would also include a new retrospective disc devoted to music by Elodie Lauten in this category as well because her revolutionary music is still too frequently overlooked when there are assessments made of American music of the past three decades.
	www.newmusicbox.org /soundtracks/oct00/home.html (405 words)

	Playbill Features: ON THE RECORD: Bway Surprises from Bernstein and Menotti
		There was no such movement to preserve 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue; by the time the show limped in from its tryout, the authors seemed to have vanished in embarrassment.
		He was not so credited on his other two Broadway musicals, Wonderful Town and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, which implies that he did not contribute to the orchestrations of these two scores.
		1600 Pennsylvania Avenue - presumably the finest score for a one week failure since Anyone Can Whistle — was unusual and impossible, but it was the only thing Bernstein chose to give Broadway between 1957 and his death in 1990.
	www.playbill.com /features/article/66363.html (2908 words)

	Boosey & Hawkes Making Music
		A new suite of music from Leonard Bernstein's musical 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue receives its premiere on 25 April at Carnegie Hall, performed by the New York Pops Orchestra conducted by Charles Prince.
		Charlie Harmon was music editor for the Bernstein Estate between 1989 and 1999.
		The music in the suite is played without pause, though the first two sections could easily be excerpted and played as independent encores.
	www.boosey.com /pages/making/news/further_info.asp?newsid=10543 (255 words)

	Classical Net Review - Bernstein - A White House Cantata
		1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, a musical by Bernstein with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, opened and closed on Broadway after an embarrassingly short run, if we consider the star-power of those two names.
		Some of the music or at least some of the musical ideas found their way into other works, notably Songfest and the Divertimento.
		It's the music that engages us, that invests these placards with surprising humanity, that turns an elementary civics and history lesson into something we have to care about.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/d/dgg63448a.html (667 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Living / Arts / Bernstein's Broadway, the road not taken
		When you look at the timeline of musical theater, it was the lyricist, Sondheim, who would go on to rewrite the rules of the genre.
		His predecessors were artists whose music had grown out of the Jewish immigration and assimilation experience of the first half of the 20th century.
		To wonder what would have happened to the musical if it had followed in Bernstein's more upbeat tracks is not idle speculation, because in a sense, for reasons both cultural and economic, the genre has come back toward him.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2003/10/26/bernsteins_broadway_the_road_not_taken?mode=PF (1333 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Bernstein: A White House Cantata: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Bernstein's musical voice is as American as pumpkin pie or Hershey Bars.
		It took a certain audacity to think that a musical on the story of the first hundred years of the White House and the abolition of slavery acted out as a rehearsal would work on stage.
		It's a clever, biting work of great musical charm and all praise to DG, Nagano and the LSO for bringing it finally to a wider audience.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004VU0I (777 words)

	One More Kiss: The Broadway Musical in the 1970s - Celebrity Ltd. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		There's plenty to admire in Ethan Mordden's series of books about the art and craft of American musical theatre, and examples of some of the best of it can be found in his most recent volume, One More Kiss: The Broadway Musicals of the 1970s.
		His writing style is opinionated, yes, but also neat, with an incredible number of facts, and plenty of references to his exquisite knowledge of matters both musical and theatrical.
		One More Kiss, the Broadway musical in the 1970s, is the most personal of all the volumes.
	www.celebtop1000.com /ItemId/031223953X (929 words)

	WFIU: Directions in Sound
		The music is recorded live at the historic Landing Jazz Club on San Antonio's historic Riverwalk-one of the most popular and longest-running jazz venues in the U.S. In this program The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and guests salute Fats Waller on the 100th anniversary of his birth.
		Music from Psalm 90, written by the quintessentially American Yankee composer Charles Ives, gives the program a nostalgic quality, as does the dreamy, lyrical sound scape of James Hopkins' Songs of Eternity.
		They converge at the IU School of Music for the USA International Harp Competition, where they compete for chances to catapult their careers, secure concert engagements and recording contracts, and perform with some of the world's most prestigious orchestras.
	www.iub.edu /~wfiu/artjuly_2004.htm (3687 words)

	A Fine and Private Place- a musical fantasy
		His most recent work, a musical version of Edith Wharton's novel SUMMER, with music by Paul Schwartz, was selected to receive a National Endowment for the Arts New American Works grant and won a Richard Rodgers Development Award.
		It was chosen as one of nine musicals (culled from 186 entries from 16 countries) to be showcased in the International Festival of Musical Theatre's "Sony Global Search for New Musicals" Cardiff, Wales in October/November of 2002.
		Erik devised the musical revue TAKING A CHANCE ON LOVE: The Lyrics and Life of John Latouche, which played to considerable critical acclaim off-Broadway at The York Theatre Company in February/March of 2000 and was subsequently recorded by Original Cast Records.
	www.afandpp.com /erikbio.html (487 words)

	Knitting Circle Leonard Bernstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		He was educated at Harvard, the Curtis Institute of Music in Philidelphia, and the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood.
		From 1945 to 1947 he was music director of the New York City Symphony Orchestra.
		In the same year he took the orchestra to the Soviet Union and played his second symphony The Age of Anxiety, which was inspired by the poem of the same title by W.
	myweb.lsbu.ac.uk /stafflag/leonardbernstein.html (642 words)

	Variety-THEATRE-Critics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		No original musical or revival written by the esteemed lyricist-composer has received the across-the-board raves awarded "The Producers" or "Hairspray." "Mamma Mia!" may be pushing the point, but then, what Sondheim tuner ever got the money notices ("You'll enjoy yourself!") that were showered on that show?
		But after seeing those two musicals in previews, you had to endure the reviews, which too often read "ambitious but failed" or "ambitious but unsatisfying" in so many words.
		And "Sweeney Todd" broke the cardinal rule of musical theater when its hero sings ("Pretty Women") rather than seizing the moment to kill his nemesis.
	www.cp.org /english/online/full/Variety/041213/1121320AU.html (916 words)

	Great Performances: Free To Dance - Biographies - George Faison
		In 1974 he choreographed "The Wiz," the successful all-fl musical retelling of THE WIZARD OF OZ Faison won a Tony Award for his choreography, the first for an African American in that category.
		By the mid-1970s the George Faison Universal Dance Experience had disbanded, and Faison was choreographing music concerts for such artists as Stevie Wonder; Earth, Wind and Fire; and Gladys Knight and the Pips.
		Faison has choreographed more than 30 plays and musicals, including the short-lived Broadway musical "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" (1967) with music by Leonard Bernstein; a Radio City Music Hall production of "Porgy and Bess" (1983); and "Sing, Mahalia, Sing" (1985) at the Shubert Theater in Philadelphia.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/freetodance/biographies/faison.html (418 words)

	A House Undivided
		1600 finally opened on Broadway that May to unanimous pans and closed after seven performances.
		Lerner thereafter referred to the show as "the Titanic," and a heartbroken Bernstein refused to allow a cast recording.
		Yet while the story is weak, the music is sophisticated and passionate, whether martial (the catchy "President Jefferson Sunday Luncheon Party March"), reverential ("Take Care of This House") or comic ("The Grand Old Party").
	www.citypaper.net /articles/110200/mus.leonard.shtml (345 words)

	Reviews
		Mordden begins the study with a relatively clear thesis: that between economic challenges and the change in American music that shifted attention away from Broadway, the Broadway theater in the 1970s went through a period of rapid decline that marked the end of the Broadway musical as a major part of American culture.
		This sort of musical theory is both welcome and necessary to understanding the history of the Broadway musical, but it does limit the book’s audience to those who have enough musical background to follow Mordden’s arguments.
		Mordden’s complaint that Bernstein and Lerner wrote a musical influenced by this movement is absurd.
	www.cercles.com /review/r14/mordden0204R.htm (1483 words)

	Zip Goes A Million
		Leonard Bernstein is forever remembered by West Side Story, but his superb musical biography of the White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, seems destined to remain a footnote in musical history.
		It was fitting, then, that Stewart Nicholls, that untiring soldier of the lost British musical, should - in Maschwitz's centenary year - choose one of the team's most famous collaborations as the opening production in the new series of Lost British Musicals at the Theatre Museum.
		Gavin Lee, musical director and pianist, extracts performances and a quality of sound that is another of the evening's miracles.
	www.musical-theatre.net /html/reviews/zip.html (1050 words)

	BBC - Radio 3 - Daily Schedule
		Humphrey Burton presents excerpts from Mass (1971), the Jerome Robbins ballet the Dybbuk (1974) and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (1976), Bernstein's ill-fated collaboration with Alan Jay Lerner.
		Among today's guests are the composer's daughter, Jamie Bernstein Thomas, who has performed in Mass, and Patricia Routledge, who played the First Lady in the original production of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, which she described as a diamond studded dinosaur.
		We hear moon music by Trevor Duncan, Billy Reid and Lionel Monckton, and Andrew Penny conducts the RTE Concert Orchestra in Archibald Joyce's Caravan Suite.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/schedule/2005/06/02/day (531 words)

	MUSICMATCH Guide: Leonard Bernstein
		During his sometimes rocky tenure (1958-69) as music director of New York Philharmonic, Bernstein brought that ensemble to a new level of prestige and popularity: every Bernstein concert and recording became a much-anticipated event.
		Among the first group of students to receive training at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, Bernstein soon became the institution's guiding light, serving as teacher and mentor for generations of musicians.
		Little of Bernstein's music from the 1970s on has attained the same level of popularity achieved by his earlier works; still, it comprises a distinguished, substantial body of work that includes the Mass (1971), the opera A Quiet Place (1983) and the song cycle Arias and Barcarolles (1988).
	www.mmguide.musicmatch.com /artist/artist.cgi?ARTISTID=1088190&TMPL=LONG (1499 words)

	Sheet Music publication - Take Care of This House (from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue)
		Sheet Music publication - Take Care of This House (from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue)
		In the unlikely event it is not currently available, we will advise you by e-mail.
		Sheet music is supplied on a firm sale basis and is not returnable except in the case of error or damage.
	music.netstoreusa.com /004/HL00450042.shtml (218 words)

	The Songs That Got Away CD Review
		Even at this stage of her career, Sarah was showing prowess as an opera singer, and this is a good indication of what was soon to follow.
		It's hard to imagine that this musical was not popular, but I guess it's not just the music that makes a successful production.
		This is an album of songs that came from musicals that never quite reached any level of popularity.
	www.mts.net /~jiverson/sarah/pages/stga.html (730 words)

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