Photo Coverage: Author Carol J. Oja & More Celebrate Release of BERNSTEIN MEETS Broadway at Barnes & Noble
By: Genevieve Rafter Keddy Sep. 16, 2014
Author Carol J. Oja, Conductor Judith Clurman, Essential Voices USA's Billie Allen, Jamie Bernstein and Adam Green celebrated the publication of Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War at Barnes and Noble in New York City last night, Monday September 15, 2014. Check out a look back elow!
Oja, Harvard University's William Powell Mason Professor of Music and American Studies and the New York Philharmonic's Leonard Bernstein Scholar-in-Residence, signed copies of her book and lead an exciting panel of distinguished artists. She was joined by music director Clurman and members of Essential Voices USA, special guests Allen, Bernstein, GREEN , singers Diana Rose Becker, Arlo Hill, Daniel Schwait, Jorell Williams and pianist Kurt Crowley. Selections from the Leonard Bernstein (music), Betty Comden & Adolph Green (lyrics) musical On The Town were also performed.
When Leonard Bernstein first arrived in New York City, he was an unknown artist working with other brilliant twenty somethings, notably Jerome Robbins, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green. By the end of the 1940s, these artists were world famous. In Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time of War, award-winning author Carol J. Oja examines the early days of Bernstein's career during World War II, centering around the debut in 1944 of the Broadway musical On the Town and the ballet Fancy Free. Bernstein and his visionary friends focused on urban contemporary life and popular culture, featuring as heroes the itinerant sailors who bore the brunt of military service. They were provocative both artistically and politically. In an era of race riots and Japanese internment camps, they featured African American performers and a Japanese American ballerina, staging a model of racial integration. Rather than accepting traditional distinctions between high and low art, Bernstein's music was wide-open, inspired by everything from opera and jazz to cartoons. Oja shapes a wide-ranging cultural history that captures a tumultuous moment in time.
Photos by Genevieve Rafter Keddy
Bernstein Meets Broadway
Carol J. Oja (Author)
Carol J. Oja
Judith Clurman and Carol J. Oja
Judith Clurman and Carol J. Oja
Judith Clurman (Musical Director)
Kurt Crowley (Pianist), Judith Clurman, Arlo Hill, Daniel Schwait, Jorell Williams, Diana Rose Becker and Carol J. Oja
Kurt Crowley (Pianist), Judith Clurman, Arlo Hill, Daniel Schwait, Jorell Williams and Diana Rose Becker
Kurt Crowley (Pianist), Judith Clurman, Arlo Hill, Daniel Schwait, Jorell Williams, Diana Rose Becker and Carol J. Oja
Arlo Hill, Daniel Schwait and Jorell Williams
Arlo Hill, Daniel Schwait and Jorell Williams
Diana Rose Becker, Arlo Hill, Daniel Schwait and Jorell Williams
Diana Rose Becker, Arlo Hill, Daniel Schwait and Jorell Williams
Diana Rose Becker, Arlo Hill, Kurt Crowley, Judith Clurman, Jorell Williams, Carol J. Oja, Daniel Schwait and Essential Voices USA
Susanna Wolk (Director). Judith Clurman, Gertjan Meijer (Essential Voices USA Chorus Manager) and Carol J. Oja
Jorell Willams
Jorell Williams and members of Essential Voices USA
Jorell Williams
Jorell Williams
Arlo Hill, Jorell Williams and Daniel Schwait
Arlo Hill, Jorell Williams and Daniel Schwait
Arlo Hill, Jorell Williams and Daniel Schwait
Arlo Hill, Jorell Williams and Daniel Schwait
Tonights panel-Jamie Bernstein, Adam Green, Billie Allen and Carol J. Oja
Arlo Hill and members of Essential Voices US
Jamie Bernstein, Adam Green and Billie Allen listening to Arlo Hill and Essential Voices USA
Jamie Bernstein, Adam Green and Billie Allen
Jamie Bernstein, Adam Green and Bille Allen
Jamie Bernstein, Adam Green and Billie Allen
Jamie Bernstein listening to Arlo Hill and Essential Voices USA
Jamie Bernstein, Adam Green and Billie Allen listening to Essential Voices USA
Lauren Champlin, Daniel Schwait, Jorell Williams and Diana Rose Becker
Lauren Champlin, Daniel Schwait, Jorell Williams and Diana Rose Becker
Lauren Champlin
Arlo Hill, Daniel Schwait, Jorell Williams, Diana Rose Becker, Jamie Bernstein, Adam Green, Billie Allen and Essential Voices USA
Arlo Hill, Daniel Schwait, Jorell Williams, Diana Rose Becker, Jamie Bernstein, Adam Green, Billie Allen and Essential Voices USA
Jorell Williams
Adam Green, Jamie Bernstein, Judith Clurman, Billie Allen and Carol J. Oja
Adam Green and Jamie Bernstein
Jamie Bernstein, Judith Clurman and Alexander Bernstein
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