Leonard Bernstein: Trouble in Tahiti

Oja, Carol J.; Daymond, Karl; Novacek, Stephanie; Hosseinpour, A; Daniel, Paul; Cairns, T.

doi:10.2307/4153076

American Music

2005

DOI: 10.2307/4153076

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Leonard Bernstein: Trouble in Tahiti

Carol J. Oja¹,

Karl Daymond²,

Stephanie Novacek³

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“… 43 Carol J. Oja, Review of Leonard Bernstein: Trouble in Tahiti , American Music 23/4 (Winter 2005), 526.…”

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Leonard Bernstein and the Harvard Student Union: In Search of Political Origins

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2009

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In spite of the publicity generated at times by the politics of the mature Leonard Bernstein, the roots of his entanglement with political causes have been little-explored. As part of a larger collaborative project investigating Bernstein's ties to Boston, this article traces his role in the Harvard Student Union's theatrical productions. These shows were important because they represented some of Bernstein's earliest efforts at writing and directing for the theater. Bernstein worked on two shows sponsored by the Union: the production of Marc Blitzstein'sCradle Will Rockin 1939, during Bernstein's senior year at Harvard, and that of Aristophanes' playPeacein 1941, two years after he graduated. Although the Harvard Student Union was a major progressive political force on campus, Bernstein's relationship with the group appears to have been surprisingly casual. Examination of archival materials surrounding the productions, as well as selected interviews from the larger collaborative Bernstein project of which this article is but one part, reveals Bernstein as a man who was primarily interested in the Harvard Student Union insofar as it was an organization amenable to supporting his musical activities. As the heat of Bernstein's celebrity cools with time, such findings are an important aid in avoiding drawing overly deterministic conclusions about the significance of Bernstein's affiliations while ignoring his own immediate aims, political or otherwise.

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Leonard Bernstein and the Harvard Student Union: In Search of Political Origins

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2009

J Soc American Mus

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