讀這篇WQXR登載的Leonard Bernstein的書架：透過他的圖書室，深入瞭解這位大作曲家和指揮家
書的出版過程，也有許多緣分和深意。曹永洋是我的摯友，東海的大學長 (他1960年畢業，我1975年)他介紹我認識不少朋友，這是人生晚年很難得的賜禮，我很感激，當然友情等都是相互的，他也充實其退休生活.......；
曹永洋最感激的人，是他當了約30年中學教師而退休之後，張清吉先生(創辦志文出版社、新潮文庫，約出版名著500本，其他青少年文庫等，也約500本。)答應他到新潮文庫當12年的主編，每周上班3天，有寒暑假一個月；他認為這是一生中最充實、快樂的時光。
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Leonard Bernstein’s Bookshelf: An Intimate Look
Get to know the great composer-conductor through his library.
Ilike to think that the best way to get to know someone is by taking a long, hard look at their bookshelf. What’s on it? How is it organized? What’s in the dusty corner that hasn’t been touched for years? Gazing at a friend’s collection can give you an idea of what to read next, but there’s something even more fascinating about browsing those of interesting and influential people. And that’s why we’re bringing you a curated list of selections from Leonard Bernstein’s library.
The Bernstein family apartment, situated in the northern part of Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen, houses many of the conductor’s books (as well as those of his wife Felicia Montealegre) on two massive shelving units. Alexander Bernstein, the second of the Bernstein children, believes his father read pretty much every volume on the shelf, an eclectic mix ranging from religion and political science to psychology and social theory. (And even though Bernstein was a music man, books about music are few and far between.) It’s inspiring to see how varied his collection is: A small section holds several works by his favorite author, Vladimir Nabokov, and also present are his most treasured stories, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Numerous collections by poets like E.E. Cummings and William Carlos Williams dot the shelves, and there are classics like Homer and Austen next to works by Bernstein’s contemporaries, like Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin and Truman Capote.
So check out the selections below, and see how your reading habits stack up to Leonard’s.
Fiction and Novels
How German Is It by Walter Abish
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino
Complete Works of Lewis Carroll
The Grass Harp by Truman Capote
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Man with the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming
You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming
Roots by Alex Haley
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
The Secret of Avalon by Marjorie Yourd Hill
From Here to Eternity by James Jones
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Ada by Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov, collected works by Collins Collectors’ Choice (Includes Lolita, The Gift, Invitation to a Beheading and Glory)
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
City of Night by John Rechy
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Restless House by Emile Zola
Aphrodisiac: Fiction From Christopher Street
Theatre
Seven Plays by Bertolt Brecht
Six Plays by Rodgers and Hammerstein (includes Oklahoma!, Carousel, Allegro, South Pacific, The King and I, and Me and Juliet)
Poetry
Poems, 1923–1954 by E.E. Cummings
The Poetry of Robert Frost
The Homeric Hymns and Homerica by Hesiod
Complete Poems by Marianne Moore
Poems by Boris Pasternak
The Green Wall by James Wright
The Collected Later Poems by William Carlos Williams
Stolen Apples by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
An Anthology of Modern Yiddish Poetry
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova, Volumes I & II
Miracles: Poems by Children of the English Speaking World
The Oxford Book of American Verse
The Random House Book of Twentieth Century French Poetry
Women of the Fertile Crescent: An Anthology of Modern Poetry by Arab Women
History
The True Story of the Greensboro Massacre by Paul C. Bermanzohn and Sally A. Bermanzohn
The Quicksand War: Prelude to Vietnam by Lucien Bodard
The Death of A President by William Manchester
The Pocket History of the United States by Allan Nevins and Henry Steele Commager
The Crisis of the Old Order by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Religion
Collected Works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In God We Trust by Norman Cousins
God Knows by Joseph Heller
Science of Survival by L. Ron Hubbard
The Book of Mormon
The Holy Bible
Divine Office
Philosophy, Essays and Social Criticism
Nothing Personal by Richard Avedon and James Baldwin
No Name in the Street by James Baldwin
Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin
Sexuality and Feminism in Shelly by Nathaniel Brown
The Anatomy of Melancholy: What It Is, With All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes & Several Cures of It by Robert Burton
Bodies in Revolt: A Primer in Somatic Thinking by Thomas Hanna
Justice: Crisis of Law, Order and Freedom in America by Richard Harris
The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley
Sexual Politics by Kate Millet
The City in History by Lewis Mumford
A History of Orgies by Burgo Partridge
The Toynbee-Ikeda Dialogue by Arnold Toynbee and Daisaku Ikeda
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Biography, Memoir & Letters
Rickover by Norman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen
No Bed of Roses by Joan Fontaine
Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther
Upton Sinclair: An American Rebel by Leon Harris
Kissinger by Marvin Kalb and Bernard Kalb
Scarlett O'Hara's Younger Sister by Evelyn Keyes
Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir by Paul Monette
Nietzsche: Life as Literature by Alexander Nehamas
The Angel Inside Went Sour by Esther P. Rothman
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years by Carl Sandburg
Robert Kennedy and His Times by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History by Robert E. Sherwood
Alice James: A Biography by Jean Strouse
Oedipus and Akhnaton by Immanuel Velikovsky
A Precocious Autobiography by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Today is the Birth Anniversary of our favourite Lenny, Leonard Bernstein.
Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was the first American-born conductor to receive international acclaim. Bernstein was "one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history" according to music critic Donal Henahan. Bernstein's honors and accolades include seven Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and 16 Grammy Awards (including the Lifetime Achievement Award) as well as an Academy Award nomination. He received the Kennedy Center Honor in 1981.
As a composer, Bernstein wrote in many genres, including symphonic and orchestral music, ballet, film and theatre music, choral works, opera, chamber music, and pieces for the piano. Bernstein's works include the Broadway musical West Side Story, which continues to be regularly performed worldwide, and has been adapted into two (1961 and 2021) feature films, three symphonies, Serenade after Plato's "Symposium" (1954), and Chichester Psalms (1965), the original score for the Elia Kazan drama film On the Waterfront (1954), and theater works including On the Town (1944), Wonderful Town (1953), Candide (1956), and his Mass (1971).
Bernstein was the first American-born conductor to lead a major American symphony orchestra. He was music director of the New York Philharmonic and conducted the world's major orchestras, generating a legacy of audio and video recordings.[8] Bernstein was also a critical figure in the modern revival of the music of Gustav Mahler, in whose music he was most interested.[9] A skilled pianist,[10] Bernstein often conducted piano concertos from the keyboard. He shared and explored classical music on television with a mass audience in national and international broadcasts, including Young People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic.
Bernstein worked in support of civil rights, protested against the Vietnam War, advocated nuclear disarmament, raised money for HIV/AIDS research and awareness, and engaged in multiple international initiatives for human rights and world peace. He conducted Mahler's Resurrection Symphony to mark the death of president John F. Kennedy,[14] and in Israel at a concert, Hatikvah on Mt. Scopus, after the Six-Day War.[15] The sequence of events was recorded for a documentary entitled Journey to Jerusalem.[16] At the end of his life, Bernstein conducted a performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in Berlin to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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