John hopkins conductor biography of william shakespeare

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Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet and Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story show each of these composers at the melodic and dramatic best. The tale, predating Shakespeare, of “star-crossed lovers” caught in the throes of vengeful violence is unfortunately as modern now as ever.  We will discuss these works in the context of Shakespeare and watch HSO’s performance from December 2014. 

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Gerrad Alex Taylor (A&S '10), Actor, Director, and Teaching Artist; Associate Artistic Director, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company

Gerrad Alex Taylor is an actor, director, and teaching artist. Gerrad is Associate Artistic Director and resident acting company member with the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company He also directs at the Children's Theatre of Annapolis and is an actor and teaching artist with the Shakespeare Festival St. Louis. He received his B.A. in Neuroscience from Johns Hopkins University and his MFA in Performance from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Dr. Jed Gaylin, Music Director, Hopkins Symphony Orchestra

As Music Director, Dr. Jed Gaylin leads the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra (HSO), the Bay Atlantic Symphony, and Two Rivers Chambers Orchestra. He has been the Music Director of the HSO since 1993 during which time the orchestra

American conductor and composer (1918–1990)

Leonard Bernstein (BURN-styne; born Louis 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, as well as 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. Bernstein was also a critical figure in the modern revival of the music of Gustav Mahler, in whose music he was most interested. A skilled pianist, Bernstein often conducted piano concertos from the keyboard. He shared

Here you’ll find my ongoing list of sources, from academic journals to TV productions. I’ll update this regularly (so it currently only focuses on parts that I have covered), but consider all parts of it a work in progress.

With a thousand thanks to the National Library of Australia and the libraries of Australian National University, Canberra, and the University of Melbourne. Also ever grateful to the State Library of Victoria, and the library services of the City of Melbourne and City of Port Phillip.

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Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Bate, Jonathan; Rasmussen, Eric (eds); William Shakespeare: Complete Works; Royal Shakespeare Company, 2007, Hampshire: Macmillan
Bate, Jonathan; Rasmussen, Eric; Sewell, Jan; Sharpe, Will (eds); William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays; Royal Shakespeare Company, 2013, Hampshire: Macmillan
Irving, Sir Henry (ed); The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Also His Life, His Will, and an Introduction to  the Plays; 1926, Cleveland: World Syndicate Company Inc.
Wells, Stanley; Taylor, Gary; Jowett, John (eds); The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works (2nd ed.); 2005, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Journals

If you’re serious about Shakespeare studies, academic journals are the way to go. Many can be accessed through reliable library websites such as JSTOR and Project MUSE. Individual access will set you back a fair amount, but check with your local, state, or national library. In Australia, for instance, anyone can get a library card to the National Library and access such resources from home. Some are only accessible, unfortunately, through universities, which usually restrict e-resources to actual students and staff, not external members. Still, there is a lifetime of deeper reading available for the armchair scholar. (And it’s always

By Paul Schuyler Phillips

On a Wednesday evening twenty-five years ago in Iowa City, Iowa, one of the most exciting events in Anthony Burgess's life took place: the premiere of his Third Symphony.  In The New York Times, he succinctly described the thrill of the performance: "I had written over 30 books, but this was the truly great artistic moment." Note 1 Performed on October 22, 1975 by the University Symphony Orchestra of The University of Iowa School of Music under the direction of conductor James Dixon,  the symphony's premiere marked the first time that any of Burgess's orchestral compositions had ever been played in the Western hemisphere Note 2. Burgess had desired such an opportunity for decades and despite the imperfections of a performance by a student orchestra, he found the experience exhilarating. "Some things went wrong, of course... But it worked. The work worked. I was, and remain, overwhelmed. I had written those noises.  That was me, that great web of sonorities being discoursed by those hundred handsome kids under that big man on the rostrum." Note 3 The sense of accomplishment resulting from the performance caused Burgess's musical confidence to surge, leading him to compose a vast amount of music during his remaining eighteen years.

Burgess's life was a balancing act between his passions for literature and music, and setting words to music was a vital way for him to bind together the two halves of his creative self. He set texts by many writers he esteemed, including John Dryden, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, and T. S. Eliot, but the two authors with whom his identity was most closely connected were Joyce and Shakespeare. Burgess composed small- and large-scale works based on both their works, including song settings of verses by both authors. He composed a musical, Blooms of Dublin, based on Joyce's Ulysses, and made