Danny Elfman was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Blossom Elfman ( née Bernstein ), a writer and teacher, and Milton Elfman, a teacher who was in the Air Force.

Meanwhile, play-by-play TV broadcaster Len Kasper was also lost to the Chicago Cubs and replaced by Rich Waltz ( who had previously been with the Seattle Mariners ), and radio announcer John " Boog " Sciambi was replaced by Roxy Bernstein.

" Amber " was named by discoverers Richard Epstein and Charles Steinberg after their friend Harris Bernstein, whose last name means " amber " in German.

According to one theory about how Cocteau was inspired to write La Voix humaine, he was experimenting with an idea by fellow French playwright Henri Bernstein.

As players such as Bobby Broom, Peter Bernstein, Howard Alden, Russell Malone, and Mark Whitfield revived the sounds of traditional jazz guitar, there was also a resurgence of archtop luthierie ( guitar-making ).

When he was 25, Sondheim was introduced to Bernstein, who had heard Saturday Night and quickly hired him to write the lyrics to West Side Story.

It has been rumored that while Bernstein was off trying to fix the musical Candide, Sondheim wrote some of the music for West Side Story, and that Bernstein ’ s co-lyricist billing credit mysteriously disappeared from the credits of West Side Story during the tryout, presumably as a trade-off.

Bernstein had not written for the stage in a while, and his contract conducting the New York Philharmonic was ending.

Air America was sold to a new owner in March 2007, hired well-known programmer David Bernstein, and began its " re-birth.

The film's musical score was composed by Elmer Bernstein.

Walter Bernstein, a blacklisted scriptwriter, was commissioned by Morheim to produce the first draft " faithfully " adapted from the original script written by Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni and Akira Kurosawa ; when Mirisch and Brynner took over the production, they brought on Walter Newman, whose version " is largely what's on screen.

) The original soundtrack was not released at the time until reused and rerecorded by Bernstein for the soundtrack of Return of the Seven.

A vocal theme not written by Bernstein was used in a trailer.

In 1994 James Sedares conducted a re-recording of the score performed by The Phoenix Symphony Orchestra ( which also included a suite from Bernstein's score for The Hallelujah Trail, issued by Koch Records ; Bernstein himself conducted the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for a performance released by RCA in 1997, but the original film soundtrack was not released until the following year by Rykodisc ( Varèse Sarabande reissued this album in 2004 ).

While in Hollywood, he contacted Bernstein, who was in town conducting at the Hollywood Bowl.

Bernstein suggested they rework East Side Story and set it in Los Angeles, but Laurents felt he was more familiar with Puerto Ricans and Harlem than he was with Mexican Americans and Olvera Street.

With the help of Oscar Hammerstein, Laurents convinced Bernstein and Sondheim to move " One Hand, One Heart ", which he considered too pristine for the balcony scene, to the scene set in the bridal shop, and as a result " Tonight " was written to replace it.

Robbins was involved with Bells Are Ringing, then Bernstein with Candide, and in January 1957 A Clearing in the Woods, Laurents ' latest play, opened and quickly closed.

Sondheim himself insisted that Bernstein told the producers to list Sondheim as the sole lyricist.

According to Robbins, if Sondheim didn't do it, Bernstein wouldn't do it.

Eighteen years later, Bernstein and Robbins asked Sondheim to retry adapting the show, but Sondheim refused.

The lyrics and music were by Leonard Bernstein, with additional lyrics from other lyricists, including Sondheim.

Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein wrote The Race to Urga, scheduled to play at the Lincoln Center in 1969, but when Jerome Robbins left the project, it went unproduced.

* Candide – Second Version ( 1974 ) ( new lyrics by Sondheim ; original lyrics by Richard Wilbur ; music by Leonard Bernstein ; book by Hugh Wheeler )

* By Bernstein ( 1975 )- music and lyrics by Leonard Bernstein, additional lyrics by Betty Comden, Adolph Green, John Latouche, Jerry Leiber, and Stephen Sondheim ; written and conceived by Comden and Green, with Michael Bawtree, Norman L. Berman and the Chelsea Theatre Center.

West Side Story is an American musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and conception and choreography by Jerome Robbins.

In his memoirs, Prince recalled, " Sondheim and Bernstein sat at the piano playing through the music, and soon I was singing along with them.

The pre-Broadway run in Washington, D. C. was a critical and commercial success, although none of the reviews mentioned Sondheim, listed as co-lyricist, who was overshadowed by the better-known Bernstein.

Bernstein magnanimously removed his name as co-author of the lyrics, although Sondheim was uncertain he wanted to receive sole credit for what he considered to be overly florid contributions by Bernstein.

It has been rumored that while Bernstein was off trying to fix the musical Candide, Sondheim wrote some of the music for West Side Story, and that Bernstein's co-lyricist billing mysteriously disappeared from the credits of West Side Story during the tryout, presumably as a trade-off.

However, Suskin states in Show Tunes that " As the writing progressed and the extent of Bernstein's lyric contributions became less, the composer agreed to rescind his credit ... Contrary to rumor, Sondheim did not write music for the show ; his only contribution came on " Something's Coming ", where he developed the main strain of the chorus from music Bernstein wrote for the verse.

Among those who crossed paths with Abbott early in their careers are Desi Arnaz, Gene Tierney, Betty Comden, Hal Prince, Adolph Green, Leonard Bernstein, Jule Styne, Bob Fosse, Stephen Sondheim, Elaine Stritch, John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Liza Minnelli.

** West Side Story – Book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

#" America " ( Leonard Bernstein, Davison, Jackson, Stephen Sondheim ) – 6: 18

Promoter Sid Bernstein convinced Carnegie officials that allowing a Beatles concert at the venue " would further international understanding " between the United States and Great Britain.

Bernstein convinced her to develop it as a comic operetta with a much more substantial musical component.

Morey Bernstein remained convinced he had discovered a true past life of Virginia Tighe.

In 1888, Bismarck convinced the Swiss government to expel a number of key members of the German social democratic movement from its country, and so Bernstein moved to London, where he had close contacts with Friedrich Engels and Karl Kautsky.

Tony is convinced Frank sent Bernstein because only Frank would know details about the murders.

They convinced Robbins and Bernstein, who in turn wanted their friends Comden and Green to write the book and lyrics.

`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.

While Carl Bernstein has ascribed Felt's motives to truth telling and protecting the justice system against Presidential abuse, historian Max Holland in his 2012 book Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat claimed Felt planted the leaks to obtain the FBI director's job ( the leaks hurt L. Patrick Gray, Nixon's friend who had recently been chosen for the director's position over Felt ).. John Dean remarked that " Max has got it right — he nailed it ”.

In the early 20th century, Benjamin A. Gramm and his close friend Max Bernstein formed the Gramm-Bernstein Company, which became a pioneer in the motor truck industry.

Eisler's supporters — including his friend Charlie Chaplin and the composers Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein — organized benefit concerts to raise money for his defense fund, but he was deported early in 1948.

In 1939, Blitzstein's close friend Leonard Bernstein led a revival of the play at Harvard, narrating from the piano just as Blitzstein had done.

In 1978, Jane Bernstein and a friend were helping director Jonathan Kaplan cast the violent teen drama Over the Edge when they found Dillon cutting class at Hommocks Middle School in Larchmont.

In order to obtain residency, Armstrong and Robinson agreed she would have to marry a US citizen, so they separated and she married her friend Alexander Bernstein.

Under the advice of her US agent and with Robinson's consent, she married friend, Alexander Bernstein, in order to resolve visa issues and allow her to work in the United States.

The original choice for scoring the film, Elmer Bernstein, a friend and frequent collaborator with John Wayne, turned the assignment down due to his political beliefs.

Although Crawford preferred to characterize their relationship as one of “ sisterly-motherly love ,” she also acknowledged that at one time, their relationship had bordered becoming sexual, particularly on Bauer's part when she reserved a single hotel room for the two of them at the International Festival of Contemporary Music in Liège in September 1930, which made Crawford “ uncomfortable .” Along with Crawford's perceptions of her relationship with Bauer, Martin Bernstein, a longtime friend of Bauer's and a former chair of the NYU music department, stated: “ s a female, had very little interest in men ( emphasis in original )... At least if she had any romantic liaisons with men, we don't know about it .” Babbitt further substantiated Bernstein's thoughts during an interview about Bauer when he remarked, “ And she was very much a ... let's simply say unmarried.

According to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in their best-selling book All the President's Men, Clawson bragged about having written the Canuck letter to a friend, Marilyn Berger, who happened to be a Washington Post reporter, whom he had known from his days with the newspaper.

To prove his argument, Sears admitted that he was an anonymous source for Carl Bernstein, but Garment still didn't believe Sears, a longtime friend, was being truthful about not being Deep Throat.

After his military service he was offered a conducting position just vacated by Leonard Bernstein on the faculty of Brandeis University but instead accepted a position as music director at Temple Emanu-El in Dallas, Texas, where the rabbi, Levi Olan, was a friend of Adler's family.

Paris Blues marked his first feature film collaboration with director Martin Ritt, a friend since the 1940s ( and himself a victim of the Hollywood blacklist ); they subsequently worked together on The Molly Maguires ( 1970 ), which Bernstein also co-produced with Ritt, and The Front ( 1976 ).

Starr had one song each arranged by different musicians, ranging from Martin himself, Paul McCartney, Maurice Gibb, Quincy Jones and old friend of the Beatles from Hamburg ( and bassist with Manfred Mann ) Klaus Voormann, as well as Elmer Bernstein among others.

Pisar wrote this version of the text for the Kaddish Symphony " in memory of Leonard Bernstein, a beloved friend.