Letter from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, October 1938
excerpt: "I'll try to reach Blitzstein before I call you to get the dope from him. But what makes you think he controls the fee?" From: Correspondence Series
S.H.M. Gilbert to Leonard Bernstein, March 18, 1980
excerpt: "March 2nd reminded us of Marc Blitzstein's birthday. But for his tragic death, he would have been 75 years old. At his death he left a partial manuscript of his opera "Sacco and Vanzetti." We pray you... More
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, n.d
excerpt: "I adore Mexico City, although I don't breathe properly yet I got a piano with no trouble."
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, n.d
excerpt: "Hi you! I miss having you about to remind me of me How is music - and the war drive?"
Eric Gordon to Leonard Bernstein, April 13, 1987
excerpt: "I want to thank you very much for your time on Saturday to talk about Marc .I find there are three questions I we didn't have time for and that I really would like to ask "
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, July 4, 1956
excerpt: "I'm working fine; some MAHAGONNY, mostly the choral work. I occasionally wonder how you manage balancing the CANDIDE-WEST-SIDE-STORY-CARMEN-MOZART-MASS-AND-CONCERTO-TELEVISION-SCRIPTS-ST. LOUIS-WHAT-H... More
Selma Wolfman Lillian Hellman's secretary to Leonard Bernstein, Februa...
excerpt: "Enclosed is a clipping that came from Bernard Malamud. He wanted you to see it and asked that you send it on to Mrs. Davis."
Eric Gordon notes from interview with Shirley Bernstein, 1987
excerpt: "Shirley 15 in 1939. jr in H.S. Knew Cradle, learned it could read music adored MB in London when MB was killed
Letter from Helen Coates to Leonard & Felicia Bernstein, January 15, 1...
excerpt: "...I received the wonderful news that you (PLURAL) are pregnant...[John Mehegan] feels the Jazz Symposium is very important...Marc [Blitzstein's] version of the Threepenny Opera...I am amazed that you... More
Michael Myerberg to Leonard Bernstein, December 12, 1947
excerpt: "We are opening Cradle December 26 and of course are planning on your presence"
Leonard Bernstein to Marc Blitzstein, April 17, 1955
excerpt: "Today I played some of Regina for Peter Diamant, head of the Holland Festival and he seemed terribly impressed and interested."
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, April 16, 1950
excerpt: "Your casual throwaway phrase: "If you run into any trouble on lyrics (in Peter Pan), consult Marc - he's my deputy" - has borne all kinds of fruit; raw, ripe, rotten The new opera is nearly half finished!"
Leonard Bernstein to Marc Blitzstein, March 28, 1955
excerpt: "I've been through hell over Regina. I am furious and disgusted, and what is worse, helpless. I now understand the run-around I've gotten I'm going to have one last fling with deSabata on it, and then ... More
Josephine Blitzstein Davis to Leonard Bernstein, March 28, 1965
excerpt: "I know so well what your letter to Marc is about. I live with him daily and sometimes I can even get passed [sic] the last horror and continue a "life" that for me cannot die."
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, March 23, 1955
excerpt: "I'm aware the hopping-mad tone of my letter was way out of bounds I can only plead my sense of exasperated frustration as the weeks went by I think it would be fine if all the jazz and spirituals in "... More
Josephine Blitzstein Davis to Helen Coates, June 2, 1964
excerpt: "Now that I'm back from the Soviet Union, I want to tell all of you how grateful and full of love I am...I wrote to Lenny asking if I could again see the MMS. Of SACCO I also want to know about IDIOTS ... More
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, March 30, 1944
excerpt: "Both you & Jeremiah superbly tailored. Accept my order for repeat"
Eric Gordon notes for questions to ask Leonard Bernstein about Marc Bl...
excerpt: "Did Marc have a place in New York he would swim during the winter?...Why did the Washington Opera revised, restored Regina never happen?...Marc and Felicia's relation "
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, n.d
excerpt: "Hi you! I miss having you about to remind me of me How is music - and the war drive?"
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, March 23, 1955
excerpt: "I'm aware the hopping-mad tone of my letter was way out of bounds I can only plead my sense of exasperated frustration as the weeks went by I think it would be fine if all the jazz and spirituals in "... More
Letter from Helen Coates to Leonard & Felicia Bernstein, n.d.
excerpt: "[Irving] thinks it would be wonderful to have either Marc's or the Threepenny Opera, although he feels that Brandeis would not want it if it were running on Broadway at the same time." From: Correspon... More
Harvard University to Leonard Bernstein, May 4, 1939
excerpt: "Permit for Use of University Building For the use of Sanders Theatre for rehearsals and performance of Marc Blitzstein's musical play "The Cradle Will Rock ""
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, January 4, 1950
excerpt: "I'm inept at writing fan letters - but the Berlioz last night threw me completely I took it to my heart "
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, March 15, 1955
excerpt: "I know the enormous success of "Wonderful Town" in London plus your hard work at Scala plus running all over the place but a simple word? A line to let me know ?...I could go on but I think I'll wait ... More
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, January 3, 1961
excerpt: "I wish you were happier This is between yourself and yourself The Christmas-card-photo is a dream."
Eric Gordon notes from interview with Leonard Bernstein, April 11, 198...
excerpt: "Harry Kraut called No recall of 3PO No recall of Cuba trip details Has sent out copies of the MB-LB correspondence MB never tried to recruit LB into CP."
Letter from Helen Coates to Leonard Bernstein, January 25, 1952
excerpt: "[Blitzstein] felt [he] should know more about the festival and your ideas and plans for it...[Olga Koussevitzky] was quite upset about your idea of doing the Schoenberg and Kirchner pieces..." From: C... More
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Shirley Bernstein, January 25, 1964
excerpt: "It's an open season on Kaddish, all right. The President. Marc [Blitzstein]. I take it you've read substantially what we've read: first an auto accident; then a new story about being beaten by thr... More
Edith van Cleve MCA Management to Leonard Bernstein, October 24, 1947
excerpt: "Enclosed are 3 copies of the Letter of Agreement between you and Howard Da Silva for his services in "The Cradle Will Rock.""
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, December 26, 1947
excerpt: "In spite of Glitzsteins blizzard my undying thanks hit it my boy"
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, July 23, 1953
excerpt: "A new method of work (one I've rarely tried before, has me moving on, instead of finishing as I do; this means not only no dynamic-directions, but often only indications of harmony or new tonality."
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, March 30, 1944
excerpt: "Both you & Jeremiah superbly tailored. Accept my order for repeat"
Letter from Helen Coates to Leonard Bernstein, January 25, 1952
excerpt: "[Blitzstein] felt [he] should know more about the festival and your ideas and plans for it...[Olga Koussevitzky] was quite upset about your idea of doing the Schoenberg and Kirchner pieces..." From: C... More
Leonard Bernstein to Marc Blitzstein, March 20, 1955
excerpt: "You're right to be boiling mad, and I would be too; and you're also right in knowing that Regina has never slipped my mind, to put it mildly."
Eric Gordon notes for questions to ask Leonard Bernstein about Marc Bl...
excerpt: "Did Marc have a place in New York he would swim during the winter?...Why did the Washington Opera revised, restored Regina never happen?...Marc and Felicia's relation "
Eric Gordon notes from interview with Shirley Bernstein, 1987
excerpt: "Shirley 15 in 1939. jr in H.S. Knew Cradle, learned it could read music adored MB in London when MB was killed
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, March 27, 1955
excerpt: "Boheme was a bad experience...I have also been having a bad time about Marc's REGINA...Tahitis is off in Florence...I have accepted, at long last, to go to Argentina." From: Correspondence Series
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, June 20, 1939
excerpt: "Yaddo is exactly as I left it eight years ago, which is a little frightening, but reassuring too."
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard and Felicia Bernstein, October 31, 1953
excerpt: "Helen assured me you hadn't been gobbled up by the Jordan massacrists Reuben, the rummy rogue, is finished; or about finished"
Leonard Bernstein to Marc Blitzstein, December 13, 1961
excerpt: "So how goes it? I thought of you last night at the Met, & imagined with excitement S & V treading those Forza boards."
Eric Gordon notes from interview with Burton Bernstein, December 30, 1...
excerpt: "6 y.o. in 1939 MB-like an 8th grade teacher, This is what you must do. Paradoxical, complex "
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, n.d
excerpt: "Here, and every inch a soldier. How are you? And D.O?"
Josephine Blitzstein Davis to Leonard Bernstein, May 5, 1985
excerpt: "Your love for Marc came shining through the entire time. I'm grateful and love you because you and Marc loved each other. Somehow, I feel a part of it."
Eric Gordon notes from interview with Leonard Bernstein, April 11, 198...
excerpt: "Harry Kraut called No recall of 3PO No recall of Cuba trip details Has sent out copies of the MB-LB correspondence MB never tried to recruit LB into CP."
Eric Gordon notes for questions to ask Leonard Bernstein about Marc Bl...
excerpt: "Six Elizabethan Songs dedicated to LB. Why those?...Did Britten know the Airborne, or meet Marc in 1946 at Tanglewood?"
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, April 27, 1951
excerpt: "You will note I am at Jo's. It is a good siege of work; and if it continues at this pace and level, I'll stay. I took time out to read James Jones' "From Here to Eternity" "
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard and Felicia Bernstein, December 1, 1960
excerpt: "I have found me a dream-flat - an eagle's nest just by the Piazza Colonna And, at the moment, wildly happy I went with the Fedele d'Amico to the dress of the Stravinsky concert "
Eric Gordon notes from interview with Shirley Bernstein, 1987
excerpt: "Shirley 15 in 1939. jr in H.S. Knew Cradle, learned it could read music adored MB in London when MB was killed
Eric Gordon notes from interview with Leonard Bernstein, April 11, 198...
excerpt: "Harry Kraut called No recall of 3PO No recall of Cuba trip details Has sent out copies of the MB-LB correspondence MB never tried to recruit LB into CP."
Eric Gordon notes from phone conversation with Leonard Bernstein, Augu...
excerpt: "Ada Abarbanell just scat Was Abarbanell there? - no recollection...bobabob scat last saw Lina at Martha's Vineyard After Marc's death, LB went into a deep depression "
Eric Gordon notes from interview with Burton Bernstein, December 30, 1...
excerpt: "6 y.o. in 1939 MB-like an 8th grade teacher, This is what you must do. Paradoxical, complex "
Letter from Helen Coates to Leonard & Felicia Bernstein, January 15, 1...
excerpt: "...I received the wonderful news that you (PLURAL) are pregnant...[John Mehegan] feels the Jazz Symposium is very important...Marc [Blitzstein's] version of the Threepenny Opera...I am amazed that you... More
Letter from Helen Coates to Leonard & Felicia Bernstein, January 15, 1...
excerpt: "...I received the wonderful news that you (PLURAL) are pregnant...[John Mehegan] feels the Jazz Symposium is very important...Marc [Blitzstein's] version of the Threepenny Opera...I am amazed that you... More
Letter from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, 1938
excerpt: "...be sure to learn a lot about counterpoint first. No one can beat Piston at that...I saw M. Blitzstein...so why not write him directly and say you're the pianist I mentioned..." From: Correspondence Series
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, September 23, 1946
excerpt: "Love and wow them and I am already one word extra"
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, September 7, 1963
excerpt: "Felicia says you have finished the piece! I am not only envious, I hate your guts I am staying down here with my mother until the first week in October "
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, January 30, 1950
excerpt: "Your fine gesture ("Come to Detroit, why don't you?") is duly noted, savored and filed, in a mood of sobri- (drat this machine) ety and contrition."
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, n.d
excerpt: "DREAM. (Dec, 19, 1963, 6.15 A.M., just before awakening) It seemed to be the 'new' Philadelphia, in time of a great convention Lillian came by...Arthur Kober appeared I closed the door behind them; an... More
Letter from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, n.d.
excerpt: "Heard Roy's new piece last night with Marc B. Four thumbs down." From: Correspondence Series
Eric Gordon to Leonard Bernstein, January 4, 1977
excerpt: "1977 is the fiftieth anniversary of the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti I learned that you were the executor of the literary estate of Marc Blitzstein when he died, and that his opera on Sacco and Van... More
Marc Blitzstein and Leonard Bernstein to David Diamond, September 24, ...
The David Diamond Collection
Leonard Bernstein to Marc Blitzstein, March 20, 1955
excerpt: "You're right to be boiling mad, and I would be too; and you're also right in knowing that Regina has never slipped my mind, to put it mildly."
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, n.d
excerpt: "I adore Mexico City, although I don't breathe properly yet I got a piano with no trouble."
Letter from Helen Coates to Leonard & Felicia Bernstein, n.d.
excerpt: "[Irving] thinks it would be wonderful to have either Marc's or the Threepenny Opera, although he feels that Brandeis would not want it if it were running on Broadway at the same time." From: Correspon... More
Leonard Bernstein to Marc Blitzstein, July 20, 1962
excerpt: "Am here Bay of Naples, en route to Monte Carlo & Spain, I think of you, S & V, being Jewish your Arabic [maid?]. I hope all continues to be as joyful as before."
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, June 2, 1939
excerpt: "The reviews were wonderful, I thought, particularly for the play Nor did they overstate the excellence of you and Shirley and Donald and the rest."
Eric Gordon to Leonard Bernstein, February 13, 1979
excerpt: "Perhaps you recall about two years ago a letter from me about the music of Marc Blitzstein's Sacco and Vanzetti I have decided to further my work on Blitzstein. What I plan is a full-fledged biography "
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard and Felicia Bernstein, July 19, 1952
excerpt: " what a fine time I have been having recently. The "Regina" concert started, really sparked, the sense of well-being; then Brandeis and the "Threepenny"; then Mina's; then Tanglewood and you-all."
Eric Gordon notes from interview with Shirley Bernstein, 1987
excerpt: "Shirley 15 in 1939. jr in H.S. Knew Cradle, learned it could read music adored MB in London when MB was killed
Josephine Blitzstein Davis to Helen Coates, June 2, 1964
excerpt: "Now that I'm back from the Soviet Union, I want to tell all of you how grateful and full of love I am...I wrote to Lenny asking if I could again see the MMS. Of SACCO I also want to know about IDIOTS ... More
"Adolph Green to Leonard Bernstein, n.d."
excerpt: " Good luck on the Cradle to-night. I hope Blitzstein is there I'm doing famously .It's all-quotes-like a dream "
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, March 27, 1955
excerpt: "Boheme was a bad experience...I have also been having a bad time about Marc's REGINA...Tahitis is off in Florence...I have accepted, at long last, to go to Argentina." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Shirley Bernstein, January 25, 1964
excerpt: "It's an open season on Kaddish, all right. The President. Marc [Blitzstein]. I take it you've read substantially what we've read: first an auto accident; then a new story about being beaten by thr... More
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, December 23, 1964
excerpt: ""Here it is (the Marc piece) and I hope it arrives in time." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, 1940
excerpt: "Marc Blitzstein reports it was `easily the best thing on the program'." From: Correspondence Series
Eric Gordon notes from interview with Leonard Bernstein, Prince St. Ba...
excerpt: "I had come feeling that LB was testing me during this conversation LB acknowledged his debt to MB [Marc Blitzstein]"
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein and family, August 26, 1956
excerpt: "I found out about David, and have been in touch with him by phone I read sparse accounts of "Candide" in the papers "
Letter from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, April 9, 1947
excerpt: "...good luck with symphony...Marc's situation hopeless...love to Nadia." From: Correspondence Series
Eric Gordon to Harry Kraut, November 5, 1986
excerpt: "St. Martin's Press has accepted my book, and I am now writing I hate to think how many years ago!, you gave me Mr. Bernstein's policy on interviews I would like to see the correspondence between Marc and him "
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, August 15, 1952
excerpt: "Your letter is full of good spirits. The modest expression of what must have been an enormous satisfaction, in the success of "Trouble in Tahiti", does you credit Of course Evita Peron can make a fine... More
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, August 31, 1954
excerpt: "I am back at "Reuben", and feeling ready for the final push Have a wonderful success with the "Serenade" "
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, April 21, 1955
excerpt: ""Trouble in Tahiti" is a hit; Helen will have already written you Your letter about Holland has just come."
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, December 27, 1961
excerpt: " I do nothing but work .worried about how gray and wan you looked. Jamaica helped, I hope. "Those Forza boards are going to have to wait a bit for my opera."
Barbara LewisColumbia University to Leonard Bernstein, October 11, 194...
excerpt: "[regarding] Pulitzer Prize in Music Would you please send us at your early convenience a list of all world premieres which your organization has performed or will perform during the dates of April 1, ... More
Marc Blitzstein and Leonard Bernstein to David Diamond, September 24, ...
The David Diamond Collection
Eric Gordon notes from interview with Leonard Bernstein, April 11, 198...
excerpt: "Harry Kraut called No recall of 3PO No recall of Cuba trip details Has sent out copies of the MB-LB correspondence MB never tried to recruit LB into CP."
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, March 27, 1955
excerpt: "Boheme was a bad experience...I have also been having a bad time about Marc's REGINA...Tahitis is off in Florence...I have accepted, at long last, to go to Argentina." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Helen Coates to Leonard & Felicia Bernstein, January 15, 1...
excerpt: "...I received the wonderful news that you (PLURAL) are pregnant...[John Mehegan] feels the Jazz Symposium is very important...Marc [Blitzstein's] version of the Threepenny Opera...I am amazed that you... More
Letter from Helen Coates to Leonard & Felicia Bernstein, n.d.
excerpt: "[Irving] thinks it would be wonderful to have either Marc's or the Threepenny Opera, although he feels that Brandeis would not want it if it were running on Broadway at the same time." From: Correspon... More
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, February 23, 1950
excerpt: "I'm very happy you have made such a beautiful big piece"
Josephine Blitzstein Davis to Leonard Bernstein, September 27, 1976
excerpt: "Thank you for your homage to Marc. Thank you for your everlasting memory I cried and laughed I have the records for Airborne "
Douglas Moore Columbia University to Leonard Bernstein, February 25, 1...
excerpt: "Thank you for your letter about Marc Blitzstein's newest work. I have referred the matter to President Fackenthal and he is willing that the date April 1st be made inclusive so that this work may be c... More
Mira Gilbert to Leonard Bernstein, February 6, 1964
excerpt: "I spent several hours with Marc Blitzstein just before he left for Martinique. We had a long talk during which your name came into the conversation. That's why I'm writing to you."
Josephine Blitzstein Davis to Leonard Bernstein, May 5, 1985
excerpt: "Your love for Marc came shining through the entire time. I'm grateful and love you because you and Marc loved each other. Somehow, I feel a part of it."
"Adolph Green to Leonard Bernstein, n.d."
excerpt: " Good luck on the Cradle to-night. I hope Blitzstein is there I'm doing famously .It's all-quotes-like a dream "
Eric Gordon notes from phone conversation with Leonard Bernstein, Augu...
excerpt: "Ada Abarbanell just scat Was Abarbanell there? - no recollection...bobabob scat last saw Lina at Martha's Vineyard After Marc's death, LB went into a deep depression "
Eric Gordon notes from interview with Burton Bernstein, December 30, 1...
excerpt: "6 y.o. in 1939 MB-like an 8th grade teacher, This is what you must do. Paradoxical, complex "
Barbara LewisColumbia University to Leonard Bernstein, October 11, 194...
excerpt: "[regarding] Pulitzer Prize in Music Would you please send us at your early convenience a list of all world premieres which your organization has performed or will perform during the dates of April 1, ... More
Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, n.d
excerpt: "Here, and every inch a soldier. How are you? And D.O?"
"Adolph Green to Leonard Bernstein, n.d."
excerpt: " Good luck on the Cradle to-night. I hope Blitzstein is there I'm doing famously .It's all-quotes-like a dream "