CBS Music

Composition by Leonard Bernstein

CBS Music
by Leonard Bernstein
Composed	1976

CBS Music is a 1976 composition by Leonard Bernstein.

It was written to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the CBS television network.^[1] The notes of the piece (C, B flat and E flat) spell out 'CBS' with the E flat pronounced 'S' in German.^[2] The score of CBS Music was subsequently withdrawn by Bernstein, and he reused parts of it in his piece Halil: Nocturne.^[1]

It was orchestrated by Sid Ramin and arranged by Jack Gottlieb.^[1]

The first and last movements of the CBS Music were premiered on CBS TV on 1 April 1978 during the 50th-anniversary celebrations of the channel.^[1] It was recorded by Marin Alsop with the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra in a 2018 recording for Naxos Records.^[3]

Movements

"Fanfare and Titles"
"Quiet Music"
"Blues"
"Waltz"
"Chorale"

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Paul R. Laird; Hsun Lin (31 July 2019). Historical Dictionary of Leonard Bernstein. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 60. ISBN 978-1-5381-1345-5.
^ Bernstein, Leonard (2013-10-29). The Leonard Bernstein Letters. Yale University Press. p. 774. ISBN 978-0-300-18654-3.
^ Fairman, Richard (28 December 2018). "Leonard Bernstein: orchestral pieces — affectionate vignettes". Financial Times. Retrieved 28 February 2024.

External links

Work details, Boosey & Hawkes
Audio recording on YouTube, Marin Alsop and the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra

Leonard Bernstein

Opera and operetta

Trouble in Tahiti (1951)
Candide (1956)
A Quiet Place (1983)

Musicals

On the Town (1944)
- "New York, New York"
- "Lonely Town"
Peter Pan (1950)
Wonderful Town (1953)
- "Ohio"
West Side Story (1957)
- "A Boy Like That"
- "America"
- "Cool"
- "Gee, Officer Krupke"
- "I Feel Pretty"
- "Maria"
- "One Hand, One Heart"
- "Something's Coming"
- "Somewhere"
- Tonight"
- "Tonight Quintet"
A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green (1958, collaboration)
The Race to Urga (1968)
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (1976)
The Madwoman of Central Park West (1979, contribution)

Ballet

Fancy Free (1944)
Dybbuk (1974)

Orchestral music

Symphony No. 1 (Jeremiah) (1942)
Symphony No. 2 (The Age of Anxiety) (1948–49, revised 1965)
Symphony No. 3 (Kaddish) (1963)
Fanfare for the Inauguration of John F. Kennedy (1961)
CBS Music (1976)
Slava! A Political Overture (1977)
Divertimento (1980)
Concerto for Orchestra (1986, 1988, 1989, originally Jubilee Games)

Concertante

Prelude, Fugue and Riffs (1948)
Serenade after Plato's "Symposium" (1954)
Ḥalil (1981)

Chamber music

Piano Trio (1937)
Clarinet Sonata (1942)
Dance Suite (1989)

Choral

Hashkiveinu (1945)
Chichester Psalms (1965)
"Olympic Hymn" (1981)
Missa Brevis (1988)

Vocal

Psalm 148 (art song, 1935)
I Hate Music (song cycle, 1943)
La Bonne Cuisine (song cycle, 1947)
"So Pretty" (1968)
Songfest: A Cycle of American Poems for Six Singers and Orchestra (1977)
"My Twelve Tone Melody" (1988)

Piano music

Non troppo presto (Music for the Dance No. 1) (1937)
Music for the Dance No. 2 (1938)
Sonata for the Piano (1938)
Anniversaries (1942—1988)
- Seven Ann. (1942–43)
- Four Ann. (1948)
- Five Ann. (1949–51)
- Thirteen Ann. (1988)
Four Sabras (ca. 1950)
Bridal Suite (1960)
Touches (1980)