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Letter from Helen Coates to Leonard & Felicia Bernstein, January 15, 1952 Correspondence. Typed letter | 4 pages. | 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 would want [Goldovsky] or anyone else to conduct your own opera when you will be on hand anyway." From: Correspondence Series Typed Letter (Form).
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Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, January 21, 1952 Correspondence. Typed letter, signed | 2 pages. | excerpt: "About my opera: I have abandoned it, decisively. It will not come, and therefore I will not force it...how about [Blitzstein's] new version of the Threepenny opera? The more I think of this the better I like it for Brandeis, because it is an ideal way of showing the merging of popular music with the...
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Letter from Helen Coates to Leonard Bernstein, January 25, 1952 Correspondence. Typed letter | 2 pages. | 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: Correspondence Series Typed Letter (Form).
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Letter from Helen Coates to Leonard & Felicia Bernstein, n.d. Correspondence. Typed letter | 3 pages. | 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: Correspondence Series Typed Letter (Form).
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Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, March 27, 1955 Correspondence. Typed letter, signed | 4 pages. | 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 Typed Letter, Signed (Form).
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Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, December 23, 1964 Correspondence. Autograph letter, signed | 2 pages. | excerpt: ""Here it is (the Marc piece) and I hope it arrives in time." From: Correspondence Series Autograph Letter, Signed (Form).
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Letter from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, 1938 Correspondence. Autograph letter, signed | 1 page. | 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 Autograph Letter, Signed (Form).
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Letter from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, October 1938 Correspondence. Autograph letter, signed | 1 page. | 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 Autograph Letter, Signed (Form).
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Letter from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, 1940 Correspondence. Autograph letter, signed | 1 page. | excerpt: "Marc Blitzstein reports it was `easily the best thing on the program'." From: Correspondence Series Autograph Letter, Signed (Form).
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Letter from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, April 9, 1947 Correspondence. telegram | 1 page. | excerpt: "...good luck with symphony...Marc's situation hopeless...love to Nadia." From: Correspondence Series Telegram (Form).
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Letter from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, n.d. Correspondence. Autograph letter, signed | 1 page. | excerpt: "Heard Roy's new piece last night with Marc B. Four thumbs down." From: Correspondence Series Autograph Letter, Signed (Form).
Photo, Print, Drawing
Marc Blitzstein and Leonard Bernstein at Tanglewood, July, 1946. photograph | 2 digital images. | Photograph (Form).
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Blitzstein seated outdoors at Brandeis photograph | 4 digital images. | Photograph (Form).
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Marc Blitzstein and Leonard Bernstein at Tanglewood photograph | 1 digital image | Photograph (Form).
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At Martha's Vineyard, July 1956. photograph | 2 digital images. | Photograph (Form).
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Marc Blitzstein photograph | 2 digital images. | Photograph (Form).
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Leonard Bernstein and Marc Blitzstein at Martha's Vineyard, 1960. photograph | 2 digital images. | Photograph (Form).
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Shirley Bernstein and Marc Blitzstein at Tanglewood photograph | 2 digital images. | Photograph (Form).
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"Adolph Green to Leonard Bernstein, n.d." Correspondence. 3 pages. | excerpt: " Good luck on the Cradle to-night. I hope Blitzstein is there I'm doing famously .It's all-quotes-like a dream "
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Blitzstein and our musical theatre [article re Blitzstein's Regina, published in the New York Times as Prelude to a musical], 1949 Oct. 17 None |
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
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Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, n.d. Correspondence. 2 pages. | excerpt: "Hi you! I miss having you about to remind me of me How is music - and the war drive?"
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Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, n.d. Correspondence. 2 pages. | excerpt: "Here, and every inch a soldier. How are you? And D.O?"
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Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, n.d. Correspondence. 2 pages. | excerpt: "I adore Mexico City, although I don't breathe properly yet I got a piano with no trouble."
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Marc Blitzstein to Leonard Bernstein, March 30, 1944 Correspondence. 1 page. | excerpt: "Both you & Jeremiah superbly tailored. Accept my order for repeat"
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Harvard University to Leonard Bernstein, May 4, 1939 Correspondence. 1 page. | 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 ""