Research Catalog

Title

The exception and the rule [sound recording] : [Leonard Bernstein sketches] / based on Bertolt Brecht's play The exception and the rule ; adapted by Leonard Bernstein (music), John Guare (libretto), Stephen Sondheim (lyrics), and Jerome Robbins.

Author

Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990

Publication

[1968?]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956.
• Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990.
• Sondheim, Stephen
• Guare, John
• Estate of Jerome Robbins. dnr

Found In

Jerome Robbins Collection

Description

1 sound disc (ca. 14 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Alternative Title

Jerome Robbins Collection. Audio materials.

Subjects

• Audiotapes > Bernstein, L
• Robbins, Jerome

Note

• Leonard Bernstein plays musical compositions and sketches for Bertolt Brecht's The exception and the rule, making brief comments about the pieces. Some lyrics are sung and portions of dialogue are read by unidentified singers/speakers.
• Sound quality is fair.
• Note on original container: L. Bernstein poor quality tape for Brecht's The exception and the rule.

Access (note)

• Permission required.

Funding (note)

• Preservation was funded by the Jerome Robbins Foundation.

Source (note)

• Estate of Jerome Robbins

Biography (note)

• In 1968, Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and John Guare collaborated on a production of Bertolt Brecht's play Exception and the rule, to be called A pray by Blecht. The adaptation, which was to star Zero Mostel and be produced by Stuart Ostrow, was to be presented as a play within a play set in a television studio, and to deal with issues of black and white race relations. The show was scheduled for the Broadhurst Theater in Feb. 1969 but never opened. It was restaged in a workshop in 1987, retitled Race to Urga. Additional materials relating to these productions can be found in the Jerome Robbins Papers at the New York Public Library.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of: Jerome Robbins Collection. Audio materials.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2857 JRC

OCLC

777222304

Author

Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990, composer.

Title

The exception and the rule [sound recording] : [Leonard Bernstein sketches] / based on Bertolt Brecht's play The exception and the rule ; adapted by Leonard Bernstein (music), John Guare (libretto), Stephen Sondheim (lyrics), and Jerome Robbins.

Imprint

[1968?]

Access

Permission required.

Original Version

Original format : 1 sound reel (ca. 14 min.; 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 2 channels). Originally recorded in 1968?

Funding

Preservation was funded by the Jerome Robbins Foundation.

Biography

In 1968, Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and John Guare collaborated on a production of Bertolt Brecht's play Exception and the rule, to be called A pray by Blecht. The adaptation, which was to star Zero Mostel and be produced by Stuart Ostrow, was to be presented as a play within a play set in a television studio, and to deal with issues of black and white race relations. The show was scheduled for the Broadhurst Theater in Feb. 1969 but never opened. It was restaged in a workshop in 1987, retitled Race to Urga. Additional materials relating to these productions can be found in the Jerome Robbins Papers at the New York Public Library.

Linking Entry

Forms part of: Jerome Robbins Collection. Audio materials.

Local Note

*MGZTL 4-2879 JRC is an additional copy, transferred from a different Archive original (*MGZTCO 3-2879), a sound cassette that was presumably copied from *MGZTO 5-2857 JRC.

Archive original: *MGZTO 5-2857 JRC

Source

Gift; Estate of Jerome Robbins, 1999. NN-PD

Added Author

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956. Author

Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990. Instrumentalist

Sondheim, Stephen, lyricist.

Guare, John, librettist.

Estate of Jerome Robbins. Donor

Added Title

Jerome Robbins Collection. Audio materials.

Found In:

Jerome Robbins Collection

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2857 JRC