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Monday, September 21, 2015

Concert Review: A Hook and an Uppercut


The New York Philharmonic plays On The Waterfront.
by Paul J. Pelkonen
Give him the hook: Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront.
Photo © 1954 Columbia Pictures. 
In the history of the New York Philharmonic, no conductor is more revered or loved than Leonard Bernstein, the Massachusetts-born composer who held the post of music director from 1958-1969. On Friday night at the soon-to-be-renamed Avery Fisher Hall, the Philharmonic kicked off this year's series celebrating film music with Bernstein's lone film score: On The Waterfront.

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