BY BERNSTEIN, A Musical Cabaret
Book by Betty Comden & Adolph Green
Lyrics by Comden & Green, John La Touche , Jerry Leiber, Stephen Sondheim & LB
Orchestrations by Thomas Pierson
Written for this production by Comden & Green:
Welcome
Originally from:
On The Town (Comden&Green)
Gabey’s Comin’/Lonely Me
Say When/The Intermission’s Great I’m Afraid It’s Love
West Side Story (Sondheim)
Like Everybody Else
Peter Pan (LB )
Captain Hook’s Soliloquy
Dream with Me
Candide (La Touche)
Ring-Around-A-Rosy
Wonderful Town (C&G)
A Pray by Blecht
The Coolie’s Dilemma (Leiber)
In There (Sondheim)
The Skin of Our Teeth (C&G)
Spring Will Come Again
Here Comes the Sun
Never before performed songs at the time of the premiere (C&G/LB)
Another Love/I Know a Fellow/
It’s Gotta Be Bad to Be Good
Rio Bamba/Ain’t Got No Tears Left
The Story of My Life
FP: 23 November 1975/Chelsea Westside Theater, NYC/Michael Bawtree, dir/ Clay Fullum, cond.

CANDIDE (original version)
See Theater Works

THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE, Songs

CBS MUSIC
For Orchestra
1. Fanfares and Titles II. Quiet Music III. Blues IV. Waltz V. Chorale
FP: 1 April 1978/CBS-TV

THE FIRSTBORN, Incidental Music for the play by Christopher Fry
Lyrics: Christopher Fry & LB
Tensret’s Song (E)
FP: 29 April 1958/Coronet Theater, NYC
See Choral Works for Israelite Chorus (H)

GET HEP! (1955)
Marching Song Written for the Tercentary of Michigan State College
Lyrics: LB

HARVARD CHORUSES (1957)
Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner
Dedication 2. Lonely Men of Harvard (Lament and March)
FP: 7 March 1957/Carnegie Hall, NYC
Harvard Glee Club & Band, G. Wallace Woodworth, cond.
Unpublished, Lyrics published in A Hymn To Him (The Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner), Limelight Editions, NYC, 1987

MEDITATION III from “Mass”
For Orchestra
A third Meditation, which did not appear in the original stage version, was fashioned from various other materials in Mass.
FP: 21 May, 1972/Jerusalem/IPO; LB, cond.

A QUIET PLACE
First version (sequel to Trouble in Tahiti)
Libretto: Stephen Wadsworth and LB
Orchestrations by Irwin Kostal, Sid Ramin & LB
Commissioned by Houston Grand Opera, Kennedy Center and Teatro Alla Scala
FP: 17 June 1983, Jones Hall for the Performing Arts, Houston Grand Opera Texas:
Sheri Greenawald, Tim Nolen, Peter Kazaras, Chester Ludgin, Edward Crafts, Diane Kesling et al/Grethe Holby, choreo/Peter Mark Schifter, dir/John DeMain, cond.

SALOMÉ
Incidental Music for the play by Oscar Wilde
Chamber Orchestra for 8 players with vocal solos
Opening & Closing/Banquet Music/Offstage Singing/Dance of the Seven Veils
FP: Omnibus television show, 11 December 1955/Seymour Lipkin, cond.

1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE (1976)
A Musical Play about the Problems of Housekeeping
Book and Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner
Orchestration: Sid Ramin and Hershy Kay
Act I: 1. Rehearse! 2. Ten Square Miles By the Potomac River 3. If I Was a Dove 4. Welcome Home, Miz Adams 5. Take Care of This House 6. The President Jefferson Sunday Luncheon Party March 7. Seena 8. Sonatina: Allegro con brio/Tempo di Menuetto (including To Anacreon in Heaven, later Star Spangled Banner)/Rondo 9. Lud's Wedding: I Love My Wife 10. Auctions: The Little White Lie 11. Mark Of a Man 12. We Must Have a Ball 13. The Ball
Act II: 14. Bright and Black 15. Duet for One (The First Lady Of the Land) 15a. Hail Garfield 16. The Robber-Baron Minstrel Parade 17. Pity the Poor 18. Red White and Blues 19. Proud
FP: 24 February 1976, Forrest Theatre, Philadelphia, George Faison & Gilbert Moses (choreo. & dir.), Roland Gagnon, cond.
FP NY: 4 May 1976/Mark Hellinger Theater/Gilbert Moses, dir; others as above

SUITE FROM “FANCY FREE”
For Orchestra
Same as ballet, less Sections II & V and Finale changed
FP: 14 January 1945/PSO/LB, cond.