Leonard Rosenman Papers ca. 1949 - 1990

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Leonard Rosenman Papers ca. 1949 - 1990

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The Leonard Rosenman Papers chronicle the career of Leonard Rosenman in his roles as concert composer, pianist, film composer, and conductor from the early 1950s to 2001. The bulk of the collection consists of autograph music scores, sketches, lead sheets, musical breakdowns, and parts from music composed for concert, theatrical, and television productions.

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Rosenman, Leonard

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Leonard Rosenman (1924-2008), a native New Yorker, was a student of Arnold Schoenberg and Roger Sessions and Ernest Bloch. In the midst of a promising concert career, and championed by Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland, his roommate, and piano student James Dean, convinced him to compose the score for Elia Kazan's East of Eden (1954). The next year he followed that success with the first 12-tone score for a major motion picture, The Cobweb (1955), and James Dean's next film, Rebel...