Research Catalog

Title

The exception and the rule [sound recording] : Leonard Bernstein works on the music with Jerome Robbins.

Author

Robbins, Jerome

Publication

[1968?]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956.
• Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990.

Description

1 sound disc (ca. 20 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Composer Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins work together on music and lyrics, chiefly from the chase scene, from Robbins' experimental theater work, The exception and the rule. The recording features mostly piano playing and singing by Bernstein with some comments and exchanges between the two collaborators.

Donor/Sponsor

Oral History Archive.

Series Statement

Jerome Robbins Collection

Subjects

• Robbins, Jerome > Career in theater
• Artistic collaboration
• Theater > New York (State) > New York > Production and direction
• Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990 > Songs and music
• Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956 > Ausnahme und die Regel
• Robbins, Jerome > Friends and associates
• Audiotapes > Robbins, J
• Experimental theater > New York (State) > New York

Note

• Recorded ca. 1968, probably in New York, N.Y.

Access (note)

• Permission required.

Funding (note)

• Preservation made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Biography (note)

• The exception and the rule, also known as A pray by Blecht, is a musical adaptation, conceived by Jerome Robbins, of the original work by Bertolt Brecht. Leonard Bernstein, John Guare and Stephen Sondheim collaborated with Robbins on the project. A play within a play that takes place in a television studio, the plot features two rival groups of oil merchants racing through the desert and the relationship between one of the oilmen and his coolie, juxtaposed with 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, see (S) *MGZMD 130.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-3310 JRC

OCLC

NYPT04-R193

Author

Robbins, Jerome.

Title

The exception and the rule [sound recording] : Leonard Bernstein works on the music with Jerome Robbins.

Imprint

[1968?]

Series

Jerome Robbins Collection

Access

Permission required.

Funding

Preservation made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Biography

The exception and the rule, also known as A pray by Blecht, is a musical adaptation, conceived by Jerome Robbins, of the original work by Bertolt Brecht. Leonard Bernstein, John Guare and Stephen Sondheim collaborated with Robbins on the project. A play within a play that takes place in a television studio, the plot features two rival groups of oil merchants racing through the desert and the relationship between one of the oilmen and his coolie, juxtaposed with 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, see (S) *MGZMD 130.

Local Note

Archive original: *MGZTCO 3-3310 JRC

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-3310 JRC

Preservation master: *MGZTP 10-3310 JRC

Local Subject

Audiotapes -- Robbins, J.

Added Author

Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956. Ausnahme und die Regel.

Robbins, Jerome.

Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990.

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-3310 JRC