{"title":"Leonard Bernstein","description":"\u003cp\u003e1918 August 25\u003cbr\u003eLawrence, Massachusetts\u003cbr\u003eMaestro\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI could go through any Beethoven sonata, the most original or the most extraordinary Beethovenian kind of, .. even late sonatas and show you all the origins in Haydn, or in Mozart, or in Bach.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIf we do survive, I think we are going to come out with a great return to representational painting, to intelligible poetry, to tonal music, to novels which we like, instead of novels in which you can take the pages out and realign them as you wish. And I do think we are going to come back to enjoyable art, in other words art that not only upsets and reveals but art that gives pleasure and catharsis.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJerry R. called today with a noble idea: a modern version of \u003c\/em\u003eRomeo and Juliet\u003cem\u003e, set in slums at the coincidence of Easter-Passover celebrations. Feelings running high between Jews and Catholics. Former: Capulets, latter: Montagues. Juliet is Jewish. Friar Lawrence is a neighborhood druggist. Street brawls, double death \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e it all fits. But it's all much less important than the bigger idea of making a musical that tells a tragic story in musical comedy terms, using only musical comedy techniques, never falling into the \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e“operatic\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e” trap. Can it succeed? It hasn't yet in our country. I'm excited. If it can work \u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e it's a first. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e6 Jan., 1949\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCould be. Who knows? There's something due any day. I will know right away soon as it shows. It may come a-cannonballing come down from the sky, gleam in its eye, bright as a rose. Who knows? \u003c\/em\u003e— Stephen Sondheim\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThere will always be some kind of fresh, popular, Earth-rooted source from which Art can come and grow to the more sophisticated developmental heights\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003eAssociated Play\u003c\/h1\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"romeo-and-juliet-shakespeare-v1","title":"Romeo and Juliet, v1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/5859\/6209\/files\/fifth-folio-romeo-and-juliet-cover.jpg?v=1778447329\" alt=\"Cover artwork for Romeo and Juliet in the Fifth Folio edition featuring layered folio typography.\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eþe tragedie of ROMEO and JULIET.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/5859\/6209\/files\/artwork_nav_mab_queen.jpg?v=1773125450\" alt=\"Homepage artwork for Fifth Folio showing a page from Romeo and Juliet over a Renaissance ceiling. Fifth Folio is a modern Shakespeare edition that continues the folio tradition established by the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Folios.\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/5859\/6209\/files\/artwork_play_alt_rj_boy_girl_frieze.jpg?v=1773743256\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/5859\/6209\/files\/artwork_play_alt_rj_hearts_queen.jpg?v=1774888600\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/5859\/6209\/files\/artwork_play_alt_rj_mab_in_the_attic.jpg?v=1774889592\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/5859\/6209\/files\/artwork_play_alt_rj_jack_of_spades.jpg?v=1774888490\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/5859\/6209\/files\/artwork_play_alt_rj_tombe_1.jpg?v=1789773844\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/5859\/6209\/files\/artwork_play_alt_rj_tombe_2.jpg?v=1789773925\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fifth Folio™","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55650615230833,"sku":"FF-PAM-ROM-1.0","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/5859\/6209\/files\/fifth-folio-romeo-and-juliet-cover.jpg?v=1778447329"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/5859\/6209\/collections\/stagelights_15_95f3b0dd-c4a2-4beb-b880-f84b33bbb918.jpg?v=1787256218","url":"https:\/\/fifthfolio.com\/collections\/leonard-bernstein.oembed","provider":"FIFTH FOLIO","version":"1.0","type":"link"}