Leonard Bernstein's Peter Pan Friday, December 02, 2011
In 1950, Leonard Bernstein wrote songs and incidental music for J M Barrie’s play “Peter Pan”, which opened on Broadway on April 24, 1950. There had been six previous Broadway productions of this popular story between 1905 and 1928, so this was the seventh and newest telling of the story. The tour was cancelled mid-run, and Bernstein’s music for it was largely forgotten, overshadowed by the 1954 “Peter Pan”, the music for which was written by Mark Charlap and Jule Styne, and  starred Mary Martin as Peter Pan. In 2001, the conductor Alexander Frey approached the Leonard Bernstein Office with the proposal to record Bernstein’s score for the 1950 “Peter Pan”. The recording proved to be a success. Here is the collection of vocal selections for Bernstein’s “Peter Pan”, available for the first time in recent memory. If you have heard the recording, you will be delighted with these vocal selections. If you have not, it will be worth giving the recording a listen! For the table of contents, see our website at stantons.com, or call us at 1-800-42- MUSIC for more information.