Daniel Abraham is Professor of Music at American University. Alicia Kopfstein-Penk is Adjunct Professorial Lecturer at American University. ANDREW H. WEAVER is Professor of Musicology at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. Alicia Kopfstein-Penk is Adjunct Professorial Lecturer at American University. ANDREW H. WEAVER is Professor of Musicology at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. Robert C. Lagueux is the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Graduate Studies and Faculty Development at Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He researches and publishes work on medieval music, liturgy, and drama, and more widely on pedagogy, teaching, and learning.

This collection of essays is cohesive, informative, and well researched, offering a unique scholarly perspective on one of America's best loved musicians.

• Introduction - Alicia Kopfstein-Penk and Andrew H. WeaverPart One. Bernstein, Politics, and the White HouseBernstein and Washington, DC: Introductory Reflections - Carol OjaBernstein and the White House - Alicia Kopfstein-PenkBernstein and McCarthyism - Barry SeldesThe New York Philharmonic European Tour of 1959 and Bernstein as Eisenhower's American Cultural Ambassador - Sarah Elaine NeillPart Two. Bernstein's Works in the Nation's CapitalWest Side Stories: Washington, DC - Elizabeth A. WellsBernstein's Politics of Style: Listening for "Radical Chic" in Mass - Katherine Baber"Screaming Gets You Nowhere": Bernstein's Mass and the Politics of Peace - Robert C. Lagueux1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: Bernstein and Alan Jay Lerner's Musical History of the White House - Elissa HarbertSongfest: Bernstein's Monument to American Diversity - Paul LairdPolitical Expression and American Identity in Bernstein's 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Songfest, and Slava! A Political Overture - Lars HelgertA Quiet Place in a Not-So-Quiet Nation: Gender, Sexuality, and Family in Bernstein's "American Opera" - Mari YoshiharaSelected BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

Daniel Abraham is Professor of Music at American University. Alicia Kopfstein-Penk is Adjunct Professorial Lecturer at American University. ANDREW H. WEAVER is Professor of Musicology at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. Alicia Kopfstein-Penk is Adjunct Professorial Lecturer at American University. ANDREW H. WEAVER is Professor of Musicology at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. Robert C. Lagueux is the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Graduate Studies and Faculty Development at Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He researches and publishes work on medieval music, liturgy, and drama, and more widely on pedagogy, teaching, and learning.

This collection of essays is cohesive, informative, and well researched, offering a unique scholarly perspective on one of America's best loved musicians.

• Introduction - Alicia Kopfstein-Penk and Andrew H. WeaverPart One. Bernstein, Politics, and the White HouseBernstein and Washington, DC: Introductory Reflections - Carol OjaBernstein and the White House - Alicia Kopfstein-PenkBernstein and McCarthyism - Barry SeldesThe New York Philharmonic European Tour of 1959 and Bernstein as Eisenhower's American Cultural Ambassador - Sarah Elaine NeillPart Two. Bernstein's Works in the Nation's CapitalWest Side Stories: Washington, DC - Elizabeth A. WellsBernstein's Politics of Style: Listening for "Radical Chic" in Mass - Katherine Baber"Screaming Gets You Nowhere": Bernstein's Mass and the Politics of Peace - Robert C. Lagueux1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: Bernstein and Alan Jay Lerner's Musical History of the White House - Elissa HarbertSongfest: Bernstein's Monument to American Diversity - Paul LairdPolitical Expression and American Identity in Bernstein's 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Songfest, and Slava! A Political Overture - Lars HelgertA Quiet Place in a Not-So-Quiet Nation: Gender, Sexuality, and Family in Bernstein's "American Opera" - Mari YoshiharaSelected BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

Daniel Abraham is Professor of Music at American University. Alicia Kopfstein-Penk is Adjunct Professorial Lecturer at American University. ANDREW H. WEAVER is Professor of Musicology at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. Alicia Kopfstein-Penk is Adjunct Professorial Lecturer at American University. ANDREW H. WEAVER is Professor of Musicology at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. Robert C. Lagueux is the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Graduate Studies and Faculty Development at Berklee College of Music, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He researches and publishes work on medieval music, liturgy, and drama, and more widely on pedagogy, teaching, and learning.

This collection of essays is cohesive, informative, and well researched, offering a unique scholarly perspective on one of America's best loved musicians.

• Introduction - Alicia Kopfstein-Penk and Andrew H. WeaverPart One. Bernstein, Politics, and the White HouseBernstein and Washington, DC: Introductory Reflections - Carol OjaBernstein and the White House - Alicia Kopfstein-PenkBernstein and McCarthyism - Barry SeldesThe New York Philharmonic European Tour of 1959 and Bernstein as Eisenhower's American Cultural Ambassador - Sarah Elaine NeillPart Two. Bernstein's Works in the Nation's CapitalWest Side Stories: Washington, DC - Elizabeth A. WellsBernstein's Politics of Style: Listening for "Radical Chic" in Mass - Katherine Baber"Screaming Gets You Nowhere": Bernstein's Mass and the Politics of Peace - Robert C. Lagueux1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: Bernstein and Alan Jay Lerner's Musical History of the White House - Elissa HarbertSongfest: Bernstein's Monument to American Diversity - Paul LairdPolitical Expression and American Identity in Bernstein's 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Songfest, and Slava! A Political Overture - Lars HelgertA Quiet Place in a Not-So-Quiet Nation: Gender, Sexuality, and Family in Bernstein's "American Opera" - Mari YoshiharaSelected BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex