{"product_id":"leonard-bernstein-signed-and-framed-photograph-to-adolph-green","title":"Leonard Bernstein Signed and Framed Photograph to Adolph Green","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSigned and inscribed photograph to Adolph Green and Phyllis Newman, Christmas 1959\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINSCRIPTION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“For beloved Adolph and Phyllis — A glorious 1960! Love, Lenny. Xmas ’59”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDESCRIPTION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Christmas present from Bernstein to his lyricist Adolph Green and Green’s wife, the actress and singer Phyllis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNewman. The print shows Bernstein at work, baton in hand, in a dark sweater. It is housed in a dark leather easel\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eframe with gilt-tooled borders of the period; whether Bernstein or the Greens chose the frame is unknown, though\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ea bare 8 × 10 would have been an unlikely Christmas gift, and the frame is consistent with the print having been\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003epresented in it. Leather shows wear at the corners; the print and inscription are clean and strong.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCONTEXT\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe photograph was inscribed at the close of one of the great years of Bernstein’s life. He was in his second\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eseason as music director of the New York Philharmonic, fresh from the orchestra’s triumphant 1959 tour of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEurope and the Soviet Union, where Burton describes Moscow music-lovers mobbing him just to touch him.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSimon \u0026amp; Schuster had published his first book, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Joy of Music\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, that November, and the family had just bought\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eits first country house in Connecticut. For the Greens, 1960 would indeed be glorious: it was the year Adolph and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePhyllis married.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGreen was no ordinary friend. Burton traces the relationship to the summer of 1937 at Camp Onota in the\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBerkshires, where Bernstein, the camp’s young music counselor, cast Green as the Pirate King in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Pirates of\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePenzance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. By 1939 Bernstein was living in Green’s East Ninth Street sublet while Green performed with the\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRevuers at the Village Vanguard; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn the Town\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWonderful Town\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e followed. The Greens remained part of the\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003esmall inner circle the Bernsteins dined with regularly, living a few blocks apart, and Green and Newman were\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eamong the last friends to visit the Dakota in October 1990.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CentralHardware","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67939444654446,"sku":null,"price":4999.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/6959\/1918\/files\/1ybp6ot_png_46f737f3-5932-46b5-a5e6-2abe26e57c07.png?v=1793390219","url":"https:\/\/www.broadwayposters.com\/products\/leonard-bernstein-signed-and-framed-photograph-to-adolph-green","provider":"BroadwayPosters.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}