Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-xii

Acknowledgments

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-6

Part One - Bernstein, Politics, and the White House

pp 7-8

1 - Bernstein and Washington, DC: Introductory Reflections

pp 9-16

2 - Bernstein and the White House

pp 17-66

3 - Bernstein and McCarthyism

pp 67-85

4 - The New York Philharmonic European Tour of 1959 and Bernstein as Eisenhower's American Cultural Ambassador

pp 86-104

Part Two - Bernstein's Works in the Nation's Capital

pp 105-106

5 - West Side Stories: Washington, DC

pp 107-120

6 - Bernstein's Politics of Style: Listening for “Radical Chic” in Mass

pp 121-152

7 - “Screaming Gets You Nowhere”: Bernstein's Mass and the Politics of Peace

pp 153-186

8 - 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: Bernstein and Alan Jay Lerner's Musical History of the White House

pp 187-208

9 - Songfest: Bernstein's Monument to American Diversity

pp 209-236

10 - Political Expression and American Identity in Bernstein's 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Songfest, and Slava! A Political Overture

pp 237-266

11 - A Quiet Place in a Not-So-Quiet Nation: Gender, Sexuality, and Family in Bernstein's “American Opera”

pp 267-294

Selected Bibliography

pp 295-296

Notes on the Contributors

pp 297-300

Index of Bernstein's Works

pp 301-302

General Index

pp 303-314