Comments on: What Are 5 Composers That Wrote Similar Music ( Classical Or Show Broadway Music) To Leonard Bernstein?

By: greydoc6

greydoc6 — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:01:14 +0000

Oscar Hammerstein and Fritz Lowe wrote many Broadway musicalsand were contemporary to Bernstein. Style was different, though.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:58:51 +0000

I can’t tell you about Broadway music, because I don’t think there’s any Broadway composer who can touch West Side Story. It’s almost a completely different genre…
Three that spring to mind are Copland, Howard Hanson and William Schuman.

By: Alberich

Alberich — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:32:49 +0000

Certainly sounds like a “homework” question to me; here’s to get you started:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_Mu…
Alberich

By: kindclar

kindclar — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:40:32 +0000

Is this a question for a test or homework assignment? It has that ring to it. If so, you’ll have to do your own work.
I will give you a clue about one….he died in Feb. in his 80s.
Though I must tell you, there are few like Bernstein, but many were influenced by him