Sophie Redfern | Research

Research

Sophie is an active researcher specializing in twentieth-century American music and dance

She has particular expertise in the life and music of Leonard Bernstein

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Selected Publications

Sophie Redfern, Eastman Studies in Music,

Rochester University Press, 2021, 323pp.

**CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Winner**

The formative early ballets of West Side Story creators Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins explored in detail for the very first time.

Drawing extensively on previously unpublished archival documents, Bernstein and Robbins: The Early Ballets provides a richly detailed and original historical account of the creation, premiere, and reception of Fancy Free and Facsimile. The result is a new understanding of Bernstein, Robbins, and this period in their lives.

Boydell & Brewer

Now out in paperback

Edited by Edward Campbell and Peter O'Hagan, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 564pp.

Entries authored:

Ballet Dancing and Stravinsky; Choreography, Choreographers and Dancers; The American Ballet; Ballets Ida Rubinstein; Adolph Bolm; Pierre Brasseur; Enrico Cecchetti; Lucia Chase; Anton Dolin; Mikhail Fokine; Elie Gagnebin; Berenice Holmes; Stansilav Idzikowski; Tamara Karsavina; Lincoln Kirstein; Serge Lifar; Lydia Lopokova; Alicia Markova; Léonide Massine; Bronislava Nijinska; Vaslav Nijinsky; Zhenya Nikitina; Alexander Orlov; Ruth Page; Maria Piltz; George and Ludmilla Pitoëff; Marie Rambert; Elise Reiman; Nicolas Remisoff; Ida Rubinstein; Lydia Sokolova; Jean Villard

Cambridge University Press

Edited by Christopher Dingle,

Cambridge University Press, 2019, 826pp.

Chapter authored:

Old Divisions and New Debates: Music Criticism in Post-War America, pp. 671–92

Cambridge University Press