RESEARCH
Sophie is an active researcher specialising in twentieth-century music and dance
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She has particular expertise in North American music and the life and work of Leonard Bernstein
Selected Publications
Sophie Redfern, Eastman Studies in Music,
Rochester University Press, 2021, 323pp.
**CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Winner**
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Now out in paperback
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The formative early ballets of West Side Story creators Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins explored in detail for the very first time.
​Sophie Redfern’s groundbreaking and compelling new book offers a vivid account of the often high-octane collaboration between Leonard Bernstein and the choreographer Jerome Robbins... [A] manifestly important book that will undoubtedly establish itself as a classic text in the fields of both Bernstein and ballet studies. (Music and Letters, 2022)
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Drawing extensively on previously unpublished archival documents, Bernstein and Robbins: The Early Ballets provides a richly detailed and original historical account of the creation, premiere, and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.​
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Edited by Elizabeth A. Wells,
Cambridge University Press, 2024, 360pp.
Edited by Edward Campbell and Peter O'Hagan, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 564pp.
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Entries authored:
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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
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Edited by Christopher Dingle,
Cambridge University Press, 2019, 826pp.
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Chapter authored:
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Old Divisions and New Debates: Music Criticism in Post-War America, pp. 671–92
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