RESEARCH
Sophie is an active researcher specialising in twentieth-century music and dance
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**
Now in paperback
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)
Drawing extensively on previously unpublished archival documents, Bernstein and Robbins: The Early Ballets provides a richly detailed and original historical account of the creation, premiere, and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.
Edited by Elizabeth A. Wells,
Cambridge University Press, 2024, 360pp.
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
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