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Irving Ned Landesman (15 July 1919 – 20 February 2011)〔William Grimes ("Jay Landesman, Beat Writer and Editor, Dies at 91" ), ''New York Times'', 28 February 2011〕 was an American publisher, nightclub proprietor, writer, and long-time London resident. ==With the Beats== Born in St. Louis, Missouri, the youngest of four children〔, Western Historical Manuscripts Collection, University of Missouri-St Louis〕 born to Benjamin Landesman, an immigrant Jewish artist from Berlin, and his wife Beatrice,〔Robert J. Duffy ("Jay Landesman: Founder of Gaslight Square's Crystal Palace" ), ''St. Louis Beacon'', 21 February 2011〕 who dealt in antiques.〔Robert A. Cohn ("Jay Landesman, operator of famed Crystal Palace, dies at 91" ), ''St. Louis Jewish Light'', 24 February 2011〕 Their son changed his name to Jay after reading ''The Great Gatsby'' during his teens. While running an art gallery and salon in the Little Bohemia district of St Louis,〔("Jay Landesman" ), University of Missouri-St Louis website〕 Landesman founded the quarterly magazine ''Neurotica'' in 1948, based in New York City from 1949, which became an outlet for the Beat Generation of writers including John Clellon Holmes, Carl Solomon (as Carl Goy), Larry Rivers, Judith Malina and Allen Ginsberg.〔(Obituary: Jay Landesman ), ''Daily Telegraph'', 28 February 2011〕 Dedicated to rather risqué material for its era, "contributors moved among the bases of art, sex, and neuroticism",〔James Campbell ("Behind the Beat: Remembering ''Neurotica'', the short-lived journal of the Beats", ''Boston Review'' ), October/November 1999〕 the magazine closed in 1952 after the censors objected to an article on castration by Gershon Legman〔 who by then had taken over the magazine. Back in St Louis, Landesman with his brother〔Craig Sams (Obituary: Jay Landesman ), ''The Guardian'', 25 February 2011〕 opened the Crystal Palace nightclub in 1952;〔 the venue was previously used as a gay bar called Dante's Inferno.〔Tom Vallance ("Jay Landesman: Writer, editor and publisher who championed the Beats and graced London’s bohemian set" ), ''The Independent'', 16 March 2011〕 At Crystal Palace, Lenny Bruce, Woody Allen and Barbra Streisand made early appearances. A musical ''The Nervous Set'', based on an unpublished novel by Landesman, with a book co-written with Theodore J. Flicker,〔 premiered 10 March 1959 at Crystal Palace, St Louis,〔("Crystal Palace" ), University of Missouri-St Louis website〕 by now based in Gaslight Square and enjoyed a long run there, but lasted only 23 performances on Broadway.〔Lorraine Treanor ("Jay Landesman has made his final exit" ), ''DC Theatre Scene'' (website), 22 February 2011〕 Featuring Larry Hagman in a leading role, the show in New York suffered from mixed reviews.〔 Despite its overall failure in a more prominent location several of the songs written for the work by his second wife Fran Landesman and the composer Thomas Wolf - "Ballad of the Sad Young Men" and "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" - have endured.〔 Dedicated to the emergence of the Beat Generation, and sometimes described as the movement's only musical, it has an unusual form with a jazz quartet performing onstage and a downbeat ending.〔 Landesman followed ''The Nervous Set'' by collaborating with writer Nelson Algren on a musical version, again featuring lyrics by his wife, of Algren's novel ''A Walk on the Wild Side'' which opened at Crystal Palace in 1960.〔 A cabaret review ''Food for Thought'', with the Landesmans working with librettist Arnold Weinstein, opened in St. Louis in 1962 and transferred to Yale.〔Adrian Dannatt (Obituary: Arnold Weinstein ), ''The Independent'' 27 September 2005〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jay Landesman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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