John Perkel, holding up the yet-unperformed Bernstein string quartet. A concert at Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts next month will serve as the world premiere for an obscure composition from a ...

Leonard Bernstein, the young American composer and conductor, last night conducted the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in the first performance of his work “The Age of Anxiety.” The performance was ...

Take Yo-Yo Ma, Gustavo Dudamel and Lang Lang – combine them and multiply by two. Now you have the cultural presence of Leonard Bernstein, said Travis Cross, the conductor of the UCLA Wind Ensemble and ...

Towards the end of his life, the great Leonard Bernstein expressed some regrets about not putting more of his time into composing music, as conducting and performing took up so much of his life. He ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Celebrating Leonard Bernstein will feature the TCU Symphony Orchestra, conducted ...

Few composers have a canon as diverse and far-reaching as Leonard Bernstein, whose influence can still be heard in the opera, Broadway musicals, ballet, chamber music, and film. As the youngest ...

This is the first part of a two-part series on the life and career of Leonard Bernstein. Leonard Bernstein, the American composer, conductor, pianist and teacher, who was born 100 years ago on August ...

2 Russians, 2 Jews, and a Puerto Rican walk into a bar ...

Responding to a personal invitation from President Abram Sachar, Leonard Bernstein agreed to serve on the faculty of the Music Department beginning in the spring of 1951. From 1951–1956, Leonard ...

When Leonard Bernstein was appointed music director of the New York Philharmonic in 1958 he was hailed as America’s first maestro. Four years earlier, he had held a large part of the nation spellbound ...

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