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1. Bernstein, Leonard
bernstein, leonard , 191890, American composer, conductor, and pianist, b. Lawrence, Mass Opera News)The bernstein Legacy.(leonard bernstein) ( Opera News)Perpetual Promise
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    Bernstein, Leonard I E n] Pronunciation Key Bernstein, Leonard , American composer, conductor, and pianist, b. Lawrence, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1939, and Curtis Institute of Music, 1941. A highly versatile musician, he was the composer of symphonic works (the Jeremiah Symphony, 1944; Age of Anxiety, Kaddish Symphony, 1963), song cycles, chamber music, ballets ( Fancy Free, 1944), musicals ( On the Town, Wonderful Town, Candide, West Side Story, 1957), opera ( Trouble in Tahiti, 1952), and choral music ( Chichester Psalms, 1965). His Mass See his The Joy of Music (1959) and The Infinite Variety of Music (1966); biographies by J. Briggs (1961), J. Gruen (1968), H. Burton (1994), and M. Secrest (1994). The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia,
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2. American Masters . Leonard Bernstein | PBS
at Carnegie Hall and the New York Philharmonic, leonard bernstein was a major force in twentieth century music was in becoming a concert pianist, but upon graduating he began to
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"In the beginning was the Note, and
the note was with God; and
whosoever can reach for that Note,
reach high, and bring it back to
us on earth...and to the extent
of his reach, partakes of the divine." A presence on Broadway, in Hollywood, at Carnegie Hall and the New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein was a major force in twentieth century music. His exuberant and dramatic style caught the heart of America, bringing classical music to thousands of people from diverse backgrounds. More than any American conductor before him, Bernstein expanded the audience of classical music while maintaining a deep artistic integrity.
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3. Essentials Of Music - Composers
COMPOSERS. leonard bernstein. Born August 25, 1918. Lawrence, MA. Died October 14, 1990. New York, NY. American composer, conductor, pianist and writer. He wrote in virtually all genres, often merging popular and classical styles.
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Born: August 25, 1918. Lawrence, MA
Died: October 14, 1990. New York, NY
American composer, conductor, pianist and writer. He wrote in virtually all genres, often merging popular and classical styles.

Leonard Bernstein was something of a musical polymath. In the world of Western art music he enjoyed a worldwide reputation as a conductor and a composer. He was also a great communicator, and perhaps more than anybody else he was able to explain music (especially Western art music) to a wide audience. At the same time, he created music for the Broadway stage, and successfully integrated popular styles (especially jazz) into his musical vocabulary.
For all this, Bernstein began his musical study rather late. His family bought a piano when he was ten years old, and he began study without real encouragement from his family. He progressed, studying with various teachers, and attended the prestigious Boston Latin School. He went from there to Harvard (1935-1939) and then to the Curtis Institute, where he studied conducting with Fritz Reiner and Serge Koussevitsky. He also kept one foot in the more popular world, playing with the Revuers in New York (a musical theater group that included Betty Comden and Adolph Green). By 1943 he was assistant to Arthur Rodzinski, the conductor of the New York Philharmonic. It was here that he gained national and worldwide attention, substituting for an ill Bruno Walter in a broadcast concert.
His conducting career progressed rapidly, and he was closely associated with the New York Philharmonic (where he served as music director from 1958 to 1969), the Israel Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He was in demand throughout the world and was the first American to conduct at Milan's La Scala opera house. Through most of his career he was a passionate supporter of contemporary music, though in his later years he also turned back to older styles, especially the late romantics such as

4. Bernstein, Leonard
This page contains basic and accurate biographical information and links to essays about the Early 20th Century composer bernstein. bernstein, leonard. PeriodEarly 20th Century The Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra. bernstein was a pianist, composer, and music educator of high standing in
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Bernstein, Leonard
Bernstein, Leonard
Period: Early 20th Century
Born: Sunday, August 25, 1918 in Lawrence, Massachusetts (USA)
Died: Sunday, October 14, 1990 in New York, New York (USA)
Nation of Origin: United States
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Major Works:
Orchestral:

Jeremiah
The Age of Anxiety Serenade for Violin and Orchestra,
Ballet: Fancy Free Musical Theater / Opera: West Side Story Candide Wonderful Town Other Information: Bernstein, from a family of Russian Jewish immigrants, was given the name Louis by his parents. Later, to avoid confusion with another Louis Bernstien, he changed his name to Leonard. He studied music at Harvard and at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. At Tanglewood he studied with Serge Koussevitzky, the noted bassist and conductor. In 1958 he became Music Director of the New York Philharmonic where he created a famous series of television broadcasts for children, The Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra. Bernstein was a pianist, composer, and music educator of high standing in 20th century music. He died of heart failure in October of 1990.

5. Bernstein's Studio - Life's Work - Biography
A TOTAL EMBRACE leonard bernstein is generally recognized as music’s mostexuberant hero. Composer, conductor, pianist, teacher, humanitarian, thinker
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Biography: Leonard Bernstein August 25, 1918 - October 14, 1990 “A TOTAL EMBRACE"
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From his earliest days, Bernstein was a true believer in the music of his time. The lasting popularity of the music of Mahler, Shostakovich and many other 20 th Leonard Bernstein came of age artistically as television became a part of everyday life, and he immediately saw its potential as a means to share and explore music with the mass audience. Through his imaginative programming ideas and his own engaging presence (most memorably, in the award-winning Young People s Concerts with the New York Philharmonic) he made even the most rigorous elements of classical music an adventure in which everyone could join. A generation of Americans appreciates music because of Bernstein. That he achieved this without ever seeming to patronize or lecture his audience only reaffirmed how personal and how deeply felt his convictions were. In 1967, Bernstein wrote, “Life without music is unthinkable, music without life is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.” The Birds The Cradle Will Rock When Bernstein was only 25, he held his first conducting post as Assistant Conductor of the New York Philharmonic. It was in this capacity that, on November 14, 1943, he made his historic conducting debut. With only a few hours notice, he substituted for the ailing Bruno Walter at a Carnegie Hall concert. Overnight he became famous. The performance was broadcast nationwide on CBS radio and the next day made the front-page of the New York Times. This acclaim quickly led to invitations to conduct orchestras all over the world.

6. Leonard Bernstein
A prodigiously talented composer, pianist, conductor and teacher, leonard Bernsteindid more to validate America s position in the musical world than virtually
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7. Reader's Companion To American History - -BERNSTEIN, LEONARD
The Reader s Companion to American History. bernstein, leonard. (19181990),conductor, composer, pianist, author, and educator. bernstein
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BERNSTEIN, LEONARD
, conductor, composer, pianist, author, and educator. Bernstein, born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, showed musical talent at a young age. He graduated from Harvard University, where he studied with Edward Burlingame Hill and Walter Piston, and continued his studies with Fritz Reiner at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. During the summers of 1940 and 1941, he worked at Tanglewood with Serge Koussevitzky, who became his mentor. In 1943, he became assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic. On November 14, 1943, Bernstein stepped in for the ailing Bruno Walter to conduct a nationally broadcast Philharmonic program. His vigorous, charismatic, and thoroughly prepared performance brought him overnight fame. Bernstein's First Symphony, subtitled Jeremiah, was chosen by the New York Music Critics' Circle as the best new American orchestral work of 1943-1944. That same season, his ballet, Fancy Free

8. Leonard Bernstein, A Total Embrace Of Music, Classical Notes, Peter Gutmann
leonard bernstein's fabulous career as a classical music composer, conductor, pianist, writer and teacher, with an annotated discography of his most significant works and recordings. On that day
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his early years influences big break first RCA recordings ... DG recordings and final year. For a version of this article without illustrations, please click here For rock, it was February 3, 1959. For American classical music, "The Day the Music Died" was October 14, 1990. It was on that day that we lost, all at once, our greatest conductor, our most influential teacher, one of our finest composers, one of our most accomplished pianists and our most famous native-born musician. On that day Leonard Bernstein died. Reacting to the news, composer Ned Rorem dismissed the cliché that the perpetually-youthful Bernstein was too young to die: "Lenny led four lives in one, so he was not 72 but 288." Indeed, while America has produced many great pianists, composers, conductors and teachers, Leonard Bernstein combined these talents to an unprecedented degree. He once told the New York Times "I don't want to spend my life, as Toscanini did, studying and restudying the same fifty pieces of music. It would bore me to death. I want to conduct. I want to play the piano. I want to write for Hollywood. I want to keep on trying to be, in the full sense of that wonderful word, a musician. I also want to teach. I want to write books and poetry. And I think I can still do justice to them all." Time dubbed him "the Renaissance Man."

9. Leonard Bernstein --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
, bernstein, leonard American conductor, composer, and pianist noted , leonardbernstein Primate Resource on this American composer, pianist, and conductor.
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10. ClassicalPlus Composer - Leonard Bernstein
Biography bernstein, leonard (Born; Lawrence, MA, 25 Aug 1918; Died;NewYork, 14 Oct 1990 ). American conductor, composer and pianist.
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11. Leonard Bernstein (Conductor) - Short Biography
October 14, 1990 – New York, USA The prodgiously gifted American conductor, composer,pianist, and teacher leonard (actually, Louis) bernstein took piano
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Leonard Bernstein (Conductor) Born: August 25, 1918 - Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA
Died: October 14, 1990 – New York, USA
The prodgiously gifted American conductor, composer, pianist, and teacher Leonard (actually, Louis) Bernstein took piano lessons as a boy and attended the Garrison and Boston Latin Schools. At Harvard University, he studied with Walter Piston, Edward Burlingame-Hill, and A. Tillman Merritt, among others. Before graduating in 1939, he made an unofficial conducting debut with his own incidental music to The Birds , and directed and performed in Marc Blitstein's The Cradle Will Rock . Then at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, he studied piano with Isabella Vengerova, conducting with Fritz Reiner, and orchestration with Randall Thompson.
In 1940, he studied at the Boston Symphony Orchestra 's newly created summer institute, Tanglewood, with the orchestra's conductor, Serge Koussevitzky . Bernstein later became Serge Koussevitzky 's conducting assistant.
Bernstein was appointed to his first permanent conducting post in 1943, as Assistant Conductor of the New York Philharmonic . In November 1943, Bernstein substituted on a few hours notice for the ailing

12. Bernstein, Leonard
bernstein, leonard , 191890, American composer, conductor, and pianist, b. Lawrence, Mass Opera News)The bernstein Legacy.(leonard bernstein) ( Opera News)Perpetual Promise
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    Bernstein, Leonard I E n] Pronunciation Key Bernstein, Leonard , American composer, conductor, and pianist, b. Lawrence, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1939, and Curtis Institute of Music, 1941. A highly versatile musician, he was the composer of symphonic works (the Jeremiah Symphony, 1944; Age of Anxiety, Kaddish Symphony, 1963), song cycles, chamber music, ballets ( Fancy Free, 1944), musicals ( On the Town, Wonderful Town, Candide, West Side Story, 1957), opera ( Trouble in Tahiti, 1952), and choral music ( Chichester Psalms, 1965). His Mass See his The Joy of Music (1959) and The Infinite Variety of Music (1966); biographies by J. Briggs (1961), J. Gruen (1968), H. Burton (1994), and M. Secrest (1994). The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia,
    Bernstein, Eduard

13. Bernstein, Leonard
Later, to avoid confusion with another Louis Bernstien, he changed his name toLeonard. bernstein was a pianist, composer, and music educator of high
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Bernstein, Leonard
Bernstein, Leonard
Period: Early 20th Century
Born: Sunday, August 25, 1918 in Lawrence, Massachusetts (USA)
Died: Sunday, October 14, 1990 in New York, New York (USA)
Nation of Origin: United States
CLICK HERE for CDs of this composer.

CLICK HERE for Books about this composer.

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Major Works:
Orchestral:

Jeremiah
The Age of Anxiety Serenade for Violin and Orchestra,
Ballet: Fancy Free Musical Theater / Opera: West Side Story Candide Wonderful Town Other Information: Bernstein, from a family of Russian Jewish immigrants, was given the name Louis by his parents. Later, to avoid confusion with another Louis Bernstien, he changed his name to Leonard. He studied music at Harvard and at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. At Tanglewood he studied with Serge Koussevitzky, the noted bassist and conductor. In 1958 he became Music Director of the New York Philharmonic where he created a famous series of television broadcasts for children, The Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra. Bernstein was a pianist, composer, and music educator of high standing in 20th century music. He died of heart failure in October of 1990.

14. PHONE-SOFT INTERNET DIRECTORY INTERNATIONAL:LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Arias and Bacarolles The leonard bernstein Pages - ( the first American musician to achieve world-wide recognition; known as a conductor, composer, pianist author and teacher.)
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  • Arias and Bacarolles - The Leonard Bernstein Pages - (the first American musician to achieve world-wide recognition; known as a conductor, composer, pianist,author and teacher.) Biographies, bibliographies, classical and theater works, features, MIDIs, links.
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  • West Side Story - Brief history of the Broadway musical by Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents, plus links to cast albums and sheet music.
  • West Side Story (1961) - Review of the 1961 film adaptation of the classic Broadway musical.
  • 15. Times Online - Entertainment
    The pianist Artur Rubinstein described leonard bernstein as “the greatest pianistamong conductors, the greatest conductor among composers, and the greatest
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    NI_MPU('middle'); West Side Story to the horrors of the 1971 Mass A new release, , gives us all the music that Bernstein made with Deutsche Grammophon on 22 CDs, divided into five boxed sets devoted to Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms, Sibelius (as well as some Elgar) and American music. They date from the late 1970s and 1980s, by which time his impulse to wring every drop of intensity from each phrase was becoming irresistible. The results are always highly personal. No one but Bernstein would dare to take the Nimrod Enigma Variations ALSO IN THIS SECTION Sibelius: Symphonies 5 and 6 Classical Joseph Calleja ADVERTISEMENT British Airways London Eye The perfect venue if you are looking for a unique way to celebrate and entertain in style DESIGN AWARD Designer of the Year 2004 Four people were nominated for their contribution to design - find out who won this year's award ARTS FIRST Competitions, special offers and priority tickets for

    16. CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography Of Leonard Bernstein
    bernstein, leonard Louis (b Lawrence, Mass., 1918; d NY, 1990). Amer. composer,conductor, and pianist. Educated Boston Latin Sch. and at Harvard Univ.
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    b Lawrence, Mass., 1918; d , Boston, 1949. Taught at Tanglewood 1951-5 in orch. and cond. dept.; part-time prof. of mus., Brandeis Univ. 1951-5. Peter Grimes . Cond. his own Trouble in Tahiti at Brandeis, 1952, and Cherubini's Medea (with Callas) at La Scala 1953 (the first Amer. to conduct there), returning to cond. La sonnambula Falstaff Jeremiah Fancy Free , with choreog. by Jerome Robbins, was perf. in NY. Later the same year his musical On the Town began a Broadway run of 463 perfs. He made a comic operetta from Voltaire's novel

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    18. Bernstein, Leonard (1918 - 1990), Komponist (Composer)
    Translate this page leonard bernstein (1918 - 1990) war pianist, Dirigent und Komponist, er wurde am25. August 1918 in Lawrence geboren und starb am 14. Oktober 1990 in New York.
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    19. Leonard Bernstein - Biography
    As a young pianist bernstein performed Copland s Piano Variations bernstein s writingswere published in The Joy of Music (1959), leonard Berstein s Young
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    Leonard Bernstein
    Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) was perhaps the most influential figure in classical music in the last half of the twentieth century. Composer, conductor, author, lecturer and often controversial media personality, the American-born Bernstein had a dramatic impact on the popular audience's acceptance and appreciation of classical music. His own work as a composer, particularly his scores for such Broadway musicals as West Side Story and On the Town, helped forge a new relationship between classical and popular music. For much of his career, including his legendary tenure as music director of the New York Philharmonic, Bernstein recorded exclusively for Columbia/CBS Masterworks, which is now Sony Classical. This vast legacy of recordings, featuring his work as both composer and conductor, is now being remastered and collected in a comprehensive new Sony Classical series entitled Bernstein Century. Bernstein was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He took piano lessons as a boy and attended the Garrison and Boston Latin schools. At Harvard University he studied with Walter Piston, Edward Burlingame-Hill and A. Tillman Merritt, among others. Before graduating in 1939, he made an unofficial conducting debut with his own incidental music to The Birds and directed and performed in Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock. Then, at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, he studied piano with Isabella Vengerova, conducting with Fritz Reiner and orchestration with Randall Thompson. In 1940 he studied at the Boston Symphony Orchestra's newly created

    20. Composer Biography - Bernstein, Leonard
    leonard bernstein. Upcoming Events bernstein s Symphony No. (b. Lawrence, MA , 25Aug 1918; d. New York, 14 Oct 1990), American conductor, composer and pianist.
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