The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra had its eyes fixed on a better future this weekend, with two programs featuring music of hope ringing out in Steinmetz Hall at Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing ...
The children of composer Leonard Bernstein — Nina Bernstein Simmons, Alexander Bernstein and Jamie Bernstein — made a case for their father's music being performed at the Kennedy Center despite ...
Usually orchestras perform the last pieces in a composer’s repertoire, not the first. EPIC Concerts will mix things up when clarinetist Sergei Vassiliev and pianist Andrew Staupe perform “Clarinet ...
The writers are officers of the Leonard Bernstein Office. Our father, the composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, liked to tell us about the time Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis called to ask him to be ...
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) was the first great American orchestra conductor, leading the New York Philharmonic, to international acclaim. He composed music for symphonies, choral works, Broadway ...
Leonard Bernstein’s operetta Candide deserves its place of honor in the repertoire of any contemporary classical music company. Since its Broadway debut in 1956 as a musical, the complex yet ...
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Leonard Bernstein honoured by plaque for his work
A plaque is to be unveiled in a West Sussex cathedral to honour one of the greatest composers of the 20th Century. Leonard Bernstein, who wrote the music for West Side Story, was commissioned to score ...
Leonard Bernstein’s way with orchestras that wouldn’t give him what he wanted was usually imploring, even beseeching. He was disappointed—the musicians were not so much failing him, the conductor, as ...
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