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Leonard Bernstein was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was the first American-born conductor to receive international acclaim. Bernstein was "one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history" according to music critic Donal Henahan. Bernstein's…
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Born 25 August 1918 · Died 14 October 1990 · Q152505
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2026· 6 entries
“And my decision has been, without too much thought, to spend most of the remaining energy and time the Lord grants me in education and sharing, as much as possible, with younger people.”
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“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”
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“s production of the Aristophanes play The Birds, performed in the original Greek. Bernstein recycled some of this music in future works. While a student, Bernstein composed for the Harvard Glee Club and was briefly its president while also serving as the unpaid pianist for Harvard Film Society”
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The Guardian: Aigul Akhmetshina: Mujer Fatal album review – classy and sensual in music from Bizet to Britten and Bernstein
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BroadwayWorld: Review: GERSHWIN, BERNSTEIN & AMERICAN MOSAIC with the NSO, Gianandrea Noseda Conductor and Renée Fleming at Wolf Trap
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2023· 4 entries
The Guardian: Maestro review – Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan make sweet music in dynamic Bernstein double act
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The Guardian: Wigs, kisses and the pope’s jumpsuit: can Maestro reveal the real Bernstein?
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The Guardian: Maestro review – Bradley Cooper’s head-flingingly heartfelt Leonard Bernstein biopic
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The Guardian: Bradley Cooper in ‘Jewface’ storm after Leonard Bernstein trailer reveals prosthetic nose
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2022· 1 entry
The Guardian: Candide review – Voltaire and Bernstein enter the social media era
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2018· 1 entry
Bernstein's Centennial year, Chichester Psalms was cited as the 5th-most performed concert work worldwide
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1998· 1 entry
“Leonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note”
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1990· 5 entries
Died 1990-10-14.
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Awarded Praemium Imperiale (1990).
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“The trouble with you and me, Ned, is that we want everyone in the world to personally love us, and of course that's impossible; you just don't meet everyone in the world.”
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Bernstein continued to have relationships with men until his death on October 14, 1990.
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“Callas? She was pure electricity.”
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Brahms-Preis (1988).
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1987· 2 entries
Awarded Ernst von Siemens Music Prize (1987).
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Won Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal (1987).
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1986· 7 entries
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1986).
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Released album “Symphony no. 3 / Quiet City”.
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Released album “Symphonien No. 36 "Linzer" / No. 38 "Prager"”.
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Released album “Symphonie no. 9”.
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Released album “Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 / Overture to King Stephen”.
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Released album “Symphonie Nr. 3”.
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Released album “Bernstein by Boston”.
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1985· 10 entries
Released album “Piano Concerto no. 2”.
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Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1985).
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Released album “1812 Overture / Marche slave / Hamlet / Capriccio italien”.
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Released album “Symphonien no. 35 »Haffner« / Symphonien no. 41 »Jupiter«”.
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Released album “Symphony no. 1 "Frühlingssymphonie" / Symphony no. 4”.
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Released album “Firebird Suite / Pulcinella Suite”.
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Released album “Symphonie no. 3 »Reinische« / Klavierkonzert”.
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Released album “Symphonie Nr. 1 "Frühling" / Klavierkonzert”.
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Released album “Bernstein conducts Bernstein: Symphonies nos. 1 & 2 "Jeremiah" · "The Age Of Anxiety"”.
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Released album “Paukenmesse”.
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1984· 6 entries
Released album “Klavierkonzert Nr. 1”.
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Released album “Complete Works for Solo Piano / El Salon Mexico”.
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Released album “Pétrouchka / Scenes de Ballet”.
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Released album “Symphonien Nr. 88 & 92 "Oxford"”.
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Released album “Symphony No. 6 "Pastorale" / "Leonore" Overture”.
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Released album “Symphonie No. 3 "Eroica"”.
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1983· 14 entries
Released album “Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue / Barber: Adagio for Strings / Copland: Appalachian Spring”.
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Released album “Violin Concerto”.
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Released album “Leonard Bernstein in Budapest”.
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Released album “Violin Concerto No. 2 / Rhapsodies Nos. 1-2”.
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Released album “CBS Great Performances, Volume 85: Symphony no. 2 in D major, op. 43”.
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Released album “Symphonie No. 2 / Akademische Festouvertüre”.
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“AIDS is not, repeat not, the Gay Plague it is so often made out to be; it is part of the human condition, and must be universally researched and annihilated.”
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Released album “Symphony no. 3 / Haydn Variations”.
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Released album “Double Concerto / Academic Festival Overture”.
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Released album “Third Piano Concerto / Choral Fantasy”.
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Released album “Tristan und Isolde”.
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Released album “Le Sacre du printemps / Pétrouchka”.
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Released album “Symphony No. 1”.
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Released album “Symphony No. 4 / Tragic Overture”.
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1982· 4 entries
Released album “Symphonie en ré mineur”.
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Awarded Ring of Honour of the City of Vienna (1982).
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Released album “Les Preludes / Hungarian Rhapsodies 1 & 2 / Mephisto Waltz”.
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Released album “Bernstein conducts Bernstein: Divertimento / Halil / On the Town / Three Meditations From "Mass"”.
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1981· 4 entries
Released album “Pictures at an Exhibition / Night on Bald Mountain”.
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Released album “The Firebird / Petrushka”.
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Released album “"Emperor" Piano Concerto no. 5”.
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Released album “1812 Overture / Marche Slave / Romeo and Juliet Overture”.
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1980· 4 entries
Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (1980).
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Released album “9 Symphonien”.
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Released album “Symphony No. 5”.
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Released album “Theresienmesse”.
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1978· 2 entries
Released album “Fidelio”.
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Bernstein moved back in with her and cared for her until her death on June 16, 1978.
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (1976).
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1974· 2 entries
Released album “Dybbuk (Complete Ballet)”.
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Released album “Bernstein: Trouble in Tahiti”.
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1973· 6 entries
Released album “The Planets”.
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Released album “Carmen (Highlights)”.
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“Bernstein on Beethoven: A Celebration in Vienna,”
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Released album “Leonard Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story / William Russo: Three Pieces for Blues Band and Orchestra”.
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Released album “Carmen (Suites 1 and 2) / Peer Gynt (Suites 1 and 2)”.
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Released album “Symphonies nos. 5 & 6”.
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1972· 2 entries
Released album “Le Sacre du printemps”.
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Released album “Offenbach: Gaîté Parisienne - Bizet: L'Arlésienne Suites Nos. 1 & 2”.
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1971· 2 entries
Conducted by Maurice Peress, directed by Gordon Davidson, and choreographed by Alvin Ailey
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Released album “Also sprach Zarathustra”.
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1970· 3 entries
Released album “Pedro e o Lôbo, op. 67”.
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Released album “The Copland Album: Appalachian Spring / Billy the Kid / El Salón México / Rodeo”.
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Released album “Symphony no. 1 / Luonnotar”.
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1969· 2 entries
As a large-scale theatrical work based on the Tridentine Mass of the Catholic Church, and in 1971, Bernstein invited the young composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz, who had recently opened the musical Godspell off-Broa
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Released album “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”.
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1968· 3 entries
Released album “Symphony no. 1 / Symphony no. 2”.
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For a production of Der Rosenkavalier and in 1970 for Otto Schenk's production of Beethoven's Fidelio
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Bernstein conducted the "Adagietto" movement from Mahler's Symphony No
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1967· 3 entries
Released album “Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90 "Italian" - Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759 "Unfinished"”.
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Released album “Symphony no. 3 in A minor, op. 56 "Scottish" / Die Hebriden Overture, op. 26”.
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Conducted a concert on Mount Scopus to commemorate the Reunification of Jerusalem, featuring Mahler's Symphony No
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1966· 4 entries
Released album “La Mer / Afternoon of a Faun / Daphnis and Chloe Suite no. 2”.
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis commissioned Bernstein to compose a work for the inauguration of the John F
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Bernstein began a lifelong rich relationship with the Vienna Philharmonic, conducting concerts as well as making his debut at the Vienna State Opera in Luchino Visconti's production of Falstaff with Dietrich Fischer-Dies
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Released album “Das Lied von der Erde”.
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1965· 8 entries
Conducted by Bernstein himself, and subsequently at Chichester Cathedral, conducted by the cathedral's Organist and Master of the Choristers, John Birch
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Awarded Léonie Sonning Music Prize (1965).
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Released album “Symphony No. 3 (Sinfonia Espansiva)”.
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Bernstein took a sabbatical year from the New York Philharmonic to concentrate on composition, during which he composed Chichester Psalms
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Which Bernstein conducted often
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Released album “Two Twentieth Century Masterpieces: Violin Concertos”.
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Released album “Chichester Psalms for Chorus and Orchestra / Facsimile—A Choreographic Essay”.
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Released album “Violin Concertos”.
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1964· 4 entries
Released album “Bernstein Conducts Favorite Rossini Overtures”.
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Released album “Grand Canyon Suite”.
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Released album “Piano Concerto no. 2 / Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini”.
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Bernstein conducted at the Metropolitan Opera for the first time in Franco Zeffirelli's production of Verdi's Falstaff
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1963· 5 entries
The day after the assassination of President John F
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Released album “Bernstein Conducts Tchaikovsky”.
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Released album “Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op. 67”.
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Released album “Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98”.
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Released album “Symphony No. 3 ‘Kaddish’”.
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1962· 7 entries
The New York Philharmonic moved from Carnegie Hall to its new home, Philharmonic Hall (now David Geffen Hall)
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Bernstein appeared on stage before a performance of the Brahms Piano Concerto No
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Released album “Bernstein: Jeremiah Symphony / Roy Harris: Third Symphony”.
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Released album “Carnival of the Animals/The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra”.
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Released album “Bartók: Two Rhapsodies for Violin and Orchestra / Berg: Violin Concerto”.
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Released album “Harold in Italy”.
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Released album “New World Symphony”.
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1961· 4 entries
When Bernstein led acclaimed Philharmonic concerts and engaged in cultural exchange
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Released album “Missa Solemnis”.
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Bernstein composed and conducted a fanfare for President John F
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Released album “Piano Concerto no. 4 in G major”.
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1960· 6 entries
Released album “Bernstein Plays Brubeck Plays Bernstein”.
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Released album “Four Concertos”.
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Bernstein prepared a suite of orchestral music from the show, titled Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, which continues to be popular with orchestras worldwide
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Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic marked the centennial of Gustav Mahler's birth with a series of performances
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Released album “Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf / Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite”.
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Released album “Piano Concerto no. 3 in C minor”.
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1959· 5 entries
Released album “Scheherazade”.
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Released album “Symphony no. 5, op. 47”.
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Released album “Rhapsody in Blue / An American in Paris”.
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Released album “Symphony No. 7”.
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The Department of State also sponsored Bernstein and the Philharmonic on a 50-concert tour through Europe and the Soviet Union, portions of which were filmed by the CBS Television Network
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1958· 3 entries
Released album “Concerto for Violin”.
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Released album “Symphony no. 4 in F minor, Op. 36”.
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Bernstein and Mitropoulos led the New York Philharmonic on its first tour south of the border, through 12 countries in Central and South America
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1957· 3 entries
Released album “Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major Op. 19 / Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D minor, BWV 1052”.
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Sharing the post jointly with Dimitri Mitropoulos until he took sole charge in 1958
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Conducted the inaugural concert of the Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv
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1956· 2 entries
At the Martin Beck Theatre, in a production directed by Tyrone Guthrie
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Released album “Fancy Free / El Salón México (1936)”.
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1955· 1 entry
Released album “Ravel: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra / Copland: Sonata for Piano / Bernstein: Seven Anniversaries”.
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1954· 1 entry
Bernstein presented the first of his television lectures for the CBS Television Network arts program Omnibus
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1953· 5 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Musical for Wonderful Town (1953).
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At the Winter Garden Theatre, starring Rosalind Russell in the role of Ruth Sherwood, Edie Adams as Eileen Sherwood, and George Gaynes as Robert Baker
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Released album “Song Cycles by Ravel and Mussorgsky”.
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Bernstein became the first American conductor to appear at La Scala in Milan, conducting Cherubini's Medea, with Maria Callas in the title role
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Bernstein wrote the score for the musical Wonderful Town on very short notice, with a book by Joseph A
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1952· 1 entry
Created the Brandeis Festival of the Creative Arts, where he conducted the premiere of Trouble in Tahiti on June 12 of that year
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1951· 2 entries
Bernstein composed Trouble in Tahiti, a one-act opera in seven scenes with an English libretto by the composer
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Bernstein became head of the orchestra and conducting departments at Tanglewood
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1950· 2 entries
Starred Jean Arthur as Peter Pan and Boris Karloff in the dual roles of George Darling and Captain Hook
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Bernstein composed incidental music for a Broadway production of J
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1949· 4 entries
Bernstein made his first television appearance as conductor with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall
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Bernstein conducted the world premiere of the Messiaen's Turangalîla-Symphonie, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the New York premiere in Carnegie Hall on the afternoon of December 10
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But only premiered in 1955, for jazz big band and solo clarinet
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Starring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Jules Munshin as the three sailors
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1947· 1 entry
Bernstein conducted in Tel Aviv for the first time, beginning a lifelong association with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, then known as the Palestine Symphony Orchestra
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1946· 2 entries
Bernstein conducted the European premiere of Fancy Free with the Ballet Theatre at the Royal Opera House in London
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Bernstein made his overseas debut with the Czech Philharmonic at the inaugural Prague Spring International Music Festival
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1944· 2 entries
With the Ballet Theatre (now the American Ballet Theatre) after completing the score only 8 days earlier at the old Metropolitan Opera House, with scenery by Oliver Smith and costumes by Kermit Love
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Bernstein conducted the premiere of his Symphony No
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1943· 1 entry
Having recently been appointed assistant conductor to Artur Rodziński of the New York Philharmonic, Bernstein made his major conducting debut at short notice—and without any rehearsal—after guest conductor Bruno Walter c
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1942· 1 entry
Bernstein performed the premiere of his first published work, Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, with clarinetist David Glazer at the Institute of Modern Art in Boston
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1940· 1 entry
Bernstein attended the inaugural year of the Berkshire Music Center, the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer home
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1937· 1 entry
Bernstein sat next to Aaron Copland at a dance recital at Town Hall in New York City
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1935· 1 entry
Bernstein enrolled at Harvard College, where he studied music with, among others, composers Edward Burlingame Hill and Walter Piston
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1932· 1 entry
Bernstein played Brahms's Rhapsody in G minor at his first public piano performance in Susan Williams's studio recital at the New England Conservatory of Music
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1918· 1 entry
Born 1918-08-25.
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1898· 1 entry
And arrived in the United States in 1905; she later worked at the woolen mills in Lawrence
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1892· 1 entry
In an ultra-Orthodox Jewish shtetl and wanted to become a rabbi, but after he was called up for military service, he left Russia for the United States in 1908 and initially worked at the Fulton Fish Market in New York Ci
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