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     • Leonard Bernstein is one of the greatest figures of the American 20th century music scene. A charismatic conductor and brilliant composer, Bernstein wrote many great works from operas and ballets to symphonies, that are still well-loved and much-performed to this day.
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   Is Bernstein a good composer?

   • Despite frequent criticism in his lifetime, Bernstein's music has endured into the 21st century and is regularly performed, discussed, and recorded around the world. In 2008–09, his 90th anniversary year, Bernstein was the second-most frequently performed American composer (behind Aaron Copland). [ 268 ]

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   What was Bernstein's music like?

   • Jazz pianist Bill Charlap says Bernstein's music for the theater was as serious as his music for the concert hall. "It's real through-composed music, all the way from the bottom to the top," he says. Bernstein's personal life was complex as well.

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   Where did Bernstein study music?

   • Nevertheless, Bernstein studied at Harvard and the Curtis Institute of Music, and spent summers at Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Orchestra 's seasonal home in the Berkshires. It was there that Bernstein came under the influence of conductor Serge Koussevitzky and composer Aaron Copland.

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   Was Bernstein a music director?

   • Only part of Bernstein's score was used in the film and additional songs were provided by Roger Edens. [ 62 ] From 1945 to 1947, Bernstein was the music director of the New York City Symphony, which had been founded the previous year by the conductor Leopold Stokowski.

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   Was Bernstein a symphonic composer?

   • Although Bernstein was a relatively unknown composer at the time, On the Town was an immediate hit on Broadway. The production made him the first symphonic composer to collaborate on an American musical.

   Leonard Bernstein’s music: 10 best works by the American maestro

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   What is Leonard Bernstein best known for?

   • Bernstein: Prelude, Fugue & Riffs: III. Riffs (for Everyone) (Live) The Overture to Candide is, West Side Story excepted, probably Leonard Bernstein’s best-known and certainly most instantly-recognisable piece. It’s a firecracker of an opener, setting the scene for this operetta, a direct descendant of those by Offenbach and Gilbert & Sullivan.

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   As a composer, Bernstein wrote in many genres, including symphonic and orchestral music, ballet, film and theatre music, choral works, opera, chamber music, and pieces for the piano.

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   Aug 6, 2018 · In 2018 the BBC Proms marks the centenary of the late, great Leonard Bernstein with a series of concerts featuring his music. So who was he?

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   Dec 21, 2023 · From the famous West Side Story and collaborations with Sondheim, to symphonies and serenades, here are the definitive top 10 pieces of music that Leonard Bernstein wrote.

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   Aug 24, 2018 · Born 100 years ago on Aug. 25, 1918, Bernstein was a larger-than-life character — on stage as a conductor, at the piano as a composer, on TV as an educator and in a sometimes tangled personal...

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   A Home for Boston Symphony Orchestra. Boston Symphony Hall was built in 1900 as a home for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In a recent season, the orchestra celebrated Bernstein’s...

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   Aug 25, 2024 · Scroll down to discover our selection of the best Bernstein works featuring ten masterpieces by the great composer. Listen to Leonard Bernstein Conducts West Side Story on Apple Music and...

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    Bernstein as Composer. by John Mauceri. Few composers capture their time and become the iconic voice of their age. Leonard Bernstein found his "voice" in the early 1940s and projected the sound of urban and urbane America from the period of World War II to the anti-war movements of the 1970s and the restoration of freedom in Europe, with the ...