Featured Work
Symphony No. 1: Jeremiah (1942)
Leonard Bernstein composed his Symphony No. 1: Jeremiah in 1942 as a programmatic work inspired by the biblical prophet Jeremiah, culminating in a third movement that sets passages from the Book of Lamentations in the Hebrew Bible for mezzo-soprano and orchestra.
The Leonard Bernstein Office Mission
The Leonard Bernstein Office (LBO) sustains and strengthens Leonard Bernstein’s legacy by inspiring global engagement with his work as a composer, conductor, educator, and humanitarian. Through licensing, promotion, music editing, and publishing, the LBO strives to communicate his lifelong devotion to the transformative power and joy of music.
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Thus Spake Leonard Bernstein:
"I believe that from the earth emerges a musical poetry that is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that these sources cause to exist a phonology of music, which evolves from the universal, and is known as the harmonic series."
-Leonard Bernstein