New Box Set from Sony coming in April: Bernstein conducts Stravinsky
West Side Story to open TCM's Classic Film Festival with 60th Anniversary cast reunion
New Book: My West Side Story by George Chakiris
Leonard Bernstein Works for Socially Distanced Performances
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Featured Work
On the Waterfront (1954)
Leonard Bernstein wrote only one original film score in his career, for Elia Kazan’s classic film, “On the Waterfront,” starring Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy, a troubled longshoreman and one-time contender who’s gotten mixed up with the wrong crowd. Like Brando’s character, Bernstein’s score is a mixture of tenderness, violence, and nobility.
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Thus Spake Leonard Bernstein:
"Humor, in or out of music, can be strong and important … It can make you even have deep emotions, but it’s still humor; because it makes you feel good inside. And that’s what music is for."
Leonard Bernstein
Young People's Concert "Humor in Music"