Featured Work
Songfest (1977)
Originally commissioned to be a work in celebration of the American Bicentennial Year (1976), Songfest was commissioned to draw a comprehensive picture of America's artistic past, as seen in 1976 through the eyes of a contemporary artist.
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:
“A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.”
-Leonard Bernstein
A Sabbatical Report, Infinite Variety of Music, 1962