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- Countdown to Leonard Bernstein's 100th Birthday - August 25, 2018 International summer festivals focus on Leonard Bernstein in his centennial year, with a series of prestigious events around the birthday itself on August 25. Read July 24, 2018
- The Wall Street Journal: The Maestro at the Piano Leonard Bernstein was the king of the podium, but he also played piano on the side—well enough to have had a full-time solo career had he wished it. Read June 26, 2018
- Deutsche Grammophon releases 100th Anniversary Limited Edition Leonard Bernstein: The Complete Works At the heart of DG’s Bernstein 100 project is Bernstein: Complete Works – The first complete edition of recordings of Bernstein’s published works, making available less familiar pieces such as his chamber music or his song cycles alongside West Side Story and the Chichester Psalms. It also includes a number of new recordings made expressly for this edition. Read May 4, 2018
- Bernstein – Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon and Decca Bernstein – Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon and Decca contains all Bernstein’s recordings as a conductor for DG and Decca, together with his complete DG/Unitel DVD catalogue. Read February 23, 2018
- Vanity Fair: Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, and the Road to West Side Story When Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins met 75 years ago, they were young men hungry for their Big Break. Little did they know their partnership would make waves for decades to come. Read February 1, 2018
- Opera News: 'His Way' by William R. Braun Leonard Bernstein didn’t apply his protean talents to opera very often—but he made magic when he did. Read January 31, 2018
- Bernstein at the Grammys® Leonard Bernstein was represented at the GRAMMY® Awards this past weekend, with tribute concerts and performances, as well as a win for SONY Classical's™ box set "Leonard Bernstein - The Composer." Read January 29, 2018
- Explore The Bernstein Experience on Classical.org! Bernstein was a conductor, a pianist, a composer, a lyricist, a teacher, a poet, a writer, a father, a friend, a colleague, an activist, a humanist, and a concerned citizen. He was a man of his amazing times, whose echo still resounds, perhaps more loudly today than ever before. The Bernstein Experience, powered by Classical.org, aims to be as reflective of this Renaissance man as any experience without him here to host it himself could possibly be. Read January 25, 2018
- Lang Lang To Celebrate Leonard Bernstein: GRAMMY Salute To Classical Music Recognizing a synergetic opportunity, the Recording Academy and CAMI Music will produce GRAMMY Salute To Classical Music, a special GRAMMY Week event taking place in New York at Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium on Jan. 26, 2018. Read January 4, 2018
- PBS Now Streaming NY Philharmonic's New Year's Eve Gala "BERNSTEIN ON BROADWAY" In case you missed PBS's Live from Lincoln Center - "Bernstein on Broadway" this New Year's Eve, you can now stream the entire broadcast! In the show, stars from Broadway, including Annaleigh Ashford, Laura Osnes, Chris Jackson and Aaron Tveit joined the Philharmonic in tribute to the legendary composer. Read January 1, 2018
- The New Yorker: “West Side Story” and the American Idea of Getting Along From “West Side Story” I learned about tragedy, and love, and sex—there were broken hearts all over the place, like broken glass—and the idea that things can go very, very wrong, in an instant, but that the most important thing in the world was that we all learned to get along. Read December 21, 2017
- The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Honors Leonard Bernstein in New Exhibition To celebrate the centennial of America’s greatest classical composer and conductor, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is partnering with the GRAMMY Museum® on a new, exciting exhibition opening December 9th. Read December 9, 2017
- SONY Releases Leonard Bernstein Remastered Ahead of his centennial in 2018, Sony Classical has released a 100 CD box set of Leonard Bernstein's classic American Columbia recordings, remastered from their original 2- and multi-track analogue tapes. Read November 10, 2017
- Let the festivities begin! Leonard Bernstein at 100 The Leonard Bernstein at 100 Centennial celebrations kicked off this weekend! Read September 25, 2017
- TUNE IN MAY 9 AT 12PM ET FACEBOOK LIVE: Leonard Bernstein at 100 Centennial Press Event! Join Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, members of the Bernstein Family, and other guests for musical performances and an important announcement about centennial celebration programming around the world. Read May 3, 2017
- Finally Returning Bernstein’s Overdue Mahler It was more than 50 years overdue, but Leonard Bernstein’s score of Mahler’s “Das Lied von der Erde” was finally returned to the Vienna Philharmonic on Tuesday. Read March 28, 2017
- WNYC Studio 360 - American Icons: Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts Leonard Bernstein’s “Young People’s Concerts” with the New York Philharmonic were presented in Manhattan concert halls and broadcast live on national television for 14 seasons. There had been similar “music appreciation” efforts before, but Bernstein — 40 years old at the outset, deeply passionate about teaching, and a natural showman — made them into a reliably exciting franchise for family classical music viewing. The story of these iconic programs and how they were put together in the early, daring days of live TV is told by participants, Bernstein-watchers, family members, and inspired musicians. Read March 2, 2017
- How Leonard Bernstein Opposed Richard Nixon With 1973 "Anti-inaugural" Concert "... But at the exact same time a free and unofficial inauguration concert at the National Cathedral took place thanks to legendary conductor Leonard Bernstein. He led 'A Concert for Peace,' which became widely known as the 'Anti-inaugural Concert.'" via Laurie L. Dove for Howstuffworks Read January 20, 2017
- Review: The Adventures of ‘Candide,’ and of City Opera Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times reviews the latest production of Candide by the New York City Opera: "Since New York City Opera emerged from bankruptcy a year ago, it’s been hard to know what to make of it. Is this venture truly a renaissance of the venerable company that went out of business in 2013 after 70 adventurous years? Or should the quite variable productions that have been offered over the past year be seen as the first steps of a completely reconceived City Opera?" Read January 9, 2017
- "On The Town" with the Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony "On The Town" with the Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony In this classic American musical comedy, follow three wartime soldiers on 24-hour shore leave around the Big Apple, with music by Leonard Bernstein, and book and lyrics by the famous Betty Comden and Adolph Green. A talented musical theater cast will join the Symphony for this semi-staged event, with unforgettable show tunes like "New York, New York (it's a helluva town!)." May 25-29, 2016 at Davies Symphony Hall Read April 21, 2016