Leonard BERNSTEIN25 August 1918 - 14 October 1990 (age 72)
Leonard Bernstein was an American 20th century composer, writer, teacher and conductor. All of these activities he pursued to a remarkable degree with great energy and success.
click on the portrait for more information about it Portrait by Paul Helm © You can buy a quality print of this image at: IMAGEKIND FamilyBorn: Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA in 1918 .Parents first generation Jewish immigrants from Russia.Father: Sam Bernstein, businessman, initially discouraged Leonard's musical aspirations. Mother: Jennie Siblings: sister - Shirley Wife: Chilean actress Felicia Montealegre Children: 3 - Jamie, Alexander and Nina Death: Died 5 days after retiring. Pneumonia and lung cancer. Suffered from emphysema for a long time. Heavy smoker. Grave: Green Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York 
2010 Great Composers CalendarMy 2010 Great Composers calendar includes 12 composers from my series of classical composer portraits: Mozart, Rossini, Rimsky-Korsakov, Prokofiev, Debussy, Stravinsky, Bach, Bernstein, Bruckner, Mendelssohn, Puccini and Beethoven.Click on the image to see it in detail. 
WorksTheatre/FilmOrchestral Quotes- This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.- In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing. - I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer. Thanks to Brainyquote.com
Candide Overture: Leonard Bernstein conductingAmazon storeBooks, DVDs on Amazon.com (US)
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Links - where to go for more information - Library of Congress (The Leonard Bernstein Collection) - Leonard Bernstein - official site - A Total Embrace of Music - excellent article by Peter Gutmann Do you like this page? If so, please give it a thumbs up on Stumbleupon - or one of the bookmarking services below - to help others to find it. Thank you!  Top of page
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