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.
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Family
Born: 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 Calendar
My 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.
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Works
Theatre/Film
West Side Story
On the Waterfront (Oscar nominated)
Candide
On the Town
Wonderful Town
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Orchestral
Opera: Trouble in Tahiti
3 Symphonies: Age of Anxiety, Jeremiah, Kaddish
Ballet: Fancy Free
The Chichester Psalms
Mass
Various other orchestral works
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.
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