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Leonard BERNSTEIN

25 August 1918 - 14 October 1990 (age 72)

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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

2009 Great Composers Calendar

(includes Leonard Bernstein)


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

    Berstein 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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