Where to start with Leonard Bernstein?

Where to start with Leonard Bernstein? : r/classicalmusic - Reddit

I would suggest ten “great” works (possibly controversial, I think these ten will be his lasting legacy), five theater and five non-theater.

Best Leonard Bernstein Works: 10 Essential Pieces - uDiscover Music

Best Leonard Bernstein Works: 10 Essential Pieces · 10: Symphony No. 1 “Jeremiah” (1942) · 9: Prelude, Fugue and Riffs (1949) · 8: Candide (1956) · 7: Fancy Free ( ...

What Leonard Bernstein Should You Listen To? - The New York Times

Bernstein's output with the Vienna Philharmonic is vast, but if you want a starting point, it's “Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 4,” an ...

10 great recordings by 'Maestro' Leonard Bernstein - YourClassical

'The Rite of Spring' (Igor Stravinsky) · Leonard Bernstein: Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" with the New York Philharmonic ; Symphony No. 5 ( ...

Leonard Bernstein's music: 10 best works by the American maestro

Bernstein's first foray into musical theatre, On the Town was born from a ballet called Fancy Free, that the composer scored the same year to ...

Which Leonard Bernstein composition do you find the most ... - Quora

So my favorites of his compositions are generally those of the 1940s and '50s. The Symphony No. 2, Fancy Free, Facsimile, West Side Story, ...

The Top 5 Works Of Leonard Bernstein - NYFA

As I begin to write about the talented Leonard Bernstein I can't help but hum the tune to "Jet Song" from his famous and notable show West ...

Full Orchestra - Works | Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins first collaborated in the mid-1940s on the instantly popular ballet Fancy Free, commissioned by American Ballet Theatre.

The best works by Leonard Bernstein - Classical-Music.com

Bernstein's almost-an-opera musical, West Side Story, set in New York is his masterpiece. Inspired by Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, it's ...

List of compositions by Leonard Bernstein - Wikipedia

1 Ballet 2 Opera 3 Musicals 4 Incidental music and other theatre 5 Film scores 6 Orchestral 7 Choral 8 Chamber music 9 Vocal music 10 Piano music 11 Other music

The Essential Leonard Bernstein | San Francisco Classical Voice

Over the course of his career, Bernstein recorded much of the standard repertoire twice: With the New York Philharmonic in the 1960s, and again ...

Works | Leonard Bernstein

In 1976, Leonard Bernstein and lyricist Alan Jay Lerner collaborated on the musical "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue", which ran for only seven performances on ...

About this Collection | Leonard Bernstein - Library of Congress

Green was one of Bernstein's closest friends, starting at their first meeting at Camp Onato as teenagers. Bernstein became an occasional accompanist for The ...

Books - Leonard Bernstein: A Guide to Resources at the Library of ...

This classic work is perhaps Bernstein's finest collection of conversations on the meaning and wonder of music. This book is a must for all music fans who wish ...

Leonard Bernstein conducting - Good-Music-Guide.com

In addition to the rightly recommended CSO Shosty, I would add that Lenny's recordings of the American classics with the NYPO are essential ...

Essential Recordings with Leonard Bernstein as Conductor | Page 2

First & foremost, I'd strongly recommend Bernstein's Beethoven Eroica, and specifically the earlier New York Philharmonic performance on ...

The Music of Leonard Bernstein

Yet Bernstein was also attempting far more "serious" theatrical entertainment. Between Peter Pan and Wonderful Town he'd written an opera. Here ...

Leonard Bernstein: A Life Lived for Music - Google Arts & Culture

This photograph, taken in 1952, shows Bernstein preparing the orchestra before a performance of his opera Trouble in Tahiti, which premiered at the Brandeis ...

BSO | Leonard Bernstein - Boston Symphony Orchestra

At Tanglewood in summer 1940, Bernstein was mentored by both Copland and Koussevitzky and led the Berkshire Music Center Orchestra many times, including a ...

Leonard Bernstein - Wikipedia

Leonard Bernstein ; West Side Story, which continues to be regularly performed worldwide, and has been adapted into two (1961 and 2021) feature films, three ...