John Perkel, holding up the yet-unperformed Bernstein string quartet. A concert at Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts next month will serve as the world premiere for an obscure composition from a ...

Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra will honor the US 250th anniversary with a May 16 concert at the Weill Center featuring ...

LENOX >> Twenty-five years ago, on Oct. 14, 1990, Leonard Bernstein died. Six weeks later, on Dec. 2, Aaron Copland followed him. An era in American music ended. Both men were giants at Tanglewood, ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. For a time in the 1960s, when Bernstein was Music Director of the New York Philharmonic, and the first American ...

Towards the end of his life, the great Leonard Bernstein expressed some regrets about not putting more of his time into composing music, as conducting and performing took up so much of his life. He ...

Responding to a personal invitation from President Abram Sachar, Leonard Bernstein agreed to serve on the faculty of the Music Department beginning in the spring of 1951. From 1951–1956, Leonard ...

Leonard Bernstein, the young American composer and conductor, last night conducted the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in the first performance of his work “The Age of Anxiety.” The performance was ...

Douglas Tirola’s archival documentary highlights Leonard Bernstein as a conductor-composer as well as a celebrity, cultural ...