Wonderful Town to be presented at 2025 New York City Center Encores!
Chichester Cathedral honors 60th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms with landmark concert
New Book: The Cambridge Companion to West Side Story
Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts now available on Carnegie Hall+
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Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1942)
The Sonata for Clarinet and Piano was Bernstein’s first published composition.
“There is no one like Leonard Bernstein. I love his beautiful melodies and fun rhythms.”
–Anthony McGill, Principal Clarinet, New York Philharmonic
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Thus Spake Leonard Bernstein:
"For me a conductor was a tiny little figure that I would see from the second balcony of Symphony Hall during all of those years of my teens. A barely discernible little figure, seen from very far away who was so glamorous and so inaccessible and special conducting a hundred odd men, that it never occurred to me that I could be such a thing."
-Leonard Bernstein (Peter Rosen interview 1977)