Leonard Bernstein at 100

Featured Work

Wonderful Town (1953)

Wonderful Town is a Tony Award-winning musical comedy by Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green. The story follows two sisters from Ohio—aspiring writer Ruth and hopeful actress Eileen—as they navigate the highs and lows of chasing their dreams in New York City. Filled with lively dance numbers, sharp wit, and a dazzling Bernstein score, this charming classic is a love letter to ambition, adventure, and the magic of the city that never sleeps.

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The Leonard Bernstein Office Mission

The Leonard Bernstein Office (LBO) sustains and strengthens Leonard Bernstein’s legacy by inspiring global engagement with his work as a composer, conductor, educator, and humanitarian. Through licensing, promotion, music editing, and publishing, the LBO strives to communicate his lifelong devotion to the transformative power and joy of music.

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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)