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- Chichester Cathedral honors 60th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms with landmark concert Tickets are now available for Chichester Cathedral's highly anticipated concert Together in Unity, on Saturday, May 17, 2025. Part of Chichester950, the year-long celebrations marking the Cathedral’s 950th year, the concert will celebrate the 60th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and unveil a major new musical commission to mark this milestone year. Read March 20, 2025
- My Love Affair with Rhapsody in Blue By John Bayless Where did it all begin? It began in a small town, somewhat desolate, on the windswept plains of West Texas. Read March 18, 2025
- From the Archives: Meeting President Carter From the Archives: Meeting President Carter by Nina Bernstein Simmons Read February 18, 2025
- The Leonard Bernstein Award goes to a YouTube star! Hayato Sumino is a pianist, composer, YouTuber and trained engineer who, at 29-years-old, has already become a sensation in his home country of Japan, filling concert halls with thousands of fans. He is now playing his way onto stages around the world - and will be honoured with the Leonard Bernstein Award, sponsored by the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe, at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in summer 2025. Read February 18, 2025
- 150 Years Young: A Lifelong Dialogue with Ravel 150 Years Young: A Lifelong Dialogue with Ravel by Michael Stephen Brown (2025) Read February 18, 2025
- Wonderful Town to be presented at 2025 New York City Center Encores! The classic 1953 musical comedy Wonderful Town has replaced The Wild Party as the final production of the 2025 City Center Encores! season. Read February 13, 2025
- Houston Grand Opera presents West Side Story The chance to experience this Broadway musical masterpiece in the opera house—its show-stopping tunes driven to ever-greater heights by HGO’s acclaimed orchestra and chorus—is not to be missed. Read January 15, 2025
- New Book: The Cambridge Companion to West Side Story Bringing together contemporary scholars in music, theatre, dance, literature, and performance, this Companion explores this explosive 1950s remake of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and its portrayal of the raw passion, rivalries, jealousy and rage that doom the young lovers to their tragic fate. Read January 14, 2025
- Remembering Landsberg, Germany Concert Remembering Landsberg, Germany Concert By Michael Bernstein Read January 14, 2025
- Resolving the Unresolvable Leonard Bernstein, with his librettist Stephen Wadsworth at his side, conceived his 1983 opera A Quiet Place as a sequel to Trouble in Tahiti, the one-act opera he composed in 1952. Read November 22, 2024
- Vote! We want to take this pivotal moment to encourage you to exercise their right to vote. Read October 29, 2024
- Ives Music: Alive and Kicking Jamie Bernstein reflects on her father's embrace of Charles Ives's music. Read October 24, 2024
- Artful Learning Update - Summer 2024 Summer symbolizes so many things: like barbecues, swimming, warm weather, and the long-awaited summer vacation for students and teachers. But when school is out, Artful Learning is working, full speed ahead. Read September 26, 2024
- From the Archives: Bernstein, the Reluctant Serialist Jack Gottlieb talks about Bernstein's use of tonality versus atonality in his works of both A Quiet Place and Trouble in Tahiti. Read September 25, 2024
- From the Archives: A Quiet Place A Quiet Place was Leonard Bernstein’s final work for the stage. The story of a fractured family struggling to come to grips with its past, and to reconcile, the opera was conceived with librettist Stephen Wadsworth as a sequel to Bernstein’s jazzy 1952 one-act opera Trouble in Tahiti. Read September 25, 2024
- Bernstein Goes Back to School Bernstein music is really getting around this year – and in large part it’s thanks to youth orchestras and educational institutions! All of the performances mentioned above, along with many, many others, are being presented by youth ensembles worldwide. Read September 24, 2024
- Leonard Bernstein the Composer – with Edward Seckerson Gramophone contributor and long-time admirer of the musician, Edward Seckerson discusses Bernstein’s wide-ranging compositional output. Read August 26, 2024
- From the Archives: What I Ask of You The following remarks are taken from the commencement speech delivered by Leonard Bernstein to the graduating class of Johns Hopkins University on May 30, 1980. Somewhat discouragingly, the Maestro's words remain relevant to us all today. Read August 26, 2024
- Have Bernstein Song, Will Travel My father loved words every bit as much as he loved notes – and best of all for him was any opportunity to put words and notes together. Read July 25, 2024
- Leonard Bernstein and Summer Music Festivals: A Legacy of Excellence and Inspiration Leonard Bernstein loved summer. The combination of warm weather, fresh corn on the cob, and the opportunity to make music outdoors – especially with young people – brought out his deepest exuberance and joy. Throughout his life, Bernstein participated in numerous prestigious summer music festivals worldwide. His involvement in these festivals not only showcased his exceptional talents, but also inspired generations of musicians and music lovers. Read June 26, 2024