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- "West Side Story" Motion Picture Soundtrack Out Now! The West Side Story Original Motion Picture Soundtrack features 21 songs from the film and will be released in both standard digital and physical (CD and vinyl) configurations, as well as a digital release in Dolby Atmos Music. Read December 3, 2021
- Honoring Debby King (1949-2021) It takes years of “practice, practice, practice” to get to Carnegie Hall, but once there, you would find your way to the stage in the company of Carnegie Hall’s artist liaison, Debby King. Read November 16, 2021
- The Path to MASS: Recollections from the First Celebrant I received a call in August of 1971 that auditions were being held in New York for the opening of the new Kennedy Center, with a new work being composed by Leonard Bernstein. Was I interested in auditioning? Yes! Read November 16, 2021
- Now Available: West Side Story - The Making of the Steven Spielberg Film Featuring never-before-seen unit photography, storyboards, costume and concept designs, and behind-the-scenes photos from Academy Award–winning director Steven Spielberg’s first musical, West Side Story: The Making of the Steven Spielberg Film is a loving chronicle of the years of effort that went into bringing a beloved story back to the screen for a new generation. Read November 10, 2021
- West Side Story (1961) Returns to the Big Screen West Side Story (1961) returns to the big screen for a special two-day event with exclusive insight from Turner Classic Movies: TCM Host Ben Mankiewicz. Read November 9, 2021
- Available Now! Deutsche Grammophone BTHVN - The Essential Set All of Beethoven’s music – on 95 discs To mark the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth in 2020, Deutsche Grammophon created the most comprehensive and complete set of his works ever issued. Read October 22, 2021
- New York Philharmonic Digital Archives Turns 10! This year the New York Philharmonic celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Leon Levy Digital Archives. The Digital Archives launched in 2011 with Leonard Bernstein’s marked scores, correspondence, photographs, and programs as its cornerstone collection. Ten years on, the Bernstein trove continues to be the focus of many researchers around the world. Here are ten of our favorite LB items from the online collection. Read October 13, 2021
- New Recording: LSO Live 'Candide' Marin Alsop leads the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a new recording of Bernstein’s operetta 'Candide'. Read September 23, 2021
- West Side Story (2021) Theatrical Trailer Watch the brand-new trailer for Steven Spielberg’s WEST SIDE STORY. See the film only in theaters December 10. Read September 15, 2021
- Celebrating Photographer Ruth Orkin's Centennial September 3, 2021, marks the centennial of the birth of the great American photographer Ruth Orkin (1921-1985). Read September 3, 2021
- PBS to Rebroadcast Ravinia Festival's MASS Over the coming months, public television stations will schedule broadcasts of Great Performances: LEONARD BERNSTEIN MASS, the Ravinia Festival’s highly acclaimed 2019 production conducted by Marin Alsop and featuring Tony Award winner Paulo Szot as the Celebrant. Read August 24, 2021
- Sony Classical Releases Leonard Bernstein’s MASS (Remastered) for 50th Celebrating the Anniversary of its Premiere on September 8, 1971 at the Kennedy Center Originally commissioned by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis for the opening of the Kennedy Center, MASS was a unique theatrical experience – a fully-staged dramatic pageant that mixed sacred and secular texts and used various musical forms from classical, jazz, and rock to Hebraic and Broadway. Read August 24, 2021
- From the Archives: Vojtĕch Dyk Speaks About Bernstein’s MASS Project (as printed in the Fall/Winter 2016 issue of Prelude, Fugue & Riffs) This past year the BUJOART production of MASS has been touring the Czech Republic to rave reviews. Vojtěech Dyk, who performs the role of the Celebrant, shares his thoughts about MASS. Read August 23, 2021
- From the Archives: MASS in the Czech Republic (as printed in the Spring/Summer 2016 issue of Prelude, Fugue & Riffs) Beginning in March this year and returning in the autumn, MASS has been touring the Czech Republic. This production was presented by BUJOART with Josef Buchta and Vojtěĕch Dyk (who is the Celebrant) as producers. Read August 23, 2021
- From the Archives: MASS Today In the past few years, Bernstein’s theatre piece MASS has found a new relevance and a growing audience. Since January 2000, MASS has had nearly 100 performances worldwide in cities as various as Sydney, Australia, Valencia, Spain, and Kalamazoo, Michigan; and in venues as diverse as Carnegie Hall in New York City, the Cathedral in Rouen, France, and the Vatican in Rome. Read August 23, 2021
- Isata Kanneh-Mason receives 2021 Leonard Bernstein Award Isata Kanneh-Mason receives 2021 Leonard Bernstein Award at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Read August 23, 2021
- Enjoy a special look at Steven Spielberg's WEST SIDE STORY, only in theaters, this December 10. Enjoy a special look at Steven Spielberg's WEST SIDE STORY, only in theaters, this December 10. Read August 2, 2021
- Ravinia Music Box to Open with Theater Experience Celebrating The Legacy Of Leonard Bernstein On Saturday, August 7, the Ravinia Festival and Jeffrey P. Haydon, its President and CEO, will officially unveil the Ravinia Music Box (RMB) and its immersive theater experience, titled Bernstein’s Answer, and fully open the experience center to the public. Read July 21, 2021
- From the Archives: MASS in Virginia As I approached the great honor of conducting Leonard Bernstein's MASS, I was reminded so strongly of my personal experiences with this extraordinary man during my student days at Juilliard. Read July 20, 2021
- From the Archives: Today's MASS As a seminarian, I was shaken to the core by these words and the all-enveloping theatrical experience of seeing Bernstein's MASS in 1973 at the Metropolitan Opera House. Ironically, critics then and now cite these lines when castigating the piece. But maybe times have finally caught up with Mass with today's sense of apprehension and insecurity, in government and finance as well as in matters of the spirit. Read July 20, 2021