Featured Work
MASS (1971)
The eclecticism of MASS's music reflects the multifaceted nature of Bernstein's career, with blues, rock, gospel, folk, Broadway and jazz idioms appearing side by side with 12-tone serialism, symphonic marches, solemn hymns, Middle Eastern dances, orchestral meditations, and lush chorales, all united in a single dramatic event with recurring musical motifs.
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:
"I am far from being a politician,
Fiercely proud to bear the name Musician;
Yet I am a political man, I do protest,
In the sense that I am too, a religious man.
For I count the artist to be a citizen,
A political contributor to the art
Of living together in this lovely land
And on this trembling planet…."
Leonard Bernstein
“Beauty and Truth Revisited”
The New York Times, August 8, 1988