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.
The Leonard Bernstein Office Mission
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Thus Spake Leonard Bernstein:
“A composer has to have an inner road map; he has to know what the next destination is going to be, in other words, he's got to know what the next note has to be, he must convey to us a sense of rightness, a sense that whatever note succeeds that last is the only possible note that can rightly happen at that instant.”
-Leonard Bernstein, 1954