Leonard Bernstein
Noun
Meaning
United States conductor and composer (1918-1990)
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1970–1979 Leonard Bernstein by Allan Warren After stepping down from the New York Philharmonic, Bernstein continued to appear with them in most years until his death, and he toured with them to Europe in 1976 and to Asia in 1979.
Background Genesis In 1947, Jerome Robbins approached Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Laurents about collaborating on a contemporary musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.
From the archives of Feinstein’s/54 Below, this 2020 set includes songs by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Leonard Bernstein, Billy Joel, Leonard Cohen and John Lennon and features her husband, composer Martin Silvestri, at the piano.
Cooper is also working on an untitled Leonard Bernstein feature for Netflix.
In his one-act opera Trouble in Tahiti (1952), Leonard Bernstein skewers American suburbia, which produces misery instead of happiness.
See Simeone, Nigel (2009) "Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story", pp. 85–92: 'Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal: Orchestrating the Show' Ramin, Kostal, and Bernstein are billed as orchestrators for the show.