HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LEONARD BERNSTEIN!
Enjoy a lovingly-curated Bernstein playlist (below).
“Rhapsody in Blue” from the keyboard, with the fearless Stanley Drucker on clarinet
Bernstein conducts “Prelude, Fugue and Riffs” on “Omnibus” in 1955
Bernstein and Aaron Copland create demo record of “Fancy Free” for Jerome Robbins. Stick around for commentary at the end, with self-incriminating interjection by Copland!
Bernstein’s sensational eleventh-hour debut with the New York Philharmonic, at 25, in 1943
An entire playlist of Bernstein rarities!
Conducting Haydn – with his face
Lauren Bacall sings “The Saga of Lenny,” lyrics by Stephen Sondheim (with apologies to Kurt Weill), for Bernstein’s 70th birthday celebration.
Bernstein’s death reported on ABC News in 1990.
Bernstein conducts his recently-composed “Candide Overture” on a televised Young People’s Concert in 1960
Bernstein conducts Mahler’s “Resurrection Symphony” as a memorial tribute, broadcast live, two days after the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qruHjywjE_g
Bernstein on the future of music, from one of his Harvard lectures. The answer is yes!
Bernstein celebrates the fall of the Berlin Wall with a multinational ensemble and Beethoven’s 9th

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