Leonard Bernstein
How many symphonies did he create?
3 Symphonies
How many performances did On The Town run for?
463
Who is Leonard Bernstein?
A bisexual composer with 3 children and the husband of Chilean actress, Felicia Montealegre Cohn
Describe his big break
Coming in November 1943, he took over a concert at short notice from Bruno Walter
What did he study? Where? With Who?
Composition at Harvard with Walter Piston and Conducting at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia with Fritz Reiner
Who was the choreographer Bernstein worked with?
Jerome Robbins
Where was he born?
Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1918
Name an orchestra he worked on for 11 years
New York Philharmonic
2 Major works other than Candide and West Side Story
On The Town and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Which Shakespeare work was adapted? Type of setting?
Romeo and Juliet to a modern New York slum setting
Who did Bernstein collaborate with?
Stephen Sondheim
In the early 1940s, he attended summer schools at...
Tanglewood, Massachusetts, where he became Serge Koussevitzsky's assistant
