Leonard Bernstein
Ballets:
- Fancy Free - Facsimiles - Dybbuk
what other genres did he write?
incidental music, songs, song cyles (I Hate Music)
Who did he marry?
- 1951 - Felicia Montealegre - chilean actress and pianist - 3 children
Chorus and orchestra:
- Chichester Psalms - Songfest - Mass
Later studies:
- Harvard University and the Curtis Institue for piano, orchestration, and conducting
Musicals:
- On the Town - West Side Story - Wonderful Town - Candide
Film score:
- On the Waterfront
Operas:
- Trouble in Tahiti - A Quiet Place
What did he do in 1966?
- became a conductor in Vienna - conducted to great acclaim - became one of the greatest conductors of the world
Musical influences:
- classical forms and idioms - American, Hispanic, Jewish elements - popular, jazz and musical theatre elements
Musical styles:
- fusion of popular and classical styles - vibrant orchestration - dissonant harmonic language (neo classical) - rhythms drawn form popular dance and jazz traditions
Awards?
- grammys - emmys - tonys
Early studies:
- piano at the New England Conservatory of Music
What happened in the early 1940's?
- sought out by director/choreographer, Jerome Robbins - wrote the ballet, Fancy Free for Robbins - worked on the comic musical, On the Town with Robbins - collaborated on West Side Story with Robbins
Orchestral Works:
- symphony no.1 "Jeremiah" - symphony no. 2 "The Age of Anxiety - symphony no. 3 "Kaddish" - Serenade
Date of birth:
1918
Date of death:
1990
Place of birth:
Lawrence, Massachusetts
Chamber music:
Prelude, Fugue and Riffs (clarinet and jazz ensemble)
Where did he become an assitant conductor?
Tangleweed festival
How did he get his New York Philharmonic debut?
the original conductor, Bruno Walters, fell ill and Bernstein was allowed to conduct