Watch the next installment of the Leonard Bernstein rehearsal video that the world hasn’t seen: Bernstein rehearsing Aaron Copland’s 3rd Symphony with the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, just before his final concert with them on August 14, 1990. (Part 2 of 3)
Leonard Bernstein says Olga Koussevitzky hadn't mentioned Serge's failing health on the phone; yet, somehow he "knew" that he had to rush back to Boston. Bernstein got one last chance to talk with his beloved conducting mentor. Listen to this exclusive audio clip of Bernstein.
"These last six weeks have been the happiest and most productive of my life," writes twenty-two-year-old Leonard Bernstein to Serge Koussevitzky, following a momentous summer at Tanglewood Music Festival in 1940.
So how did Leonard Bernstein meet Serge Koussevitzky, and how did Koussevitzky decide to take Bernstein under his wing? Find out more in this primer.
Leonard Bernstein describes Serge Koussevitzky to interviewer John Gruen during the summer of 1967. Listen to tapes Gruen recorded as notes for his biography of Bernstein, made available to the public this year, only on Classical.org, official digital partner of the Bernstein Centennial.
"Tanglewood is not a school, in the strict sense. It does not offer courses, degrees, credits," Leonard Bernstein said at the opening exercises in 1951. "Tanglewood is a musical universe..."
Seventy years ago, Leonard Bernstein began a conducting tour of Europe, marking a critical development point for him, as a musician and a human being, and for a world reeling from war.
In what was perhaps a predecessor of "Teacher Appreciation" week, Bernstein says to appreciate teachers, using the examples of those who taught him. Watch this priceless clip from Young People's Concert #24.
Young musicians in Manchester, England shine, performing Anniversaries for Piano and other Leonard Bernstein's compositions, blogs Nina Bernstein Simmons.
