leonard bernstein

     

"Reaching for the Note" was the subtitle of a 1998 film about this American music legend who died in 1990

Trivia about leonard bernstein

  • This conductor, later seen on television, gained fame substituting on a 1943 New York Philharmonic radio broadcast
  • This "West Side Story" composer wrote the music for Jerome Robbins' ballet "Dybbuk"
  • He wrote the score for the 1954 film "On the Waterfront" 3 years before his Broadway smash "West Side Story"
  • In 1970 he revised his 1962 book "Young People's Concerts for Reading and Listening"
  • Oscar Levant said, "I think a lot of" this "West Side Story" composer "but not as much as he does"
  • He was conductor of the New York City Symphony before taking over the New York Philharmonic in 1958
  • Before becoming director of the N.Y. Philharmonic in 1958, he was music director of the NYC Center Orchestra
  • He's seen here in a typically passionate moment
  • His 75th birthday was celebrated posthumously in 1993 with video releases of his "Young People's Concerts"
  • "Maria":Stephen Sondheim & ____
  • In 1969 he was named Conductor Laureate for life of the New York Philharmonic
  • Associated with the New York Philharmonic for 40 years, he wrote the score to the film "On the Waterfront"
  • This American Jewish conductor & composer wrote "Jeremiah" & "Kaddish" symphonies
  • On Jan. 18, 1958 this conductor hosted the first of many "Young People's Concerts" on CBS
  • "The Age of Anxiety" is one of this composer's storied symphonies, though not a "West Side Story"
  • In the late 1950s he became the first U.S.-born conductor to head the New York Philharmonic
  • (AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE):Famous conductor who composed the following: (music from "Candide")