Audio Slideshow: Leonard Bernstein at Work
Steve J. Sherman is a familiar face to concertgoers in New York – not as a performer but as the city's most prominent concert photographer. From mid-1980s until 2000, he was on call seven nights a week...
View ArticleBernstein and Musical Theatre
Leonard Bernstein was as comfortable composing for the Broadway stage as he was for the concert hall. Find out more about the music that Bernstein wrote for the theatre this week on Classics for...
View ArticleOperettas in English
Leonard Bernstein’s Candide is an American operetta. This week, Classics for Kids presents some more on operettas in English.Music used within the Program:Jacques Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld,...
View ArticleBernstein Conducting Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein conducts his own works on this week's trip into the Philharmonic archives. It features a choral work, his dramatic Third Symphony and two suites from The Dybbuk ballet.Program...
View ArticleAmerican Composers with a Boston Connection
This week on Classics for Kids you’ll enjoy the music of composers who all have a Boston connection.Music used within the program:Leonard Bernstein: Candide, OvertureWilliam Billings: "Chester"William...
View ArticleA Chorus of Conversation: What Is American Music?
Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Lukas Foss, and Irving Fine joke, argue, compliment each other, and agree to disagree, illustrating their points with musical examples. Behind the banter in this 1950...
View Article'S Wonderful Gershwin
On this edition of Reflections from the Keyboard, we remember George Gershwin.Gershwin (Sept. 26, 1898-July 11, 1937) took great pains to represent complex and powerful aspects of the American melting...
View ArticleLenny's Letters
Earlier this week, selections from the letters of Leonard Bernstein were released in book form for the first time. As WNYC’s Sara Fishko tells us in this edition of Fishko files, the letters are pure...
View ArticleBernstein's Debut
On this very day in November of 1943, Leonard Bernstein made a historic debut that played out like a hokey melodrama. WNYC’s Sara Fishko has more in this edition of Fishko Files…WNYC Production...
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