Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918– October 14, 1990) was an American composer and conductor. He was born Louis Bernstein in Lawrence, Massachusetts to Ukrainian Jewish parents. He is best known for conducting the New York Philharmonic and composing West Side Story and Candide.
Bernstein was gay.
He was a heavy smoker who had emphysema. He died of a heart attack in New York City.
Influences
Bernstein stated composers like Aaron Copland, Dimitri Mitropoulos, George Gershwin, Gustav Mahler, Kurt Weill, Sergei Koussevitzky, Randall Thompson, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern and Robert Schumann as influences.
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Leonard Bernstein and Benny Goodman in rehearsal, ca. 1940–1949
1943 Nov 14 NYPhil Bernstein
Photo of Bernstein by Carl Van Vechten (1944)
Bernstein conducting the New York City Symphony (1945)
Publicity photo of Leonard Bernstein.
L–R: Elizabeth Taylor, Carmen Gutierrez, Marilyn Cooper, and Carol Lawrence from the original Broadway cast sing "I Feel Pretty" (1957)
Bernstein at the piano, annotating a musical score, 1955
Bernstein with members of the New York Philharmonic rehearsing for a television broadcast, c. 1958
Bernstein during a visit to Finland, 1959
Bernstein in Amsterdam, 1968
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