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1 day ago · One of Bernstein's classmates, both at Curtis and at Tanglewood, was Lukas Foss, who remained a lifelong friend and colleague. Bernstein returned to Tanglewood nearly every summer for the rest of his life to teach and conduct the young music students.
- Louis Bernstein, August 25, 1918, Lawrence, Massachusetts, U.S.
Apr 24, 2024 · James is a conductor, répétiteur, arranger, and tuba player. His musical interests include opera, film music, late-Romantic orchestral works (especially Mahler and Richard Strauss), and twentieth-century American composers such as Copland, John Adams, and John Williams. He read Music at Christ Church, Oxford, writing his postgraduate ...
May 7, 2024 · Bernstein played piano from age 10. He attended Boston Latin School; Harvard University (A.B., 1939), where he took courses in music theory with Arthur Tillman Merritt and counterpoint with Walter Piston; the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia (1939–41), where he studied conducting with Fritz Reiner and orchestration with Randall Thompson; and the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 9, 2024 · Nina Bernstein Simmons was on hand to introduce her father’s piece, the discovery of which, years ago (a single movement), lit a fire under retired Boston Symphony librarian John Perkel, who jumped through all the hoops necessary to getting the unpublished score performed in 2021 at Tanglewood’s Linde Center.
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May 1, 2024 · In 2009, Boston Symphony Orchestra librarian John Perkel heard about it from a friend at a party (Bernstein taught and performed at Tanglewood every summer for five decades, and was a student in its Tanglewood Music Center in 1940.)
Apr 28, 2024 · Retired Boston Symphony librarian John Perkel became part of an ongoing story when he learned that former BSO violinist Stanley Benson had come into possession of Leonard Bernstein’s autograph manuscript of “Music for String Quartet,” a supposedly single-movement piece the composer wrote in 1936 at the age of 18.
5 days ago · Webster has worked on a number of productions of “MASS” over the years—including his performance as the Celebrant during Bernstein’s 70 th birthday gala at the Tanglewood Music Festival and at the Vatican for Pope John Paul II. He is well-acquainted with the intricacies of the piece.
