Von dieser Musik bekam nicht mal der Komponist selbst genug! 😄 Leonard Bernsteins erstes Musical "On the town" basiert auf einem Ballett, das er selbst zuvor geschrieben hat 👯‍♂️ Am 28. Dezember 1944 feierte die Neubearbeitung in New York Premiere und ebnete Bernstein damit den Weg zur Broadwaylegende. ▶️ Ihr hört "Three Dance Episodes" mit dem Münchner Rundfunkorchester unter Dirigent Joseph R. Olefirowicz. | ARD Klassik

An excerpt from "Leonard Bernstein's Kaddish Symphony": Actor Jaye Ladymore performs as the Speaker, alongside the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia Festival. Watch the full symphony this Monday, August 21 at 9/8c on PBS, part of Great Performances l PBS: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/leonard-bernsteins-kaddish-symphony-about/14953/ | Marin Alsop

Leonard Bernsteins Operette „Candide“ floppte zwar zunächst, er glaubte aber an das Werk und ließ es einige Zeit später zum Musical umarbeiten – mit vollem Erfolg! 🎭🎶 Allein die Ouvertüre überzeugt mit großem musikalischem Witz und kompositorischer Finesse. 🤩 | WDR Sinfonieorchester

The great conductor Leopold Stokowski was born on April 18, 1882. He was best known for being the music director of The Philadelphia Orchestra. We share with you this excerpt from the 1969 Young People's Concert "Bach Transmogrified", in which Leonard Bernstein introduces Stokowski to conduct the New York Philharmonic in his own transcription of Bach's "Little Fugue." | Leonard Bernstein

Today, we celebrate the anniversary of birth of Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau (1903-1991)! In February of 1946, Arrau hosted a party after performing Brahms D Minor Piano Concerto with Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York City Symphony. At the party, Bernstein met one of Arrau's piano students, the 24-year-old Felicia Montealegre. Five years later, the two married on September 9, 1951. We share with you an excerpt from the 1976 Amnesty International concert in which Arrau performs the final

On 9/9, we share with you Leonard Bernstein’s examination of the superstition surrounding “Ninth” symphonies. What's your favorite Ninth? In an introductory trailer to his Dmitri Shostakovich 9th Symphony performance with the Vienna Philharmonic / Wiener Philharmoniker, distributed by Deutsche Grammophon, Bernstein explains how Shostakovich “thumbed his nose” at the tradition of Ninth symphonies of the great composers. "The mystique of the number nine exerted itself in an odd way, so typical of