Renowned composer ("West Side Story", "Candide", "On The Town"), conductor, arranger, pianist, educator, author, TV/radio host, educated at the Boston Latin School and Harvard University (BA) with Walter Piston. Edward Burlingame Hill and A. Tillman Merritt. He studied piano with Helen Coates, Heinrich Gebhard and Isabelle Vengerova...See full bio »
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The First Time
(2011)
(writer: "A Boy Like That/I Have A Love" - uncredited / music: "A Boy Like That" - uncredited, "America" - uncredited, "One Hand, One Heart" - uncredited)
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I Am Unicorn
(2011)
(music: "Somewhere" - uncredited, "Something's Coming" - uncredited)
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New York
(2011)
(writer: "I Love New York / New York, New York" - uncredited)
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Born This Way
(2011)
(writer: "I Feel Pretty/Unpretty" - uncredited)
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Leonard Bernstein's Candide, a Comic Operetta in Two Acts
(2005)
(music: "Overture", "Life Is Happiness Indeed", "The Best of All Possible Worlds", "Oh, Happy We", "It Must Be So" Candide's First Meditation, "Westphalia Chorale", "Dear Boy", "Auto da-fé", "This World" Candide's Lament, "Paris Waltz Scene", "Glitter and Be Gay", "You Were Dead, You Know", "I Am Easily Assimilated", "Quartet Finale", "Entr'acte", "My Love", "We are Women", "Alleluia", "Quiet", "Sheep's Song", "Ballad of Eldorado", "Bon Voyage", "What's the Use?", "You Were Dead, You Know" reprise, "Make Our Garden Grow" Finale / lyrics: "Auto da-fé", "I Am Easily Assimilated", "We are Women")
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The Poetry of Earth
(1976)
(performer: "Oedipus Rex" complete oratorio / "Oedipus Rex" complete oratorio)
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The Twentieth Century Crisis
(1976)
(performer: "Rhapsodie Espagnole fourth movement", "The Unanswered Question", "Violin Concerto" excerpt, "Symphony No. 9 in D Major Fourth Movement")
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The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity
(1976)
(performer: "Romeo Alone", "Festivities in Capulet's Palace", "Prelude and Liebestod", "Prelude a l'Apres Midi d'un Faune")
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Musical Semantics
(1976)
(performer: "Symphony No. 6 in F Major Pastoral")
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Musical Syntax
(1976)
(performer: "Symphony No. 40 in G minor" excerpts)
1976Bernstein in London
(TV documentary)
(music: "An American in Paris", "The Unanswered Question", "The Stars and Stripes Forever", "Rhapsody in Blue" / "A Lincoln Portrait")
1974That's Entertainment!
(documentary)
(music: "New York, New York" 1944 - uncredited)
1970Bernstein on Beethoven: A Celebration in Vienna
(TV special documentary)
(music: "Piano Concerto No. 1" excerpt / performer: "Fidelio" excerpts, "Symphony No. 9 in d Minor: Ode to Joy")
1970Liza
(TV movie)
(writer: "New York, New York")
1965La señora
(short)
("West Side Story" fragments)
1964Young People's Concerts: What Is Sonata Form?
(TV movie)
(performer: "Micaela's Air", "And I Love Her" partial, "Symphony No. 41 Jupiter" First Movement, "Symphony No. 1 Classical" First Movement)
1962Young People's Concerts: What Is a Melody?
(TV movie)
(performer: "Symphony No. 40 in G Minor 1st movement", "Wedding March" excerpt, "Symphony No. 6 Pathetique: First Movement" excerpt, "Concert Music for Strings and Brass", "Symphony No. 4: Finale", "Tristan und Isolde: Prelude")
1962Young People's Concerts: The Sound of a Hall
(TV movie)
(performer: "Roman Carnival Overture", "Catacoustical Measures", "Du Bist Die Ruh", "Concerto for Four Violins and Orchestra' first movement, "Tango Pasodoble from 'Facade' ", "1812 Overture" / "Tango Pasodoble from 'Facade' ")
1960The Creative Performer
(TV documentary)
("Concerto in D Major for Harpsichord", "Suicidio")
1959The Infinite Variety of Music
(TV movie)
(performer: "Daphnis and Chloe: Suite No. 2" opening, "Death and Transfiguration" finale, "Symphony No. 5 Fourth Movement", final trio from "Der Rosenkavalier")
1958Wonderful Town
(TV movie)
(music: "Christopher Street", "Ohio", "One Hundred Easy Ways", "What a Waste", "A Little Bit in Love", "Conversation Piece", "A Quiet Girl", "Conga!", "My Darlin' Eileen", "Swing!", "It's Love", "Ballet at the Village Vortex" Instrumental, "Wrong Note Rag", "Finale: It's Love reprise")
1958Young People's Concerts: What Does Music Mean
(TV movie)
(performer: "Don Quixote" excerpt, "William Tell Overture" excerpt, "Pictures at an Exhibition" excerpts, "Blue Danube Waltz" excerpt, "Tales from the Vienna Woods" excerpt, "Symphony No. 4" excerpt, "La Valse", "Waldstein Sonata' excerpt, "Theme from 'Dragnet'")
1954Rear Window
(music: "Excerpt from 'Fancy Free'" 1944 - uncredited)
1949On the Town
(music: "New York, New York", "Miss Turnstiles", "Come Up to My Place", "A Day in New York", "I Feel Like I'm Not Out of Bed Yet" - uncredited)
"I have only once before in my life ever had to submit to a soloist's totally new and incompatible view, and that was the last time I accompanied Mr. Gould. But this time, the discrepancies between our views are so great that I feel I must make this small disclaimer." (from his remarks to the audience...
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Trivia:
Served as music director of the New York Philharmonic from 1958 to 1969; took a one-year sabbatical leave in 1964-1965. Was named laureate conductor for life when he stepped down from the music director's post.
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