While a student at Harvard, Bernstein composed works for small ensemble, including the Piano Trio (1937), the Sonata for Violin and Piano (1940)-written for fellow student Raphael Hillyer-and his very first published work, the Sonata for Clarinet and Piano (1941–42).
He was a renowned pianist and accompanist, and throughout his life he enjoyed the intimate musical connections he made writing and playing chamber works with his fellow artists. Even the earliest of these works are imbued with his unmistakable compositional style. Not as familiar, but no less significant, is his output of chamber music. Leonard Bernstein's major concert and stage works are well known and performed often. Lindback Foundation Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation Eugene and Emily Grant Ruth and Peter Laibson and Laura and Mark Rosenthal.“Rule Number One in orchestral playing is: it’s all chamber music.”
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Special thanks to The Leonard Bernstein Office the Bernstein Family Jacobs Music and the Milken Archive of Jewish Music, and USC Shoah Foundation. Marshall Robin and Mark Rubenstein and The Savitz Family Foundation. Additional support provided by Judith Creed and Robert Schwartz Jill and Mark Fishman Robert and Marjie Kargman David G. Major support provided by The Asper Foundation CHG Charitable Trust as recommended by Carole Haas Gravagno The Harvey Goodstein Charitable Foundation Lindy Communities The Leslie Miller and Richard Worley Family Foundation and Cheryl and Philip Milstein.
Leonard Bernstein: The Power of Music has been made possible in part by major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor. (5) Courtesy of The Leonard Bernstein Office, Inc. National Museum of American Jewish History, Gift of Sylvia Stein. (4) "Symphony No.3 Kaddish" written and conducted by Leonard Bernstein, 1963. (3) Courtesy of The Leonard Bernstein Office, Inc. By permission of The Leonard Bernstein Office, Inc. Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. 1921 Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (2) Leonard Bernstein’s annotated Copy of Romeo and Juliet. Images, Clockwise from Top Left: (1) Leonard Bernstein with his parents, Jennie and Samuel Bernstein, c. Friedman-Abeles, Billy Rose Theatre Collection. © Made available online with permission of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. It features interactive media and sound installations along approximately 100 historic artifacts, including Bernstein’s piano, marked-up scores, conducting suit, annotated copy of Romeo and Juliet used for the development of West Side Story, personal family Judaica, composing easel, and a number of objects from his studio. The exhibition explores his Jewish identity and social activism in the context of his position as an American conductor and his works as a composer. Visitors will find an individual who expressed the restlessness, anxiety, fear, and hope of an American Jew living through World War II and the Holocaust, Vietnam, and turbulent social change-what Bernstein referred to as his “search for a solution to the 20th‐century crisis of faith.” Audiences may be familiar with many of Bernstein’s works, notably West Side Story, but not necessarily with how he responded to the political and social crises of his day. Leonard Bernstein: The Power of Music is the first large-scale museum exhibition to illustrate Leonard Bernstein’s life, Jewish identity, and social activism.
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