Leonard Bernstein (August 25 1918 – October 14 1990) was an American conductor, composer, and pianist. He was the first conductor born in the United States of America to receive world-wide acclaim, and is known for both his conducting of the New York Philharmonic, including the acclaimed "Young People's Concerts" series, and his multiple compositions, including "West Side Story", … Wikipedia
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The renowned American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein was raised in the Boston area and graduated from Harvard in 1939. fas-www.harvard.edu/~musicdpt/bernsteinindex.htm
The Leonard Bernstein Collection is one of the largest and most varied of the many special collections held by the Library of Congress Music Division. Over 400,000 items, including music and literary manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, audio and vi memory.loc.gov/ammem/lbhtml/lbhome.html
Mr. Bernstein's spokeswoman, Margaret Carson, said he died of a heart attack caused by progressive lung failure. www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0825.html
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Then...in 1958, shortly after his 40th birthday, Leonard Bernstein hired me as his Assistant when he formally became Music Director of the New York Philharmonic. www.leonardbernstein.com/lifeswork/discography/
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) was perhaps the most influential figure in classical music in the last half of the twentieth century. www.sonybmgmasterworks.com/artists/leonardbernstein/
