“Music... can name the unnameable and convey the unfathomable.” Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
Leonard Bernstein was an American conductor, composer, pianist, pedagogue, and musical educator. Browse our sheet music and scores, and explore all his ground-breaking works with Stretta Music today!
Bernstein studied music at Harvard and conducting with Sergei Koussevitzky at Tanglewood. His international conducting career got off to a quick start, when he jumped-in for Bruno Walter to conduct the New York Philharmonic. In the following years, he not only became music director of the New York Philharmonic, but he was also the first American to be guest conductor for numerous orchestras in Europe and around the world, including Vienna, London, Berlin, Boston, Prague, Israel, and many more.
His last concerts in 1989 and 1990 were of great importance. On Christmas Day 1989, just a few weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he conducted one of the most impactful performances of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. He made a small, yet decisive change to Schiller’s text in the finale, “Ode to Joy”, the chorus and soloists sang “Freedom”, instead of “Joy”, which was a strong political statement. He also conducted the same work in June 1990, at the final concert of the Prague Spring Festival, only six months after the fall of the communist regime in former Czechoslovakia. Both concerts are still considered symbols of new found freedom, and have had a lasting impact on music history to this day.
Leonard Bernstein quickly recognized the power of the new, emerging medium, television. From as early as the 1950s, he brought music education programmes for both young and old to people’s living rooms all around America. His most popular series was the ’Young People’s Concerts with the New York Philharmonic’, which enjoyed 53 episodes. Bernstein was also instrumental in popularising modern American classical music, and he regularly performed works by Aaron Copland and many other American composers.
Bernstein was a polystylist who used elements of both classical and popular music, whichever served him best at any particular moment. His compositions often have a tonal basis, a pronounced irregular or off-beat rhythm, and creative, unusual instrumentation. He often uses several languages in his vocal compositions, most commonly English, Latin and Hebrew. He made a huge impact on American musical theatre, and his West Side Story is one of the most successful musicals of all time. Bernstein’s Three Symphonies, Sacred Music by Bernstein and Bernstein’s Chamber Music are also important additions to performance repertoire around the world today.
Somewhere
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 649412
Somewhere
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 649414
for: Choir
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 647949
Somewhere
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir part Alto
Item no.: 649413
for: Choir
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 348846
for: Voice (alto)
Single part(n)
Item no.: 349741
Somewhere
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 348847
for: Voice (soprano) a cappella
Single part(n)
Item no.: 349740
aus dem Musical "West-Side-Story"
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 271920
aus dem Musical "West-Side-Story"
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 271921
aus dem Musical "West-Side-Story"
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 364785
aus dem Musical "West-Side-Story"
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 351167
for: Lead Sheet
Item no.: 1364844
for: Solo and Mixed Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1212265
Broadway Choral
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1666597
Finale
for: Wind Band
Score
Item no.: 1211842
Boosey Choral Music Experience
for: Mixed Choir and Piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1212300
for: Mixed Choir and Piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1212198
From West Side Story
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1211480
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1211574
TV, Film, Musical und Show
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1212070
Make our Garden grow
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1212194
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1211726
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1211576
Book
Item no.: 1212005
Book
Item no.: 1212252
for: Women's Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1212294
Book
Item no.: 1212183
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1211742
I Feel Pretty Aus West Side St
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1212010
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1211498
TV, Film, Musical und Show
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1212051
aus West Side Story
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1211977
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1211519
From "West Side Story"
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 791957
from "West Side Story"
for: Double bass, piano
Music score
Item no.: 727939
from "West Side Story"
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 730661
from "West Side Story"
for: Double bass, piano
Music score
Item no.: 727935
From "West Side Story"
for: Viola, piano
Music score
Item no.: 791940
No. 2 from "Four Anniversaries"
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 791889
From "West Side Story"
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 791888
from West Side Story
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 753535
from West Side Story
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 744635
from West Side Story
for: Clarinet, piano
Music score
Item no.: 730329
No. 4 from "Four Anniversaries"
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 791890
from West Side Story
for: Clarinet, piano
Music score
Item no.: 730331
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