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The collection contains correspondence, photographs, writings, personal business papers, the archives from Bernstein's corporate identity, Amberson Inc., scrapbooks, clippings and press materials, programs, datebooks and schedules, iconography, and fan mail. In addition, there are music manuscripts for many of his compositions, including The age of anxiety (Symphony no. 2); Candide; Chichester Psalms; Fancy free; Jeremiah (Symphony no. 1); On the waterfront; Prelude, fugue and riffs; Serenade (after Plato's "Symposium"); Trouble in Tahiti; West Side story; and Wonderful town.
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Composers, Musicians, Amberson Inc, Archives, Portraits, Conductors (Music), AutographsPeople
Carlos Moseley, Marcel Prawy (1911-2003), Serge Koussevitzky (1874-1951), Justus Frantz, Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957), Heinrich Gebhard (1878-1963), Phyllis Newman (1935-), Adolph Green, Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), James Levine (1943-), Betty Comden, Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999), William Schuman (1910-1992), Lillian Hellman (1905-1984), David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973), Jack Gottlieb, George Balanchine, Nancy Walker (1922-1992), Jennie Tourel, Craig Urquhart, Bruno Zirato, Felicia Bernstein, Dimitri Mitropoulos (1896-1960), Michael Tilson Thomas (1944-), Lukas Foss (1922-2009), Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Isaac Stern (1862-1932), Charles Munch (1891-1968), Stephen Wadsworth, Itzhak Perlman (1945-), Midori (1971-), Maria Callas (1923-1977), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925-), Bright Sheng (1955-), Rudolf Bing (1902-1997), Jerome Robbins, John Mauceri, Randall Thompson (1899-1984), Marc Blitzstein, Humphrey Burton (1931-), Aaron Copland (1900-1990), Kitty Carlisle (1910-2007), Marilyn Horne, Theodore Antoniou (1935-), Hildegard Behrens, Andre Watts, John McClure, Nadia Boulanger, Jerry Hadley, John Culshaw, Jimmy Carter (1924-), Quincy Jones (1933-), André Previn (1929-), Christa Ludwig, Seiji Ozawa (1935-), Abraham Kaplan (1931-), Franco Zeffirelli, Stephen Sondheim, Regina Resnik (1922-), David Diamond (1915-2005), Lucia Popp, Benny Goodman (1909-1986), Marian Anderson (1897-1993), Timothy Nolen, Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007), David Oppenheim (1922-2007)Places
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This collection is cataloged in two parts. Part I is cataloged on LCCN mm 99096358 and contains subject headings for correspondence; Part II is cataloged on LCCN 2009536078 and contains subject headings for photographs.
Open to research.
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Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress.
Certain restrictions to use or copying of materials may apply.
Beginning in 1953 and continuing until 1967, Leonard Bernstein gave many of his most significant music manuscripts to the Library; between 1965 and 1983, Bernstein gave 104 scrapbooks to the Library (five additional scrapbooks were given by Brandeis University in 1973). Other sources of material: Helen Coates, Bernstein's longtime friend and secretary, left Bernstein related items to the Library in her will (received in 1991); 1991 and 1993 gifts of the Springate Corporation (representatives of the Bernstein estate); in 1997, Burton Bernstein, brother of Leonard Bernstein, gave the Library ninety-five additional items to add to the Bernstein Collection, originally from their mother's apartment.
housed in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division of the Library of Congress.
Leonard Bernstein (b. August 25, 1918, in Lawrence, Massachusetts; d. October 14, 1990, in New York City) was an American composer, conductor, pianist, writer, and lecturer.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Performing Arts Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu998001
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