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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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Correspondence, Composers, Musicians, Amberson Inc, Archives, Conductors (Music), Autographs, 1915-2009People
Carlos Moseley, Marcel Prawy (1911-2003), Serge Koussevitzky (1874-1951), Justus Frantz, Marc Blitzstein, Seymour Lipkin, Elie Siegmeister (1909-1991), Aaron Copland (1900-1990), Francis Thorne, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960), William Schuman (1910-1992), Adolph Green, Betty Comden, Irving Fine (1914-1962), Theodore Antoniou (1935-), James DePreist (1936-), Charles Ives (1874-1954), Harold Farberman (1929- Correspondence), Nicolas Nabokov (1903-1978), Pierre Boulez (1925-), Roger L. Stevens, Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), Nadia Boulanger, Darius Milhaud (1892-1974), Morton Gould (1913-1996), Eugene Ormandy (1899-1985), Jennie Tourel, Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983), Kent Nagano (1951-), Dimitri Mitropoulos (1896-1960), Carlos Chavez (1899-1978), Stephen Sondheim, Vernon Duke (1903-1969), Franco Zeffirelli, Harold Shapero (1920-), Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Walter Piston (1894-1976), Goddard Lieberson (1911-1977), Jule Styne (1905-1994), Igor Markevitch (1912-1983), Isaac Stern (1862-1932), Paul Hume (1915-2001), Seiji Ozawa (1935-), Richard Yardumian, Stephen Wadsworth, Johnny Green (1908-1989), Virgil Thomson (1896-1989), George Perle, Maurice Peress, Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007), Leo Smit (1921-1999), David Diamond (1915-2005), Karl Böhm (1894-1981), Wallingford Riegger (1885-1961), Andre Kostelanetz (1901-1980), Artur Rodzinski (1892-1958), James Yannatos, Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007), Ned Rorem (1923-), Jerome Robbins, Angelina Réaux, John MauceriPlaces
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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.
Access Advisory: Not all materials in this collection may be readily accessible; please request accessibility information well in advance of your visit http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/perform.contact
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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