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Leonard Bernstein (/ ˈ b ɜːr n s t aɪ n / BURN-styne; [1] born Louis Bernstein; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was the first American-born conductor to receive international ...
Montealegre met composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein in 1946 at a party given by Claudio Arrau. [10] After their first engagement to be married was broken off, she had a relationship with actor Richard Hart until his death on January 2, 1951. [51] [52] She and Bernstein married on September 9, 1951, and had three children: Jamie, Alexander, and ...
The Skin of Our Teeth (1964): an aborted work from which Bernstein took material to use in his "Chichester Psalms" Alarums and Flourishes (1980): an aborted work from which Bernstein took material to use in "A Quiet Place" Tucker: an aborted concept for a musical version of the 1988 film "Tucker: The Man and His Dream"
Felicia died of cancer on June 16,1978, according to the Leonard Bernstein Office. She passed away at the couple's home in East Hampton, Long Island, The New York Times reported. Felicia was just ...
The new Netflix film tracks the life of the great conductor Leonard Bernstein, ... until Montealegre's death in 1978. "You are a homosexual and may never change," she wrote at the time. "You don ...
1976: Leonard leaves Felicia to live in California with his lover. Leonard fell in love with Tom Cothran, the music director of a San Francisco classical radio station in 1971, and began a years ...
Bernstein conducted the Ninth Symphony one last time with soloists Lucia Popp, soprano, Ute Trekel-Burckhardt, contralto, Wiesław Ochman, tenor, and Sergej Kopčák [Wikidata], bass, at the Prague Spring Festival [69] with the Czech Philharmonic and Prague Philharmonic Choir [cs; de] in June 1990; he died four months later in October of the ...
Bernstein brought the New York Philharmonic to Detroit in 1960 and 1963 and to Ann Arbor’s Hill Auditorium in 1963 and 1967. In 1964, he also added an honorary doctorate from the University of ...