“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.
Choral
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 189533
Vocal Selections
for: Voice
Book
Item no.: 294720
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 207829
Tonight from West Side Story
for: Instrumental
CD-ROM
Item no.: 1211896
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Book
Item no.: 348906
from West Side Story
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Book
Item no.: 416789
New Sounds for Concert Band
for: Concert Band/Harmonie/Fanfare
Score
Item no.: 883377
New Sounds for Concert Band
for: Fanfare
Score, Parts
Item no.: 881806
A Political Overture
Great Band Transcriptions
Boosey and Hawkes Concert Band 406
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 906830
A Political Overture
Great Band Transcriptions
Boosey and Hawkes Concert Band 407
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1212411
Musiktheaterstück für Sänger, Schauspieler und Tänzer
for: Soloists, choir, children's choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 208975
from "West Side Story"
Quarter Military Band QMB 562
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 657300
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 466139
for: Soloists, Mixed Choir [SATB] and Piano
Choir score
Item no.: 578004
Ausschnitte
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 475798
aus dem Musical "West-Side-Story"
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Additional part
Item no.: 364789
Ballet
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 366654
Zehn Songs aus Leonard Bernsteins legendärem Musical für Tenorsaxophon solo
Hal Leonard Instrumental Play Along
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat)
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 602659
for: 2 pianos
Ensemble score
Item no.: 578291
Quarter Military Band QMB 511
for: Symphonic Band
Score
Item no.: 167898
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 197668
Arrangement for piano solo by Leonard Bernstein
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 131584
Finale
for: Marching band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 185453
Arrangement for young band
for: Youth concert band
Score
Item no.: 471671
Jazz Play-Along Volume 92
10 favorite Songs including "Somewhere", "Cool", "Mambo" etc.
for: Voice; piano ad lib.
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 561643
from 'West Side Story'
for piano and vocal
Vocal Range: c'-g''
for: Voice, piano
Single edition
Item no.: 144460
Prüfungsliteratur
for: Trombone, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 216955
for: 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba (quintet); latin percussion ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 611603
Solo arrangements of 10 songs with CD accompaniment
for: Flute
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 602695
Prüfungsliteratur
for: Tuba, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 198483
for mixed chorus and piano
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 168332
Broadway Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Item no.: 611969
The Masterworks Library
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 241808
Prüfungsliteratur
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 216952
Gefühlvolle Ballade aus "West Side Story" für Streichorchester, Schlagwerk und Klavier
for: Strings, percussion, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 646756
Somewhere
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 649414
aus Fancy Free
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 615289
Symphonie Nr. 2
for: Piano, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 277170
French Choruses
for: Mixed Choir or 7 Soloists [SSMezTTBB] a Cappella, Percussion ad lib
Choir score
Item no.: 225180
Something's Coming / Tonight
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano [keyboard]
Choir score
Item no.: 161344
Quarter Military Band QMB 435
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 159251
Musical-Querschnitt für gemischten Chor und Begleitung
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 145119
Finale aus der Symphonie Nr.1 Jeremiah
for: Mezzo-Soprano and Piano
Book
Item no.: 198566
Arrangement for young band
for: Youth concert band
Score
Item no.: 471609
aus "West Side Story"
for: Voice, piano
Single edition
Item no.: 416788
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 1207
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 372273
New Sounds for Concert Band 20
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 557620
Song aus dem Musical "West Side Story" arrangiert für Blasorchester
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 657792
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