“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
America
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 154106
Something's coming / Tonight
for: Mixed Choir [SAB] and Piano, CD or Instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 1212272
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 207829
Original version from the Musical Candide
for: Soloists, Mixed Choir [SATB] and Piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 584786
Something's Coming / Tonight
for: Treble Choir [SSA] and Piano [CD or Instruments]
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 166215
Warm Up
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 901199
from the Musical Candide
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 162408
It must be so
for: Mixed Choir [SATB], Solo [S/T] and Piano
Choir score
Item no.: 151544
for: Male choir
OTHER
Item no.: 1341405
for: Male choir
OTHER
Item no.: 1341407
A Wonderful Town
for: Piano/Vocal/Chords
Item no.: 1529628
for: Male choir
OTHER
Item no.: 1341403
for: Male choir
OTHER
Item no.: 1341408
Wonderful Town
for: Piano/Vocal/Chords
Item no.: 1529635
On the Town
for: Piano/Vocal/Chords
Item no.: 1529556
for: Piano/Vocal/Chords
Item no.: 1386581
for: Male choir
OTHER
Item no.: 1341404
for: Male choir
OTHER
Item no.: 1341406
On the Town
for: Piano/Vocal/Chords
Item no.: 1529571
for: Piano/Vocal/Chords
Item no.: 1364845
Eb
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Piano/Voice/Guitar
Item no.: 1479231
uit west-side story
for: PSATB
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1211468
C
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Piano/Voice/Guitar
Item no.: 1029547
F
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Piano/Voice/Guitar
Item no.: 1035774
Eb
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Piano/Voice/Guitar
Item no.: 1036574
Eb
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Piano/Voice/Guitar
Item no.: 1479372
Musical-Querschnitt für gemischten Chor und Begleitung
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 680905
Musical-Querschnitt für gemischten Chor und Begleitung
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 680903
Musical-Querschnitt für gemischten Chor und Begleitung
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 680904
Musical-Querschnitt für gemischten Chor und Begleitung
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Alto
Item no.: 680902
for Three Treble Voices and Piano
for: 3 Voices and Piano
Score
Item no.: 890739
Choral Highlights
for: Mixed Choir [SAB] and Piano
Choir score
Item no.: 892580
C
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Piano/Voice/Guitar
Item no.: 1563257
C
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Piano/Voice/Guitar
Item no.: 1612996
A Cycle of Five Kids Songs
for: Children's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 770307
Choral Highlights
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 904093
TV, Film, Musical und Show
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1211976
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1211546
Almighty Father
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 158556
from the Musical Production 1600 Pensylvania Avenue
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1211689
for: Mixed Choir and Piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1211568
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 148268
for: Tenor, Men's Choirand Piano, Optional Double Bass and Percussion
Choir score
Item no.: 893371
Gloria Tibi
for: Tenor, 2-Part Treble Voices [SS], Piano and Bongo
Choir score
Item no.: 146680
Life is happiness indeed
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 198632
for: Soloists, Mixed Choir [SATB] and Piano
Choir score
Item no.: 578004
Psalm 100 - Psalm 108, vs. 2
for: Soloist, Mixed Choir [SATB] and Orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 198648
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