“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.
10 Songs
for: Voice (tenor), piano
Music score
Item no.: 641507
From The West Side Story
for: 2 Bb Clarinets, Eb Alto Clarinet and Bass Clarinet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1531111
29 Selections
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 471091
10 songs from Leonard Bernstein's classic musical
Hal Leonard Instrumental Play-Along
for: Trombone
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 605713
for Cello solo
Instrumental Solos
for: Cello
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 683172
Something's Coming / Tonight
for: Treble Choir [SSA] and Piano [CD or Instruments]
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 166215
Sanctus
for: Mixed Choir or 7 Soloistssten [SSATTBB] a Cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 225210
Highlights from the american musical
Discovery Plus Band Series – A Series for Developing Bands
for: Youth concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 261401
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Book
Item no.: 348906
for: Viola, Keyboard
Instrumental Solo & Accompaniment
Item no.: 1638662
In three Movements
for: Boy's alto [countertenor], boy's choir [mixed choir], symphony orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 579005
from "West Side Story"
Discovery Band – A Series for Developing Bands
for: Youth concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 465966
Gloria Tibi
for: Tenor, 2-Part Treble Voices [SS], Piano and Bongo
Choir score
Item no.: 146680
Instrumental Solos
for: Trumpet, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 631659
Die beliebtesten Melodien des Musicals bearbeitet für Klavier
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 225174
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 680698
Warm Up
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 901199
Hawkes Pocket Scores HPS 1134
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 179103
Großes Potpourri aus dem Musical
for: Concert band
Conductors part (C), Parts
Item no.: 208534
aus West Side Story
for: Wind Band
Score
Item no.: 1211580
From The West Side Story
for: Soprano, 3 Alto, 2 Tenor and Bariton Saxophone
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1531109
Jazz Ensemble Library
for: Jazz ensemble
Score
Item no.: 1204474
Quarter Military Band
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 162198
Brass Band
for: Brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 595822
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 471568
for: Piano/Vocal/Chords
Item no.: 1364845
from West Side Story
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 895202
from Wonderful Town
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809746
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 862398
for: 5 brass winds; rhythm group (piano, guitar, drums) ad lib.
Score (C), Parts
Item no.: 597303
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 197468
A Cycle of Five Kid Songs
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 609875
Choral Suite Broadway Choral Series
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano [keyboard]
Choir score
Item no.: 664367
Prüfungsliteratur
for: Trombone
Music score
Item no.: 154347
From "West Side Story"
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 791888
for: school orchestra
Piano conductor, orchestral parts
Item no.: 580995
Boosey and Hawkes Quarter Military Band
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 465963
uit west-side story
for: PSATB
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1211468
Make our Garden grow
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1212194
from Candide
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 1212165
Epistle from Mass
for: Voice, Speakers and Piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 894453
with piano accompaniment for rehearsal only
for: Male choir (TTBB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 686029
Study for the ballet Facsimile
for: Soprano and Piano
Book
Item no.: 462501
from Mass
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 148265
Boosey and Hawkes Quarter Military Band
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 907321
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1211849
From "West Side Story"
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 791957
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1211574
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