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A 3 page research paper that discusses the career of Leonard Bernstein, who was one of America’s most renowned composer/conductors. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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family acquired an upright piano and young Bernstein began lessons, first with a neighbor and then with a "faculty member of the New England musicals" ("Leonard Bernstein"). He studied
music at Harvard and then went on to study at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia and over the objections of his father to pursing a musical career went to
work for a music publisher in 1942 ("Leonard Bernstein"). In 1943, he was made assistant conductor for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and he conducted for the first time
on November 14, 1943 when Bruno Walter, the guest conductor who was scheduled to appear, was taken ill ("Leonard Bernstein"). After this initial appearance, Bernstein was in great demand as
a conductor and he took over the post of music director for the New York City Symphony Orchestra after that post was vacated by Leopold Stokowski ("Leonard Bernstein"). The pinnacle
of this career as a conductor is arguably when, with a worldwide audience, Bernstein, at the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, conducted Beethovens Ninth Symphony, which substituted "Freheit
(freedom) for Freude (joy) in the magnificent choral finale" ("Leonard Bernstein"). Bernstein is also famous as a composer, especially in regards to his most famous work, the Broadway musical
West Side Story, which is also a well-known film. Bernstein believed whole heartedly in the "universal language of music and in musical excellence," regardless of whether one is considering "jazz
and popular song" or the realm of art music ("Leonard Bernstein"). In an interview with Bernstein, he commented that he did not want to spend his life, "as Arturo Toscanni
(a fellow famous conductor) did, studying and restudying the same fifty pieces of music" ("Leonard Bernstein"). Rather than devote his life to the realm of classical music, Bernstein early on
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