user avatar
Leonard Bernstein
@LennyBernstein
World-renowned musician 🎹, composer ✍🏼, conductor 🎫, educator 🎼, and humanitarian 🕊🌎 | (August 25, 1918 - October 14, 1990)
New York, NY
leonardbernstein.com
Joined March 2009
1,037
Following
12.1K
Followers
Posts
  • user avatar
    Leonard Bernstein
    @LennyBernstein
    Aug 16, 2023
    (1/6) From Jamie, Alexander, and Nina Bernstein: Bradley Cooper included the three of us along every step of his amazing journey as he made his film about our father.
    Bradley Cooper included the three of us along every step of his amazing journey as he made his film about our father. We were touched to the core to witness the depth of his commitment, his loving embrace of our father's music, and the sheer open-hearted joy he brought to his exploration. It breaks our hearts to see any misrepresentations or misunderstandings of his efforts. It happens to be true that Leonard Bernstein had a nice, big nose. Bradley chose to use makeup to amplify his resemblance, and we're perfectly fine with that. We're also certain that our dad would have been fine with it as well. Any strident complaints around this issue strike us above all as disingenuous attempts to bring a successful person down a notch -- a practice we observed all too often perpetrated on our own father. At all times during the making of this film, we could feel the profound respect and yes, the love that Bradley brought to his portrait of Leonard Bernstein and his wife, our mother Felicia.
    405K
  • user avatar
    Leonard Bernstein
    @LennyBernstein
    Jul 29, 2023
    In honor of Shark Week, here are some of the coolest Sharks around. 📷 #SharkWeek
    64K
  • user avatar
    Leonard Bernstein
    @LennyBernstein
    Sep 26, 2021
    On this date in 1957, West Side Story premiered at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City! As we wish the musical a happy 63rd anniversary, please take a moment and tell us about the first time you saw West Side Story. . . .
  • user avatar
    Leonard Bernstein
    @LennyBernstein
    Mar 22, 2023
    Happy #MusicInOurSchoolsMonth AND #TeachMusicWeek! “Children must receive musical instruction as naturally as food, and with as much pleasure as they derive from a baseball game. And this must happen from the beginning of their school lives.” Leonard Bernstein, 1977
    44K
  • user avatar
    Leonard Bernstein
    @LennyBernstein
    Aug 25, 2018
    Happy 100th birthday, Lenny! And a special thank you to all the people around the world who have helped make this celebration so special! #BernsteinAt100
  • user avatar
    Leonard Bernstein
    @LennyBernstein
    Aug 15, 2023
    This is MAESTRO. Discover the towering and fearless love story of the lifelong relationship between cultural icon Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein. Coming to select theaters November 22 and on Netflix December 20. @MaestroFilm_
    00:00
    86K
  • user avatar
    Leonard Bernstein
    @LennyBernstein
    Oct 14, 2023
    33 years ago, we said goodbye to the Maestro.
    20K
  • user avatar
    Leonard Bernstein
    @LennyBernstein
    Mar 31, 2021
    Happy Birthday to Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)! We share with you a video excerpt of Leonard Bernstein conducting the @Vienna_Phil (with only his facial expressions) in a performance of the finale of Haydn's Symphony No. 88.
    00:00
  • user avatar
    Leonard Bernstein
    @LennyBernstein
    Oct 5, 2022
    Happy World Teachers' Day! 🗨 “Teaching is probably the noblest profession in the world - the most unselfish, difficult, and honorable profession, but it is also the most unappreciated, underrated, underpaid, and under-praised profession in the world.” - Leonard Bernstein, 1963
  • user avatar
    Leonard Bernstein
    @LennyBernstein
    Jun 3, 2022
    "Music makes life more enjoyable, more exalted—more bearable." -Leonard Bernstein, 1961 Please share if you agree.
  • user avatar
    Leonard Bernstein
    @LennyBernstein
    Mar 2, 2023
    Happy Read Across America Day! "Teach people to read music. It’s not so difficult, and it’s perfectly possible to include the reading of music in the basic materials of education." -Leonard Bernstein Music Should Be Listened To, Not Heard (1959)
    32K
  • user avatar
    Leonard Bernstein
    @LennyBernstein
    Jul 6, 2023
    "I operate on principles of love. I can’t tell you what it is to be in absolute unison with more than 100 people in such fine detail that you’re not only pulsing together but breathing together!" -Leonard Bernstein, 1969
    [📸Leonard Bernstein conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a special filmed performance of Brahms' Symphony No. 2 in the Koussevitsky Music Shed at the Tanglewood Music Center, July 25, 1972. Photo by Heinz Weissenstein (Whitestone Photo), courtesy of the BSO Archives.]
    22K
  • user avatar
    Leonard Bernstein
    @LennyBernstein
    Aug 25, 2023
    Happy 105th Birthday, Maestro! 📷Leonard Bernstein celebrates his 56th birthday at Seppeltsfield Vineyard, in Adelaide, Australia, while on tour with the @nyphil, 1974. Courtesy of the @NYPhilArchive.
    19K
  • user avatar
    Leonard Bernstein
    @LennyBernstein
    Sep 1, 2023
    Today, we wish a heartfelt happy birthday to our friend Maestro Seiji Ozawa! Following his early studies with Charles Munch and Herbert von Karajan, Maestro Ozawa was appointed Assistant Conductor of the @nyphilharmonic for the by Music Director Leonard Bernstein.
    14K