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Leonard Bernstein (/ ˈ b ɜːr n s t aɪ n / BURN-styne; [1] born Louis Bernstein; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was the first American-born conductor to receive international ...
Montealegre met composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein in 1946 at a party given by Claudio Arrau. [10] After their first engagement to be married was broken off, she had a relationship with actor Richard Hart until his death on January 2, 1951. [51] [52] She and Bernstein married on September 9, 1951, and had three children: Jamie, Alexander, and ...
Felicia died of cancer on June 16,1978, according to the Leonard Bernstein Office. She passed away at the couple's home in East Hampton, Long Island, The New York Times reported. Felicia was just ...
Before they officially met, however, Felicia spotted Leonard conducting at the New York City Center, and was immediately smitten, according to the biography Leonard Bernstein by Humphrey Burton ...
New York Philharmonic Principal Cellist Lorne Munroe and Leonard Bernstein at a Young People's Concert. December 6, 1968. Bernstein's first concert as music director and Conductor, on January 18, 1958, at Carnegie Hall in New York, was the first of these programs to be televised, "What Does Music Mean?" In 1962, the Young People's Concerts ...
Adolph Green, with his arm around Bernstein. He’s joined by Phyllis Newman, Betty Comden, and in the foreground, Lillian Hellman, at Bernstein’s 60th birthday tribute, 1978. WWD - Getty Images
Which is to say Apartment 23 at the Dakota is vital to the story of Bernstein and Montealegre's complicated relationship that lies at the heart of Maestro, the Bradley Cooper-directed biopic ...
Bernstein was born in Newark, New Jersey and grew up there; he graduated from Weequahic High School in Newark in 1945. [3] [4] He began teaching piano at the age of fifteen, when his teacher at the time, Clara Husserl, a pupil of Theodor Leschetizky, arranged for him to supervise the practicing of some of her gifted younger pupils.