Happy Birthday, Leonard Bernstein

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/25/13 at 11:07am

Candide Overture: Leonard Bernstein conducting

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 8/25/13 at 11:11am

Happy Birthday Mr. Bernstein and thank you! My life has been enriched by your beautiful compositions.

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 8/25/13 at 11:48am

Happy Birthday sir!

Looks like I know which Spotify playlist I'll be listening to today. I think I will start with Chichester Psalms.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/25/13 at 6:39pm

I just listened to that last week!

Big revelation today: "Prelude, Fugue and Riffs," a 1947 jazz piece for solo clarinet and jazz ensemble. He wrote it for Woody Herman's big band but performed it on television in 1955 with Benny Goodman.

I never really heard it before or paid much attention to it. It's a minor piece but so much fun.

This is a television performance of it, not the one with Benny Goodman, but a good one.

http://youtu.be/5xD5GpE76io

[Fan123]

Posted: 8/26/13 at 5:16am

Love his work!
And Clive Owen should play him in a biopic.