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Subject: Leonard Bernstein collection
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Please accept our apologies for any duplicate postings.
The composer, conductor, writer, and teacher Leonard Bernstein
(1918-1990) was one of 20th-century America's most important
musical figures. Bernstein came to national prominence virtually
overnight through a last-minute conducting debut with the New
York Philharmonic, when he substituted for Bruno Walter on
November 14, 1943. He was twenty-five. Because Bernstein was
a national figure from the very beginning of his career, his friend
and teacher Helen Coates, who became his secretary in 1944,
maintained his papers meticulously and extensively annotated
many of them.
The Library’s Bernstein Collection, acquired over a forty-four
year time span, offers a remarkably complete record of his life
and is one of the Music Division's richest repositories in the
variety and scope of its materials. Its more than 400,000 items,
including music and literary manuscripts, correspondence,
photographs, audio and video recordings, fan mail, and other
types of materials extensively document Bernstein's extraordinary
life and career.
The online Leonard Bernstein Collection makes available a
selection of 85 photographs, 177 scripts from the Young People's
Concerts, 74 scripts from the Thursday Evening Previews, and
over 1,100 pieces of correspondence, in addition to the collection's
complete Finding Aid. Three categories have been included from the
Personal Correspondence: correspondence between Bernstein and
his family; between Bernstein and Helen Coates, his teacher, friend,
and assistant for most of his professional life; and between Bernstein
and his two most significant mentors, Aaron Copland and Serge
Koussevitzky.
Two Special Presentations highlight the online collection: one
is the Photo Gallery, containing all the online photographs
arranged chronologically; and “Professor Lenny” by Joseph
Horowitz, an in-depth article on Bernstein as music educator
originally published in The New York Review of Books.
The Leonard Bernstein collection can be found at the following url:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lbhtml/
Please direct any questions to ndlpcoll@loc.gov
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Elizabeth L. Brown
Automated Reference Services Librarian
National Digital Library Program, LIBN/NDL/LC(1330)
Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540-1330
ebro@loc.gov telephone: 202/707-2235
Library of Congress American Memory Home Page:
http://memory.loc.gov/
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