Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, October 18, 1938
excerpt: " thank you so much for your always so kind thoughts to me "
Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, March 27, 1938
excerpt: " real object in writing this letter is to tell how interested I am now in this new and exciting art called "swing music"
Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, November 8, 1938
excerpt: " my only happiness is just to believe and to feel myself enslaved in my work is a spiritual slavery I mean "
Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, May 4, 1938
excerpt: "I couldn't answer your first letter; you were asking me too much."
Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, February 18, 1939
excerpt: "...I am very happy to here that you are working hard sorry to see that you neglect your piano "
Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, March 9, 1940
excerpt: "Use my name us[sic] you like "
Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, January 9, 1940
excerpt: "Please kindly call me this evening "
Bernstein conducts Stravinsky's L'histoire du Soldat at an informal Ta...
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Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, November 25, 1941
excerpt: " glad you are going to play the concerto of Chavez in Boston "
Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, November 1, 1945
excerpt: " first New York performance was in 1942 by me "
Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, December 27, 1943
excerpt: " heard your recent successes and I feel very happy and proud about it "
Bruno Walter to Leonard Bernstein, November 9, 1944
excerpt: "How kind of you! Please accept my warmest thanks for your dear words and the beautiful flowers."
Leonard Bernstein, young conductor & musical director of New York City...
Leonard Bernstein, partially seated on stool, facing slightly right. NYWT&S staff photograph. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Bruno Walter to Leonard Bernstein, December 28, 1945
excerpt: "Thanks and best wishes to you, dear Leonard Bernstein, for a happy new year"
Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, September 4, 1945
excerpt: " I think it would be a marvelous idea if you could take David as a second violin "
Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, August 1, 1946
excerpt: " my principal viola in Minneapolis Mr. Vincent Mauricci he is an excellent player
Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, January 15, 1947
excerpt: " problem of David can't believe that he is the only man in the United States who is unable to find a way of living "
Bruno Walter to Leonard Bernstein, February 2, 1948
excerpt: "Thousand thanks for your very dear words. It is a real joy for me that I could strike such a sympathetic chord in your heart with the performance of Mahler's work."
Bernstein with conductor James Levine in Bernstein's apartment at the ...
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Leonard Bernstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Yehudi Menuhin, Henry Morgenthau...
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Leonard Bernstein after conducting the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood, ...
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Bernstein with conductor Artur Rodzinski, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, ...
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Bruno Walter to Leonard Bernstein, December 23, 1944
excerpt: "Many thanks for your kind greetings and all good wishes for your happiness in the new year"
Bernstein with protégé, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, at 1974 Charl...
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Leonard Bernstein, performance of Ravel Concerto with Boston Symphony,...
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Bernstein with conductor Serge Koussevitzky after performance of The A...
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Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, n.d
excerpt: "...I am invited to conduct the Boston orchestra on the middle of next January "
Bruno Walter to Leonard Bernstein, March 14, 1950
excerpt: "I am gladly willing to give my name to the Music Advisory Committee of the American Fund for Israel Institutions, but, please, understand that I shall not be able to take any active part "
Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, November 28, 1958
excerpt: " pleased and happy I was with last night's performance everything was perfect "
Leonard Bernstein and David Oppenheim, ready to leave after recording ...
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Leonard Bernstein performing with the Israel Philharmonic in biblical ...
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Leonard Bernstein conducting the Palestine Philharmonic, with matte si...
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Leonard Bernstein with Russian pianist Emil Gilels, preparing for a pe...
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Leonard Bernstein, after conducting Mahler's 2nd Symphony with Jennie ...
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Leonard Bernstein at rehearsal with orchestra at La Scala, November 19...
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Bernstein with conductor Serge Koussevitzky after performance of The A...
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Leonard and Shirley Bernstein in the green room of Carnegie Hall, afte...
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Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, March 3, 1951
excerpt: " wirting[sic] me a letter answering to my apparently peculiar silence during the time you were in New York..."
Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, April 17, 1940
excerpt: "Don't leave your class for next season some real difficulties here "
A girl watches from the aisle while Bernstein conducts the New York Ph...
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Leonard Bernstein conducts the New York Philharmonic, with Jennie Tour...
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Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, July 12, 1960
excerpt: " your so generous and wonderful visit to me at the hospital your wonderful and justified development in the artistic musical world "
Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, n.d
excerpt: " my thoughts will be with you tonight "
Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, October 12, 1938(?)
excerpt: "Nothing could be more plesant[sic] to me than to hear from you "
Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, April 12, 1938
excerpt: "I have arranged to pay your transportation "
Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, October 17, 1939
excerpt: "...I feel happy that everything seems to be welcoming you in this school in spite of the pessimistic warnings..."
Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, December 22, 1939
excerpt: " I have a week vacation between 7 and 14 January. I must go to New York and am planning to come to Philadelphia...
Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, September 4, 1940
excerpt: " I feel very happy that Dr. Koussevitzky is so interested in you hope that he will continue to help you "
Leonard Bernstein conducts L'histoire du Soldat on Koussevitzky's birt...
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Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, April 20, 1940
excerpt: " troubles with our union because I had to fire some of my musicians "
Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, January 20, 1940
excerpt: " must answer you in your question about your Union membership "
Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, April 29, 1942
excerpt: " no time now to think about making a career in any field except to be a soldier better a sailor "
Tanglewood rehearsal, Leonard Bernstein collection
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Leonard Bernstein with Aaron Copland at a New York Philharmonic concer...
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Leonard Bernstein conducts the New York Philharmonic in Venezuela duri...
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Leonard Bernstein conducting one of the Young People's Concerts, 1959
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Leonard Bernstein and Isaac Stern, recording session for Serenade, 195...
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Leonard Bernstein conducting with Isaac Stern as soloist, 1956
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Leonard Bernstein leading the New York philharmonic in a Ford Presents...
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Leonard Bernstein conducting concert in Ein Harod, 1950
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Leonard Bernstein conducting the Israel Philharmonic, Tel Aviv, May 19...
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Leonard Bernstein and Isaac Stern after a performance of Mozart, Octob...
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Conducting the New York Philharmonic in Miami, February 1963
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Conducting, Tel Aviv, August 25, 1968
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Rehearsal for UN Concert, Oct. 24, 1965
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UN, Oct. 24, 1965, Leonard Bernstein collection
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Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic, with Jack Benn...
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Leonard Bernstein and Glenn Gould at the piano during a New York Philh...
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Leonard Bernstein conducting, Leonard Bernstein collection
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Leonard Bernstein with Friends at Tanglewood, 1939?
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Last concert in tour with Palestine Philharmonic - at Ein Harod settle...
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Felicia and Leonard Bernstein greeted by the president of the Belgrade...
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Leonard Bernstein leading a rehearsal at Tanglewood, 1961
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Rehearsal at UN, Oct. 24, 1965, Leonard Bernstein collection
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Leonard Bernstein conducting the last act of Rigoletto at the annual c...
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Leonard Bernstein leads the New York Philharmonic during the productio...
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Leonard Bernstein conducting in Moscow, August 23, 1959
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Leonard Bernstein with Nadia Boulanger at the New York Philharmonic tr...
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Leonard Bernstein receives the Columbia University Alice M. Diston awa...
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Bruno Walter and Lotte Walter to Leonard Bernstein, April 25, 1945
excerpt: "Please accept our heartfelt thanks for your sympathy and kindness"
Leonard Bernstein Rehearsing the New York Philharmonic in Lewisohn Sta...
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Leonard Bernstein and Jennie Tourel, recording session, New York
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Leonard Bernstein conducting the Palestine Philharmonic in a performan...
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Leonard Bernstein conducts the New York Philharmonic in a Young People...
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Leonard Bernstein conducts the New York Philharmonic, with Felicia Ber...
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Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, February 5, 1938
excerpt: " your letter touched me very deeply. I never forget you."
Leonard Bernstein listening to playback from Columbia Records recordin...
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Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, 1958
excerpt: Envelope, "hand delivered".
A young girl narrates Peter and the Wolf during a Young People's Conce...
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Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, May 8, 1941
excerpt: " feel so miserable not to be enough strong to help you in a substantial way believe in your value and capacities "
Leonard Bernstein addresses a Young People's Concert audience in Carne...
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The Bernstein family outside the stage door to Carnegie Hall after a F...
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Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, December 10, 1939
excerpt: " so happy that you took the decision to be again a student and this time exclusively for music or conducting.
Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, April 12, 1938
excerpt: "I have arranged to pay your transportation "
Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, October 12, 1938(?)
excerpt: "Nothing could be more plesant[sic] to me than to hear from you "
Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, December 22, 1939
excerpt: " I have a week vacation between 7 and 14 January. I must go to New York and am planning to come to Philadelphia...
Dimitri Mitropoulos to Leonard Bernstein, October 17, 1939
excerpt: "...I feel happy that everything seems to be welcoming you in this school in spite of the pessimistic warnings..."