Today we celebrate Argentinian composer Alberto Ginastera, born on this day in 1916.

In 1963, Leonard Bernstein conducted the New York Philharmonic in the world premiere of Ginastera's Violin Concerto.

[📸 Leonard Bernstein and Alberto Ginastera, May 28, 1958, NYPhilDigitalArchive.]

On this day (April 10) in 1935, Vaughan Williams's Symphony No. 4 was premiered in London by the BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus conducted by Adrien Boult.

Enjoy this 1968 recording of Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic in the Scherzo of Vaughan William's Symphony No. 4.
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On April 9, 1962, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences held the 34th Oscars ceremony at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, hosted by Bob Hope.

'West Side Story' won 10 Oscars, including Best Picture.

#OTD Leonard Bernstein, 1992

Have you checked out our video tribute to Leonard Bernstein?

Watch it here: rb.gy/a7ja1e

75 Years Ago!
Leonard Bernstein's Symphony No. 2: The Age of Anxiety was premiered on April 8, 1949, by the Boston Symphony with the composer at the piano and conducted by Serge Koussevitzky, whose foundation commissioned the work.
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#OTD 150 years ago (Apr 5, 1874), Johann Strauss II's operetta 'Die Fledermaus' premiered at Vienna's Theater an der Wien, with the composer on the podium.

Enjoy this 1976 Sony Classical recording of Leonard Bernstein conducting the NYP in the overture!
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Speaking of 'On the Waterfront,' it's also National Film Score Day! 🎬🎼

What is your favorite film score?

Leonard Bernstein's only original score for film received wide popular and critical acclaim, and although nominated, did not win the Oscar.
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Today we celebrate the centennial of American film icon, director, and activist Marlon Brando Estate, who was born on this day in 1924.

Brando won his first The Academy Award in 1954 for his performance as Terry Malloy in 'On the Waterfront' (music by Leonard Bernstein).

Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 in C Major premiered on April 2, 1800, in Vienna.

We share with you this video excerpt of Leonard Bernstein discussing the third movement of the symphony and Beethoven's departure from traditional symphonic form.
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#OTD in 1946, Leonard Bernstein led the New York City Symphony in the world premiere of Marc Blitzstein's 'The Airborne Symphony.' The symphony is officially dedicated to the US Eighth Air Force, in which Blitzstein served.

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Today (April 1), we celebrate the legend of Till Eulenspiegel, a medieval German trickster, whose exploits were orchestrated by Richard Strauss in his tone-poem 'Till Eulespiegels lustige Streiche' (Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks).

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'Sharing is the whole meaning of my life… I freely confess, for whatever it is worth, that nothing in this life of ours exists for me at all until, or unless, I can share it with others, whether it be with one single person or five, or five million.”
-Leonard Bernstein, 1981

Happy National Pencil Day! ✏️
Leonard Bernstein referred to his composing pencil stubs as his 'little soldiers'.
[📸 A box of Leonard Bernstein's 'little soldiers'.]

Happy #WorldPianoDay !
'I just put my hands on the keyboard, and I was hooked... for life. You know what it's like to fall in love: you touch someone and that's it.'
--Leonard Bernstein, 1990
[📷 by Don Hunstein, courtesy of @SonyClassical]

Happy #WorldTheatreDay !!
What are your most memorable theater experiences?
[📷 Leonard Bernstein outside the National Theatre in Washington, DC. Robert H. Phillips, photographer. Courtesy of The Library of Congress Music Division.]

Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic's final Young People's Concert was broadcast on this day in 1972.

The concert explored Gustav Holst's 'The Planets'.

We share with you this excerpt of the Young People's Concert, where Bernstein introduces the work.

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Happy birthday to Hungarian composer and pianist Béla Bartók (1881-1945)!

Leonard Bernstein and Isaac Stern recorded Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 2 with the New York Philharmonic in 1958.
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#OTD in 1958, NBC broadcast Leonard Bernstein's last appearance on the series Omnibus, in an episode titled 'What Makes Opera Grand?'
Enjoy this excerpt!
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Happy #TeachMusicWeek ! 👩‍🏫🎼🧑‍🏫🎶

'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)

Happy World Poetry Day! 🖋

Did you know that Leonard Bernstein, an avid lover of language, wrote poetry?

We invite you to listen to actor Jeremy Irons read “Life is Juicy,” written by Leonard Bernstein in 1947.

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