Wishing you and yours a merry, happy, 🎵 music-blessed new year!

Feeling 😌 Joyful and peaceful... Today, on the 9th day of Christmas, we're listening to one of the best-ever Christmas concertos, by none other than Corelli. #12daysofchristmas #classicalmusic 🔉 Listen: bit.ly/2TpAcxr

"Wishing everyone a very happy new year, With joy And dignity And a little music..." -- Yo-Yo Ma! #HappyNewYear

Which is THE classic Christmas music masterpiece of all time? #12daysofChristmas #HappyNewYear Britten's Ceremony of Carols? Corelli's Christmas Concerto? Handel's Messiah? Up vote 💓 YOUR favorite (or favorites!) 💓 here: bit.ly/12christmas_vo… Voting ends Jan. 6, 2019.

On the 10th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... a carol that combines over 200 years of musical and literary history! #12daysofChristmas Hear musicians from From the Top & King's College Choir perform this beautiful (now) classic #fromthetop: bit.ly/2FaioCJ

#FridayFeeling 😌🎵😊

It's #NationalTriviaDay, classical fans! Test your skills on Bach's Christmas Oratorio: bit.ly/2F7cS3s

Okay, 🥰#classicalmusic fans, the 🎄#12DaysofChristmas are nearly over... 🥁 Is YOUR favorite no. 1 on our list? 🎻 Listen and vote on all 12: ✅ bit.ly/12christmas_vo…

This week we're featuring photos of Leonard Bernstein by Ruth Orkin! Here he is in the 1940s: a young man and budding musician at Tanglewood. 📷 Copyright: Orkin Photo Archive. Used by permission, courtesy of Mary Engel. All rights reserved. See more: bit.ly/orkin-lenny

This week in Jan. 1955(!), contralto Marian Anderson became the *1st* person of color to perform at Metropolitan Opera. Here she is performing with Leonard Bernstein and New York Philharmonic in NYC in 1947. 📸 © Ruth Orkin Photo Archive. More Lenny moments: bit.ly/orkin-lenny #Bernsteinat100

Free concert tickets for furloughed federal employees: Boston Symphony Metropolitan Opera Seattle Symphony BuffaloPhilharmonicOrchestra Akron Symphony Spokane Symphony Orlando Philharmonic Des Moines Symphony Fresno Philharmonic @wcoconcerts Erie Philharmonic Dallas Symphony and probably a lot more! Check with your local orchestra!

“I know of only two ways to pray: one is to say #thankyou and sing a song. The other is to pray that... our capacity to love... may never be extinguished as long as we inhabit this wonderful earth with one another." ~Leonard Bernstein January, 1985, "Hope in the Nuclear Age"

The original cast recording of Bernstein's MASS was one of 25 albums to be inducted into the GRAMMYS / GRAMMY Hall of Fame, which includes 1,088 recordings, which are commemorated at the GRAMMY Museum in downtown Los Angeles. #Bernsteinat100 bit.ly/2TcKXn1

And the powerful legacy of introducing--creating--music--something new, something beautiful, *for* the greater good -- continues by New York Philharmonic through their Young People's Concerts and #project19! Revisit the classical and new with Leonard Bernstein: bernstein.classical.org/features/berns…

"...every once in a while we have feelings so deep and so special that we have no words for them and that's where music is so marvelous; because music names them for us, only in notes instead of in words." ~ Leonard Bernstein, 1958 Hear more: bit.ly/b100_ypc1

"The dullest of dullards among us has the gift of dreams at night — visions and yearnings and hopes." bernstein.classical.org/features/inspi… 10 quotes to inspire you, me, and any one who dares to hope and dream -- from the maestro, Leonard Bernstein