Leonard Bernstein was born in Lawrence ... In 1940, he studied at the Boston Symphony Orchestra's newly created summer institute, Tanglewood, with the orchestra's conductor, Serge Koussevitzky.

I first met Leonard Bernstein at the Tanglewood Conducting Seminar in the mid-'80s. Though luminaries would visit to teach the class (Seiji Ozawa and Andre Previn and Gunther Schuller, among others), ...

This weekend, the Boston Symphony Orchestra performed Tchaikovsky’s “Violin Concerto,” Tilson Thomas’s “Whitman Songs,” and ...

Leonard Bernstein (1918-90) was one of the great artists of the ... Beginning in 1951, Bernstein headed the orchestral and conducting departments at Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts. He conducted ...

Bernstein became Koussevitzky’s protégé, his assistant at Tanglewood, before being made assistant to ... ‘Be careful,’ his father warned. ‘Leonard Bernstein is gay.’ The young man looked up in wonder.