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), ...

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.

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

Would it be presumptuous to invite composer Leonard Bernstein to join the Brandeis faculty? Sachar decided to ask Bernstein himself. Accompanied by donor Adolph Ullman, he traveled to the Tanglewood ...

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.