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.

In the late 1970s, Tanglewood and the BSO sponsored rock concerts at various ... It is here, on the second floor that a ghost, that reportedly spooked BSO conductor Leonard Bernstein, is supposed to ...

The thunderous sounds we hear in a concert hall — summoned with the subtlest flick of a conductor’s wrist — are the result of ...

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.