Leonard Bernstein

Saturday, March 15th, 2025 at 8:00pm, Ray Chen plays Tchaikovsky’s beloved Violin Concerto, and the BSO performs Bernstein’s love letter to New York: the Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story."

What would the Olympics be without the best of the best athletes... and classical composers?

Now available on demand, Conrad Tao is the soloist in Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2, "The Age of Anxiety", and Dima Slobodeniouk leads the BSO in the Symphony No. 3 by Brahms.

One of Leonard Bernstein’s most deeply personal works continues to be as relevant today as it ever was, even being quoted in a recent speech by the US Secretary of State.

Following its world premiere in 2021, a nearly forgotten work by Leonard Bernstein has now been released on a commercial recording, along with an additional movement of the piece discovered in 2022 and rarely heard music by Bernstein’s mentor, Aaron Copland.

Kicking off the 2022 Tanglewood season, pianist Yuja Wang joins the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1, and Andris Nelsons conducts Stravinsky’s timeless “The Rite of Spring."

WCRB In Concert features a Leonard Bernstein world premiere at Tanglewood and seaside chamber music from Cape Cod.

Everyone knows what a “march” is, right? Until we have to give a definition.

“Music for String Quartet” was never published, never performed, and was nearly lost to time — until now. John Perkel, the former orchestra librarian for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, joined Arun Rath on All Things Considered to discuss the discovery.

Sunday, June 7, 20207:00 PMIn an encore broadcast from 2018, Keith Lockhart leads the Pops and an All-Star Broadway cast in Bernstein's breakthrough…