Leonard Bernstein

excerpt: "Am here Bay of Naples, en route to Monte Carlo & Spain, I think of you, S & V, being Jewish your Arabic [maid?]. I hope all continues to be as joyful as before."

excerpt: " it was your 61st birthday five days ago congratulate you on that signal event "

From: Young People's Concerts Television Scripts Series

excerpt: "1915 years later--and it's yours!" From: Correspondence Series

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excerpt: "I have created quite a stir with the piano, and am even giving musicales." From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "Added to your pride in me: I am almost positive that I am to do my concerto with Sevitzky's Young musicians' orchestra. From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "Would you please advise me by immediate mail whether to play modern, alternate or classical program." From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "I am having a wonderful time here in Atlantic City." From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "I'm having a splendid time here at camp..." From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "I cannot tell you often enough how great a debt I owe to you for the fine foundation and musical (and extra-musical) inspiration you gave me..." From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "Alex North says your much too good for so menial a job as is open at Bennington." From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "...be sure to learn a lot about counterpoint first. No one can beat Piston at that...I saw M. Blitzstein...so why not write him directly and say you're the pianist I mentioned..." From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "Dear Dopey...Congratulations on your birthday"

excerpt: " my only happiness is just to believe and to feel myself enslaved in my work is a spiritual slavery I mean "

excerpt: "Dear Dopey...Congratulations on your birthday"

excerpt: " thank you so much for your always so kind thoughts to me "

excerpt: "I couldn't answer your first letter; you were asking me too much."

excerpt: "...I met at least one new and talented composer in London, Benjamin Britten...working at top speed on a new cowboy ballet for the Ballet Caravan outfit." From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: " real object in writing this letter is to tell how interested I am now in this new and exciting art called "swing music"

excerpt: "I'll try to reach Blitzstein before I call you to get the dope from him. But what makes you think he controls the fee?" From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "I wish you'd come down to Princeton on Friday the 27th. Walter P__ and I are having a program at 4...and Roy Harris is being performer that night." From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "I was playing football the other day, and I took a big tackle and I hurt my knee."

excerpt: "Yaddo is exactly as I left it eight years ago, which is a little frightening, but reassuring too."

excerpt: "Will you listen in to the broadcasts and tell me what's wrong with them?/Benjamin Britten arrives to-night!" From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "I'm tickled that they are taking such good care of you at Curtis." From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "...you arouse a long dead messianic complex in me. Do you mind being saved?...I see the beginning and end of the first movement but not the middle." From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "...I am very happy to here that you are working hard sorry to see that you neglect your piano "

excerpt: "I'm being swallowed up by the Great American Continent." From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "...what have you decided to do about the winter?" From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: " recording postponed "

excerpt: "Nothing could have made me happier than to know that your work this summer has really given you beauty and strength and a better understanding of the gifts with which nature has endowed you." From: Co More

excerpt: "Watch out for Mice & Men in Philadelphia. You're probably the only one alive who will hear the background music I wrote. 40 minutes of it." From: Correspondence Series

The David Diamond Collection

excerpt: "Please kindly call me this evening "

excerpt: "It would be rather fun to go along with you to the recording." From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "Let me add my small voice of sorrow to the multitude of messages that must be pouring in from around the world I met Lenny in the fall of 1940 when I started dating Irving Irving turned to me and said More

excerpt: "Use my name us[sic] you like "

excerpt: "I'm thrilled to hear you are conducting a Chorus, and even more excited at the prospect of your all-Negro orchestra. I have a great interest in and sympathy for the negro race." From: Correspondence Series

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excerpt: "Copland tells me that Kouss. is expecting one of his students to conduct Randall Thompson's Symphony no.2 the very first week, and that he has mentioned my name as the first possibility." From: Corres More

excerpt: "As you perceive, I am here, & indulging in all sorts of exciting performances & rehearsing." From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "Marc Blitzstein reports it was `easily the best thing on the program'." From: Correspondence Series

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excerpt: "If you want my advice, pay a great deal of attention to every remark made by Mr. Reiner. He is, as you know, a master technician and holds the best European traditions of musical art." From: Correspo More

excerpt: "...I am writing a Piano Sonata..." From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "I plan to see Koussie before I go and will talk to him about you." From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "You would like the Britten--you old romanticist you. But I agree. It's definitely got something--and the second movement orchestration is phenomenal...I tried to get you a job playing the piano part More

excerpt: "I've suggested you as assistant music critic for the newspaper PM if you hear from Henry Simon their critic..."

excerpt: "I am calling his merit to the attention of those states where we maintain symphony orchestras"

excerpt: " glad you are going to play the concerto of Chavez in Boston "

excerpt: " he is very anxious to be of service to his country, and suggests the U.S.O ."

excerpt: "Finished the Sonata! Played the world premiere in B.A. Slonimsky was there. Musicians said nice things." From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: " you seem to have discovered the difference between conceit and egotism. The latter is essential beginning of great success "

excerpt: "Jamie grows more beautiful every day...She is really remarkably advanced for two weeks old..." From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "Leonard Bernstein announces the opening of his studio for the teaching of piano and musical analysis..." From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: " see if something can be done "

excerpt: " busy erecting a monument to Dr. Wesselhoeft Next week I'm in Boston starting Tuesday "

excerpt: "The doctor who deferred me (in case Dr. K. is serious about writing him)..." From: Correspondence Series

The Mildred Spiegel Zucker Collection

excerpt: "Heinshimer says Koss is doing Quiet City this week...If true, please tell him that there is a terrible mistake in the printed score at No. 7..." From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "Last Saturday I lost one of my best friends -- Alfred Eisner." From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "May I recommend Leonard Bernstein"

excerpt: "I felt that you acted ahead of your present achievements when we met last summer count on me to tell you what I really think."

excerpt: "...in a rushed moment. Will write very soon" From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "In twenty years I have not met a young musician with more natural ability and real flair. His fort, as you know is conducting. I have heard Koussevitzky repeatedly say the most enthusiastic things o More

excerpt: " first New York performance was in 1942 by me "

excerpt: "We [Camargo Guanieri and I] are playing a Birthday Piece (on Cuban Themes) at Town Hall together on Dec. 9th. It's not written yet, but then..." From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "I can recommend Leonard Bernstein for a position as conductor"

excerpt: "I'm writing a ballet -- very frothy one -- for the Monte Carlo people." From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "I'm sure you'll really enjoy it [at Tanglewood]" From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "Considering one day vacation with you starting tomorrow..." From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "Hurrah for you!" From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "I'm beginning to lose contact with your every thought. I have a sense of you having had a great triumph out of the Bowles opus, followed by a kind of let-down which is natural enough "

excerpt: "Thursday night I was deferred for all time from the army...[the doctor] assured me, 'nothing can interfere with your career.'" From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "A thousand thanks for everything and best of luck" From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: " heard your recent successes and I feel very happy and proud about it "

excerpt: "Marvelous news just finishing my last ten thousand notes will be coming home end of this month..." From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "Enclosing is Dick Tracy which I will send you every Sunday"

excerpt: "It's all too wonderful!...I keep wondering what you will think of the score for North Star...I even had my first chance at a bang-up battle sequence....Of course I was jealous when I read Piston and T More

excerpt: "Don't you think it might be a wonderful idea to have Jenny Tourel to sing the Soprano Solo in my Symphony?" From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "Here's more: I'm really getting to like this idea--" From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "I did omit to get the Post (which criticized my wit, favorably, but made no mention of the performance)." From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "The blow has fallen, they are not letting me go back to NY for the concert I got myself into this jam so I might as well take it like a man I've suggested that you play the Sonata instead of me."

excerpt: "For the record" [with Town Hall program] From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "This publicity business is really getting fantastic. Every N.Y. paper had it on Thurs.,...I've just taken a fine apartment in Carnegie Hall." From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "Enclosing is Dick Tracy which I will send you every Sunday"

excerpt: "...hold option on apartment until I get back..." From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "We are leaving for Chicago July 1,..." From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "Everything fine and tired and gay" From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "Watch opening "

excerpt: "Your project receiving our careful consideration "

excerpt: "I think I solved the Our Town problem. It repeats the waltz as you like, and removes entirely the ""ties that bind"" section I'll never forget that face of yours in Reubens."

excerpt: "Cannot possibly come to performance Thursday 14th...but would gladly attend opening night Wednesday..." From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "Having wonderful time. We are wind & sunburned & almost there." From: Correspondence Series

excerpt: "It has been more than a joy for me to have you conduct your Symphony with my orchestra..." From: Correspondence Series