Opening with an inexorable funeral march and culminating in an ecstatic hymn of resurrection, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 contemplates life and death on a cosmic scale. Leonard Bernstein leads the London Symphony Orchestra and Edinburgh Festival Chorus in this historic performance on Carnegie Hall : carnegiehallplus.com | Carnegie Hall

🎼 For all the Leonard Bernstein fans out there, we've got the perfect documentary for you. Watch this brilliant autobiographical essay on the American composer and conductor, seen here talking about his love for the piano! 🎼 https://cutt.ly/xVeFAbc | medici.tv

Memories of an audition: Did you know Leonard Bernstein's Curtis Institute of Music audition (with Fritz Reiner!), was helped by remembering grade school songs? In this video, Leonard Bernstein shares his story with students of the LA Phil Institute. The young conductor is Mark Janas. We invite you to share an audition experience. [Video courtesy of PBS, "Great Performances" (c)1982] | Leonard Bernstein

On 9/9, we share with you Leonard Bernstein’s examination of the superstition surrounding “Ninth” symphonies. What's your favorite Ninth? In an introductory trailer to his Dmitri Shostakovich 9th Symphony performance with the Vienna Philharmonic / Wiener Philharmoniker, distributed by Deutsche Grammophon, Bernstein explains how Shostakovich “thumbed his nose” at the tradition of Ninth symphonies of the great composers. "The mystique of the number nine exerted itself in an odd way, so typical of