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Beethoven, Symphony "Eroica", Selection of Reference Recordings Furtwangler/Erich Kleiber/Toscanini/Otto Klemperer/Karajan/Bernstein/Giulini/Manfred Honneck/Roy Goodman/Frans Bruggen Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, Toscanini & NBCso (1953) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_exluqKf2Jg&t=252s Beethoven - Symphony No 3 ‘Eroica’ - Furtwängler, VPO (1944) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD3q2cLf8D8&t=80s Beethoven…

Serge Koussevitzky http://www.classical.net/music/guide/society/krs/koussbio.php In 1940, Koussevitzky established the Berkshire (now Tanglewood) Music Center as a school to train the most promising young composers, conductors, and instrumentalists. He himself taught the conducting classes there, and…

Leonard Bernstein Family

Igor Stravinsky and Aaron Copland 1950 photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt Copland/Barber Copland/Bernstein Copland /Villalobos

Aaron Copland/Leonard Bernstein/Mehta/Koussevitzky

Leonard Bernstein having a laugh with Pierre Boulez

Koussevitzky at Tanglewood with Leonard Bernstein

Composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein kisses his former piano teacher Helen Grace Coates Composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein kisses his former piano teacher Helen Grace Coates after the Founder’s Day Convocation honoring Coates and Bernstein at Pine Manor…

Bernstein, Britten, Copland, Koussevitzky, and Corsini at Tanglewood 1947 Bernstein and Koussevitzky Have Their Cake (and eat it too...) From the New York Philharmonic Leon Levy Digital Archives comes this gem of a photo,…

Pensive Bernstein with Koussevitzky

Understanding Serge Koussevitzky and Leonard Bernstein: A Primer https://bernstein.classical.org/features/understanding-serge-koussevitzky-and-leonard-bernstein/ Bernstein on Koussevitzky: Passing the Tanglewood Baton (Audio exclusive) https://bernstein.classical.org/features/koussevitzky-exclusive-2/

Leonard Bernstein is kissed by his parents after his first concert as conductor of the N.Y. Philharmonic Orchestra

Bernstein/Ozawa

Leonard Bernstein Family