Leonard Bernstein “would have turned 100 on Aug. 25, 2018—a shareable landmark that is not about to go unnoticed,” writes Stephen Silverman in Tuesday’s (8/22) Chicago Tribune. “After an official Sept. 21, 2017, kickoff at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts … from Alabama to Wisconsin, ‘festive performances and events’ are being scheduled through 2019, according to … the Leonard Bernstein Office…. In the Chicago area [the Ravinia festival will program a] two-season tribute.… The New York Philharmonic [Bernstein] festival … runs this Oct. 25 to Nov. 14…. On Oct. 4 [at] Carnegie Hall … conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra [perform] Bernstein’s Symphonic Suite from the film ‘On the Waterfront’ and Symphonic Dances from ‘West Side Story.’ … San Francisco Symphony music director Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Sept. 22-24 performances of Bernstein’s jazz ensemble showpiece ‘Prelude, Fugue and Riffs,’ the liturgical work ‘Chichester Psalms’ and the humorous show cycle ‘Arias and Barcarolles.’ … The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra … is peppering its entire season with Bernstein…. London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Rome, Budapest, Hungary, and Warsaw, Poland, as well as Japan, China, India, Brazil, Australia, South Africa and Israel, are also about to become hotbeds of ‘LB 100’ fever. ”
Posted August 23, 2017
Pictured: Leonard Bernstein conducts the New York Philharmonic in Central Park on August 4, 1986. Photo by Steve J. Sherman
