Leonard Bernstein
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Leonard Bernstein was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was the first American-b
Bernstein in 1977
Leonard Bernstein and Benny Goodman in rehearsal, ca. 1940–1949
Photo of Bernstein by Carl Van Vechten (1944)
Carnegie Hall playbill, November 14, 1943 Radio announcement:
Felicia Montealegre
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Felicia Montealegre Bernstein was a Costa Rican and American actress.
Leonard Bernstein
…suburban post-war environment belies their inner turmoil. Ironically, Bernstein wrote most of the opera while on his honeymoon in Mexico with his wife, Felicia Montealegre-Cohn. Bernstein was a visiting music professor at Brandeis University from 1951 to 1956. In 1952, he created the Brandeis Festival of the Creative Arts…
Publicity photo, December 10, 1957
Montealegre visiting her friend Louis Jourdan during his Broadway production of Tonight in Samarkand (1955)
Montealegre arrested on the steps of the United States Capitol Building, 1972
Felicia and Leonard Bernstein leaving for Israel, 1957