Orchestral, Ballet, Film, Vocal,
Link to Dybbuk page - the 1974 ballet in collaboration with Jerome Robbins
Link to The Age of Anxiety page - Bernstein's 2nd and best symphony
Jeremiah, Symphony No. 1 1942
Duration 24 mins
First performance January 28th 1944
Composer conducting
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Jennie Tourel, mezzo soprano soloist
Fancy Free, Ballet suite 1944
Duration 24 mins
First performance January 14th 1945
Composer conducting
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
On The Town, Three Dance Episodes
1945
Duration 9 mins
First performance February 13th 1946
Composer conducting
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Facsimile, Choreographic Essay 1946
Duration 19 mins
First performance March 5th 1947
Composer conducting
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
The Age of Anxiety
1949
Duration 37 mins
First performance April 8th 1949
Serge Koussevitzky conducting
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Composer, piano soloist
Prelude, Fugue and Riffs, for Solo Clarinet
1949
and Jazz ensemble
Duration 9 mins
First performance October 16th 1955
Benny Goodman and Band
Serenade (after Plato's Symposium)
1954
Duration 33 mins
First performance September 12th 1954
Composer conducting
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Isaac Stern, violin soloist
Symphonic Suite from 1955
On the Waterfront
Duration 23 mins
First performance August 11 1955
Composer conducting
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Overture from Candide 1956
Duration 4 mins
First performance January 26th 1957
Composer conducting
New York Philharmonic
Symphonic Dances from 1960
West Side Story
Duration 4 mins
First performance February 13th 1961
Lukas Foss conducting
New York Philharmonic
Fanfares 1961
i. First performance January 19th 1961
Composer conducting
ii. First performance March 24th 1961
New York City High School of Music
and Art - pupils
Kaddish, Symphony No. 3 1963
Duration 40 mins
First performance December 10th 1963
Composer conducting
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Jennie Tourel, mezzo soprano soloist
Chichister Psalms 1965
Duration 18 mins
First performance July 15th 1965
Composer conducting
New York Philharmonic
John Bogart, alto soloist
Two Meditations from Mass for Orchestra
1971
Duration 7 mins
First performance October 31st 1971
Maurice Peres
Austin Symphony Orchestra
Meditation III from Mass for Orchestra
1972
First performance May 21st 1972
Composer conducting
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Dybbuk Suites 1 and 2 from the ballet
1974
Duration 45 mins
First performance August 16th 1974
Composer conducting
New York Philharmonic
Three Meditations from Mass 1977
for Violoncello and Orchestra
Duration 19 mins
First performance October 11th 1977
Composer conducting
National Symphony Orchestra
Mstislav Rostropovich, cello soloist
Songfest 1977
Duration 40 mins
First full performance October 11th 1977
Composer conducting
National Symphony Orchestra
Clamma Dale, Rosalind Elias, Nancy Williams,
Neil Rosenshein, John Reardan, Donald Gramm
soloists
Slava ! (Overture for Orchestra) 1977
Duration 3 mins
First performance October 11th 1977
Mstislav Rostropovich conducting
National Symphony Orchestra
CBS Music 1977
First performance April 1st 1978 on
CBS Television
Divertimento for Orchestra 1980
Duration 15 mins
First performance September 25th 1980
Seiji Ozawa conducting
Boston Symphony Orchestra
A Musical Toast 1980
Duration 2 mins
First performance October 11th 1980
Zubin Mehta conducting
New York Philharmonic
Halil, for Solo Flute, String Orchestra and
1981
Percussion
Duration 15 mins
First performance May 23rd 1981
Composer conducting
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute soloist
Jubilee Games, Concerto for Orchestra
1989
Duration 30 mins
First full performance April 24th 1989
Composer conducting
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Ballet
Fancy Free 1944
First performance October 24th 1946
Composer conducting
Prelude, Fugue and Riffs 1949
First performance May 15th 1969
Robert Irving conducting
The Age of Anxiety 1949
First performance February 26th 1950
Leon Barzin conducting
Dybbuk
1974
First performance May 16th 1974
Composer conducting
Film
On the Waterfront 1954
Released July 28th 1954
Songs
I Hate Music, A Cycle of Five Kids Songs
1943
for Soprano and Piano
Words by the composer
First performance August 24th 1943
Afterthought 1945
Words by the composer
First performance October 24th
La Bonne Cuisine, Four Recipes for Voice
1947
and Piano
First performance October 10th 1948
Two Love Poems 1949
On poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
First performance of no. 1 March 13th 1949
First performance of no. 2 March 13th 1963
Get Hep!, Marching Song 1955
Words by the composer
So Pretty 1968
Words by Betty Comden and Adolph Green
First performance January 21st 1968
Arias and Barcarolles, for Mezzo Soprano,
1989
Baritone and Piano four hands
Choral
Two Hebrew folk song arrangements and
two original commissions 1945 to 1950
Harvard Choruses, 1957
Words by Alan Jay Lerner
First performance March 7th 1957
Warm-up, A Round for Mixed Chorus, 1970
used in Mass as the Responsary : Alleluia
A Little Norton Lecture, 1973
A setting of ee cummings 'if you can't
eat you got to'
Chamber
Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, 1942
Duration 10 mins
First performance April 21st 1942
David Glazier, clarinet
Composer, piano
Brass Music, 1948
First complete performance April 8th 1959
Members of New York Philharmonic
Shivaree, for Double Brass Ensemble 1969
and Percussion
Duration 2.30 mins
Two Meditations from Mass, for Violoncello
1971
and Piano
First performance March 28th 1972
Stepehen Kates, violoncello
Composer, piano
Opera
Trouble in Tahiti
Duration 40 mins
Libretto by the composer
First performance June 12th 1952
Festival of Creative Arts, Brandeis University
Conducted by the composer
A Quiet Place
Duration 149 mins (revised version)
Libretto by Stephen Wadsworth
First performance 17th June 1983
Houston Grand Opera, Houston
Conducted by John de Main
Findings by Leonard Bernstein pub. 1982 MacDonald
& Co is referenced.
Please let me know of mistakes, omissions etc.