Leonard Bernstein

Bernstein Conducts Stravinsky Leonard Bernstein

In remembrance of the great composer and conductor Igor Stravinsky (June 17, 1882 - April 6, 1971). "The last great father-figure of Western music" was how Leonard Bernstein eulogized Igor Stravinsky in 1972 before his homage concert in London a year after the composer's death. Stravinsky's works, he asserted, "sum up and embrace all of music itself - from primitive folk art to highly sophisticated serialism, from rarefied church music to outspoken jazz."