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A Cycle of Five Kid Songs for Soprano

LEONARD BERNSTEIN

Leonard Bernstein’s talents are formidable, to say the least. As composer,
pianist and conductor he has moved in the diverse worlds of Broadway and the

Concert Hall and has left his distinct mark on both.

His career moved swiftly after he graduated from Harvard in 1939 where he
studied under Walter Piston. He then went on to the Curtis Institute in Phila-
delphia and studied conducting with Fritz Reiner. After graduating in 1941,
Dr. Serge Koussevitsky took Mr. Bernstein under his wing. He later became

Dr. Koussevitsky’s assistant at the popular Tanglewood summer concerts in

the Berkshires.

At 26 Leonard Bernstein exploded on the Broadway scene and became part of
its permanent canon with the opening of On The Town in December of 1944.
From that song and dance frolic of footloose sailors on shore leave sprung
Fancy Free, a ballet which has become part of the repertoire of leading dance

companies.

While he has composed such fine orchestral works as the ‘‘Jeremiah’’ Symphony
and Age of Anxiety (Second Symphony), it is through his show songs that he has
achieved such renown as a composer: Candide, Wonderful Town, Trouble in

Tahiti, and his powerful and haunting theatre masterwork West Side Story.

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