Bernstein conducts Stravinsky's L'histoire du soldat at an informal Tanglewood tea party.

Unknown


Item type:
photographic object
Date of creation:
ca. 1940
Height:
25.4 cm  (10 in.)
Width:
20.3 cm  (8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
photography

    Item location

  • Library of Congress
    The Leonard Bernstein Collection, ca. 1920-1989series: Photographs
    box folder: box 199

Description

Bernstein conducts Stravinsky's L'histoire du Soldat at an informal Tanglewood tea party. Serge Koussevitzky - conductor and Bernstein mentor - and his wife Natalie look down from the balcony. The inscription to Helen Coates refers humorously to L'histoire d'un éléve - the tale of the student. 1940. (Music Division)

People as subjects

Bernstein, Leonard (1918-1990) (Conductor)
Koussevitzky, Sergey (1874-1951) (Conductor)

Musical works

illegible music notation

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

3368