HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOZART! "Mozart was elegance itself, a natural product of the sophisticated and gracefully mannered court life of his time. And this grace is reflected in all his music." -Leonard Bernstein, Young People's Concert "A Toast to Vienna" Enjoy the below clip of Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic in the famous "Overture" from "Le nozze di Figaro". | Leonard Bernstein

“If I HAD to name my all-time favorite piece of music I think I would vote for the Andante [of Mozart’s Piano Concerto in G Major] we are to hear now. It is Mozart at the peak of his lyrical powers, combining serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity in one great lyric improvisation." -Leonard Bernstein "The Ageless Mozart" Do you have an all-time favorite piece of music? Please enjoy this video excerpt of the second movement, Andante, of Bernstein as pianist and conductor with the Vienna Philh

224K views · 9.9K reactions | HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOZART! 拾 "Mozart was elegance itself, a natural product of the sophisticated and gracefully mannered court life of his time. And this grace is reflected in all his music." -Leonard Bernstein, Young People's Concert "A Toast to Vienna" Enjoy this excerpt of Leonard Bernstein conducting the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and soprano Arleen Auger in the "Alleluja" from Mozart's Exsultate, Jubilate. | Leonard Bernstein | Facebook

29K views · 107 reactions | “Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” - composer Leonard Bernstein who would've been 100 years old today. | Biography | Facebook