Victoria Martino & James Lent Celebrate Leonard Bernstein
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library is pleased to announce LENNY’S CENTENNIAL, a concert by Victoria Martino and James Lent celebrating the centennial of Leonard Bernstein’s birth with a special program of his rare and ravishing compositions for violin and piano. This special centenary celebration will reflect the extraordinary breadth of the legendary composer’s creative genius, featuring works that range from early sonatas to his mature Serenade after Plato’s “Symposium,” rounded out by the spectacular suite from West Side Story. Composer, conductor, educator, humanitarian Leonard Bernstein was a larger-than-life figure who made an outstanding contribution to humanity, and continues to exert an inestimable influence. Don’t miss this opportunity to celebrate his life and work by embarking upon an inspiring musical journey into the composer’s most intimate recesses of heart and mind.