Guides to Special Collections in the Music Division of the Library of Congress
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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2009536078
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Collection material in English
Beginning in 1953, and continuing until 1967, Leonard Bernstein gave many of his most significant music manuscripts to the Library of Congress; between 1965 and 1983, Bernstein gave 104 scrapbooks to the Library (five additional scrapbooks were given by Brandeis University in 1973). Other sources of material: Helen Coates, Bernstein's longtime friend and secretary, left Bernstein related items to the Library in her will (received in 1991); 1991 and 1993 gifts of the Springate Corporation (representatives of the Bernstein estate); in 1997, Burton Bernstein, brother of Leonard Bernstein, gave the Library ninety-five additional items to add to the Bernstein Collection, originally from their mother's apartment. The Bernstein estate donated approximately 1,500 additional letters to the collection in 2011.
Beginning in 1953, and continuing until 1967, Leonard Bernstein gave many of his most significant music manuscripts to the Library of Congress, including:
Helen Coates, Bernstein's longtime friend and secretary, left ninety-four letters, music manuscripts and other Bernstein related items to the Library of Congress in her will. The Library received the items in 1991. An additional 600 letters, which had been in the possession of Helen Coates, were also given to the Library by the Springate Corporation in 1991.
In 1993, the Springate Corporation, representatives of the Bernstein estate, increased the size of the Bernstein Collection many times over by giving to the Library hundreds of thousands of additional items. This included, not only additional music manuscripts, but correspondence, writings of all types, photographs, commercial and non-commercial recordings and audio-visual materials (now housed in the Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division), business papers, programs, fan mail, date books, realia, and other less common items. In addition to Bernstein's personal business papers, the extensive archives for his corporate identity, Amberson Inc., were also part of the gift.
In 1997, Burton Bernstein, brother of Leonard Bernstein, gave the Library of Congress ninety-five additional items to add to the Bernstein Collection. Originally from Jennie Bernstein's apartment, and consisting primarily of letters to their parents; including fifty-two from Leonard Bernstein, one from Felicia Bernstein, one from Aaron Copland and four from Helen Coates.
Further accruals are expected.
Work began on the processing of the Leonard Bernstein Collection soon after the bulk of the materials began arriving in 1993. In the years that have followed, innumerable people have worked on the processing of the collection and the writing and coding of its finding aid, including specialists, technicians, fellows, and interns. It is a collection that continues to grow, with rarely a year passing without significant additions to the collection. The finding aid is continually updated to reflect newly acquired materials that have been processed. There are still portions of the collection not yet processed or whose descriptions have not yet been added to the finding aid. Consult a reference librarian in the Music Division for more information about these materials.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
Commercial and non-commercial recordings and other audiovisual materials from the Leonard Bernstein Collection have been transferred to the Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, where they are identified as part of the Leonard Bernstein Collection (MAVIS collection no. 2511).
Materials from the Leonard Bernstein Collection are governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.) and other applicable international copyright laws.
The contents of the Leonard Bernstein Collection are available for examination and study in the Library of Congress Performing Arts Reading Room. As copyright holder, The Leonard Bernstein Office permits researchers to make reference copies of items under its control with the understanding that researchers must obtain the Leonard Bernstein Office's permission to make any commercial or public use of the material, whether for performance, recording, publication, etc. Please consult a reference librarian in the Library of Congress Music Division for further permission information. Requests to make public or commercial use of this Collections' material should be directed to Hannah Webster (she/her/hers), Head of Licensing, The Leonard Bernstein Office, Inc., 121 West 27th St., Suite 1104, New York, NY 10001, licensing@leonardbernstein.com.
Digital files regarding Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts were received on floppy disks. Access to digital content is available onsite only in the Performing Arts Reading Room and requires advance notice. Consult Music Division reference staff for more information.
All of the scrapbooks have been preserved on microfilm because of their fragile nature (Microfilm 99/20002 [MUS]).
Digitized images along with identifying information and a narrative introduction are also available through the Library of Congress Web site under the title: The Leonard Bernstein Collection at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/collmus.mu000003.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [item, date, container number], Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The Leonard Bernstein Collection is as exceptional a collection as its namesake would suggest. Bernstein, one of the most prominent figures in twentieth century American classical music, made his impact as a conductor, composer of classical and theater music, and as an educator through his books, conducting students at Tanglewood, and especially his various televised lecture series that helped define the potentials of that medium.
Bernstein came to national prominence virtually overnight with his last minute conducting debut with the New York Philharmonic, substituting for Bruno Walter on November 14, 1943. He was twenty-five. Because Bernstein was a national figure from the very beginning of his career, and because his friend and teacher, Helen Coates, became his secretary and "preserver of the flame" beginning in 1944, the Bernstein Collection is not only amazingly complete, but much of it is annotated by Miss Coates to an extraordinary degree. These factors combine to make the Leonard Bernstein Collection one of the most exceptional in the Music Division in the variety and scope of material it contains.
Both the construction of this finding aid and the processing of the collection are considered works in progress. Rather than wait until the entire collection is processed before making it available to researchers--our usual practice--we have decided to make each series available as it is completed. For access to the un-processed materials in the collection, written requests should be addressed to Head, Acquisitions and Processing Section, Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington DC 20540-4710. As each series is completed, an introduction to that material will be added at the beginning of the content list to that series.
The Leonard Bernstein Collection is organized in fourteen series:
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2009536078
The correspondence in the Leonard Bernstein Collection consists of more than
17,500 individual items from over 3,300 individuals or organizations. All material
from or relating to a correspondent is housed in its own folder(s) and arranged
chronologically. Undated material is filed at the back. Each identifiable
correspondent is indexed alphabetically in the finding aid along with the date
range and the number of items in the folder(s). Unidentified correspondence is at
the end. Most of the correspondence falls between the dates of 1932, the year of
Bernstein's engagement of Helen Grace Coates as piano teacher at the age of 14,
and 1990, the year of his death.
In addition to such standard items as letters, postcards, telegrams, and birthday
and greeting cards, the correspondence also contains the occasional photograph,
music manuscript, diary, appointment book, script, collection of poems, or art
work (e.g., sketches). No attempt was made to indicate all the non-standard items
where they occur, but on occasion a parenthetical note will be found regarding
such novelties.
Most of Bernstein's individual correspondents are filed under their own names. However, some are filed under organizational or business names, or topics, e.g.,
A significant amount of the correspondence includes Bernstein's responses to the
letters he received. These typically appear in the form of handwritten or typed
replies in the margins or on the backs of the letters received by Bernstein. The
handwritten responses are either in Bernstein's hand or that of Helen Coates in
her capacity as secretary. There is no indication in this finding aid where such
responses occur. In some cases, however, Bernstein's actual outgoing
letters--either originals, or photocopies--are present, either filed
chronologically within the correspondence, or collected separately in their own
folder. In both instances, parenthetical notes indicate the filing method (for
example, Burton Bernstein, Felicia Bernstein, Helen Coates, Serge Koussevitzky).
After Bernstein's death, Charlie Harmon and Harry Kraut contacted people likely to
have received letters from Bernstein and requested photocopies of that
correspondence. These photocopies are filed at the end of each correspondent's
folder. The only clue to the location of these items in the correspondence is
found by noting the date spans--as these items were solicited via a letter dated
post-1990 (also included)--most date spans which exceed 1990 indicate the presence
of photocopied Bernstein correspondence.
In addition, the Library included two other sets of material in the
Correspondence: over 300 condolence letters sent to Bernstein after the death of
his father, referenced under Bernstein, Samuel J.; and over 700 letters,
referenced under Coates, Helen, primarily from Bernstein to Coates, but also from
various other persons to Coates, from Coates to Bernstein, and from Bernstein to
several other persons. In the case of Helen Coates, each of the correspondents
found in her file is listed parenthetically following her name in the guide with
cross-references listed under the correspondent. For Samuel Bernstein's condolence
letters, no cross references are provided.
In December 2010, the Leonard Bernstein estate donated over 1800 additional pieces
of personal correspondence to the Library of Congress. Though much of this
material is intensely personal and had been previously sealed, the family felt
that since Bernstein has been dead over twenty years, the research value of the
correspondence outweighed most of the privacy concerns. This additional
correspondence has been physically added to the end of the series in boxes 60A-J,
but the names are arranged alphabetically and interfiled with the previous
correspondence in the finding aid. The hundreds of letters from dozens of
correspondents include 79 additional letters from Felicia Bernstein, 101 from
Shirley Bernstein, 37 from Helen Coates, 39 from Aaron Copland, 150 from David
Diamond, 67 from Martha Gellhorn, 15 from Lillian Hellman, and 78 from David
Oppenheim.
Many other series in the collection contain correspondence. In fact, "Fan Mail" and the "Personal Business Papers" under the Business Papers series are almost entirely correspondence, but even "Photographs" and "Writings" contain a certain amount--although the letters in the former are primarily addressed to members of Bernstein's staff, and letters in the latter include drafts of letters by Bernstein, some of which were never sent, and originals of letters sent by Bernstein (some of which appear to have been retrieved for inclusion in his book
Bernstein's family and staff were exceptional custodians of the correspondence prior to its coming to the Library and most of the organization and identification of materials was theirs. They have also always been responsive to questions that have come up during the course of our work, especially an attempt to identify as much of the unsigned, illegible, or sans surname signatures as possible. Special gratitude is due to Albert Tucker, who performed most of the work on the correspondence in the collection and prepared the following inventory.
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The Writings series contains a diverse group of documents that reflect Bernstein's wide-ranging activities. Spanning 1928 to 1991 (when an article was published posthumously in the
The Writings series is divided into four subseries. The first, General Writings
Chronology, includes the bulk of the writings, arranged in date order--by date of
creation, publication, performance, presentation, or other approximate date. This
is followed by the Television Scripts subseries which is further subdivided into
the Young People's Concerts Television Scripts (arranged chronologically by air
date); Bound Television Scripts; Television Scripts Collections--Notebooks; and
TelePrompTer scripts. The final two subseries are Norton Lectures/The Unanswered
Question and Book Materials. The Norton lectures include not only Bernstein's
manuscript notes, draft scripts, and annotated typescripts, but also notes and
outlines of others who helped prepare the lectures, research materials, television
production materials, TelePrompTer scripts, and correspondence relating to the
production and distribution of the lectures on video. The Book Materials include
typescripts, musical examples, planning materials, correspondence with the
publisher, and publisher's proofs. The contents within the various subseries are
not exclusive. For example, the General Writings Chronology contains Norton
lecture material, book materials and television scripts.
Where titles exist, they appear as the initial entry in the "Title/Description"
field in this guide. Either in place of, or following, a title, but always in
square brackets, is a description of the type of work represented--article, poem,
lecture, etc.--including any information known about where or for what or whom
items were created, published or presented, and often a brief topic description.
Most descriptions are self-explanatory; one exception is "imaginary conversation,"
a term created by Bernstein to describe a particular type of article. The Writings
series contains sketches and/or complete drafts for twelve imaginary
conversations, of which, apparently, only three or four were published. This guide
can most successfully be used by those able to access it by computer and do word
searches. In that way, for instance, the fifteen writings with titles or
descriptions that include "Mahler" can be found in a matter of seconds. Searching
for "Tanglewood" will garner the researcher not only writings about Tanglewood,
but writings on various topics presented at Tanglewood.
In terms of discrete works, the largest number of items in the Writings series is
contained in the General Writings Chronology list; however, in terms of the amount
of space required to house material, the various groupings are roughly
proportionate. For example, while the total of 37 boxes of material described in
the general listing represents hundreds of titles, the 39 boxes of Norton lectures
material represent a total of six lectures. The Writings series includes notes,
drafts, and completed works intended for presentation before a public readership
or audience: music reviews and other articles; program and liner notes; speeches
and statements; lectures; concert preview/explanatory scripts; TV scripts and
other TV or radio commentary; books authored by Bernstein; introductions and
prefaces to books by other authors; lyrics; etc.
The General Writings Chronology list also contains manuscripts or typescripts
intended for more limited readerships: school and extra-curricular work while at
Boston Latin School or Harvard College (short stories, essays, work assignments
and exams, college thesis, music reviews); letters, birthday poems, memos, and
recommendations, written for family, friends, colleagues, proteges, or staff; and
poems and poem translations, crossword puzzles and games, a sleep record from
January and February 1983, annotated texts or books, and marginal notes, written
by Bernstein for his own use.
Some anomalies will be found in the Writings series, among which are the
following: interviews; a Charlie Harmon phone list; a transcript of a speech by
Joachim Kaiser at the bestowal of the Karl Amadeus Hartmann Medal on Bernstein in
1986; a list of Bernstein's copyrighted works; and a catalog for the Museum of
Broadcasting's 1985 exhibition concerning Bernstein's television work. These
maladapts are housed in the Writings series both because this was where they were
filed prior to coming to the Library, and because they provide important direct
(interviews) or indirect (Joachim Kaiser speech) testimony concerning Bernstein's
life and how it touched the lives of others. Since this is what we hope the
Writings series conveys anyway, it seems not unreasonable to accept a few black
sheep within its fold.
A final caveat: because certain types of material are typically found in the Writings series, please do not assume that all such items in the collection are to be found here. One should, for example, also peruse the Amberson Business Papers subseries, which is known to contain, inter alia, interviews, recommendations, correspondence (personal), and speeches.
Includes Bernstein's notebooks from school, newspaper and journal articles, original poetry and song lyrics, program notes, speeches and lectures, radio and television scripts, general notes and correspondence related to his professional activities, and a significant number of concert talks from Thursday Evening Previews.
Arranged chronologically
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Contains the following subseries: Young People's Concerts Television Scripts, Bound Television Scripts, Television Scripts Collections - Notebooks, and Teleprompter Scripts.
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Includes Bernstein's manuscript notes, draft scripts, and annotated typescripts; notes and outlines of others who helped prepare the lectures; research materials; television production materials; teleprompter scripts; and correspondence relating to the production and distribution of the lectures on video
Includes typescripts, musical examples, planning materials, correspondence with the publisher, and publisher's proofs.
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The holograph music in the Bernstein Collection represents the music written in
Bernstein’s hand, from sketches to fair copies. A separate series of music has
not yet been fully described for inclusion in this finding aid, but is
accessible on request. That series includes manuscripts in the hands of
copyists and colleagues, photoreproductions (some of which are of Bernstein
manuscripts), printed and published music. This material includes full scores
and parts, and some of it includes edits and annotations in Bernstein’s
hand.
Much of the material came to us in envelopes that included substantive notes on
the history of their contents and relationships between works. These notes had
been prepared by Bernstein’s musical assistants, Jack Gottlieb, Charlie Harmon,
and others. To the degree possible, we transcribed this information and
included it in the notes for each work. We assume, but cannot attest to its
accuracy.
While this subseries is called holograph music, it does include other related materials such as notes, correspondence, and scripts that were included in the packages of music that we received. There are also occasional photocopies of manuscripts, particularly works where the originals were gifts to friends and family. Some complex works have been kept in groupings that were designated before we received them and may reflect various stages of sketches and versions of a work.
Not all of Bernstein’s holograph music manuscripts reside at the Library of Congress, and not all that do are part of our Bernstein Collection. In addition to the aforementioned gift pieces to friends and family, some works are known to live in the Kennedy Library, in Israel, and in private hands. Among the works that are found elsewhere within the Library’s collections are sketches and a short score for
There are various sources of the music manuscripts within our Bernstein Collection. The majority comes from the Bernstein estate, but significant portions were given to the Library by Bernstein himself between 1953 and 1967. This included manuscripts (but not necessarily all) for
The date range of the music manuscripts run from 1935, when Bernstein was 16 or 17, through 1990, a few months before he passed away. Although Bernstein is not generally thought of as having been particularly prolific as a composer, these manuscripts reveal a large number of obscure and unknown works.
First organized alphabetically by larger work title. Within these, the typical order is (where they exist): full scores, short scores or piano-conductor scores, piano-vocal scores, parts, scripts, and other materials. Some items may be further organized therein by smaller units, such as song titles, and/or arranged chronologically by year.
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This subseries comprises a wide variety of items: copies of Bernstein
manuscripts; scores in the hands of arrangers, orchestrators and assistants;
copyist manuscripts; photo-reproductions of various kinds; and printed music.
These materials came to the Library over several years and include items that
were edited, printed, compiled, or published after Bernstein's death.
Significant portions of the music are annotated by Bernstein, many of them
quite heavily, to the degree that, in some instances, they might almost be
considered holographs themselves. These annotations include corrections,
performance markings, new and changed material, and notes to himself and
colleagues. Many of the identifications, descriptions, and commentaries in this
portion of the finding aid were transcribed from notes on envelopes, folders,
or on items themselves and appear to be in the hands of Bernstein's musical
assistants, Jack Gottlieb or Charlie Harmon.
For some works, there are materials for many productions.
The production materials are a fairly modest percentage of this subseries, but includes scripts, correspondence, business papers, notes, audition materials, and other items. In the case of
Those researching the music in the collection would be advised to consult both the holograph and non-holograph items for a given work, in order to get a complete picture of Bernstein's intent and the range from his initial conception to final thoughts.
First organized alphabetically by larger work title. Within these, the typical order is (where they exist): full scores, short scores or piano-conductor scores, piano-vocal scores, parts, scripts, and other materials. Some items may be further organized therein by smaller units, such as song titles, and/or arranged chronologically by year.
Most of the photographs in the Bernstein Collection are organized in boxes, and
arranged chronologically--one to three boxes per year. The content of the
photographs can be accessed chronologically, or by using the two alphabetically
arranged indexes: an
A designation (44A/012) may represent either an individual photograph, or a
collection of images. When it represents multiple images, it is usually either a
collection of snapshots, a group of photographs affixed to a single piece of
paper, or even two 8"x10"'s affixed to either side of a piece of paper. In some
cases there may be additional copies, often enlarged, of one or more of these
individual images included in the group --these all may share the same
designation.
Designations are primarily in two sections. In most cases, the first two
characters represent the year of the photograph(s), i.e. "56" is 1956, and "87" is
1987. In cases where an exact year is unknown, but a decade is either known or
assumed, the second character is an "X", i.e. "6X" represents a period between
1960 and 1969. "MD" stands for "Mixed Dates," meaning, photographs that cover a
range of years and/or decades and must be kept together (usually because they are
affixed in a photo album); and "ND" stands for "No Dates known," meaning that
there is not enough information to even determine the likely decade when the
photograph(s) was taken. The other "odd" designations are: "HC" for holiday cards,
"LB" for a collection of portraits of Bernstein sent out on request, "FB" for a
collection of portraits and production shots of Felicia, "10MS" for Mass
production shots, "FD" for photographs used or considered for Findings, and "NL"
for images used in the Norton Lectures. The third character is usually the letter
"A". This signifies that the photograph(s) is/are kept in folders either singly or
in a small group with other photographs. When the letter is a "B," "C," "D," or
"E" it signifies a photo album. Photo albums are also bolded, and do not have
individual numeric designations for each image. When the third letter is an "S,"
it signifies that the item is in one of the two boxes of slides.
The second section --following the slash (/) --is a number representing either a
specific image or a group of images. Hence, "73A/027" is the 27th image (or group
of images) from the year 1973. "73B" represents any image included in the first
photo album from 1973.
Some designations have an additional field of information. These include "[Ov]"
for "Oversize," "[+Ov]" indicating a photograph that is both included in the
regular size photographs and in the oversize photographs, and "[Ov1]," "[Ov2],"
etc. representing the various degrees of oversize material.
There are two indexes to the photographs: the first is a
A large number of photographs came with identification written on the back,
margins, or included with various forms of notes. These were the basis for most of
the information in the indexes. However, it must be noted, as useful as this
information was, we know that this information is not infallible. For instance, we
encountered a number of photographs where copies of the exact same photograph were
marked with different dates, different locations, and the identification of the
people in the photographs included variant spellings. We made reasonable attempts
to determine correct spellings.
Many photographs are not represented in either of the indexes simply because there
was no identifying information. When one photograph is listed in an index, it is
not unusual for there to be other photographs near it that may be from the same
venue, but the photographs contained no identifying information so they were not
included in the index. So, it may be worth the researcher's time to look at the
photographs in surrounding folders to the one you have identified as containing
the desired subject matter.
In most cases, where a place as noted in the photograph has no identifying
features, for instance a portrait taken with a plain background, but notated as
having been taken in "St. Louis," that photograph would be unlikely show up in the
index under "St. Louis," unless it was within a range of other photographs that
included recognizable locations in "St. Louis." Similarly, if a photograph is
notated that Bernstein is conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, but no orchestra
members are visible in the photograph, the photograph is not likely to appear in
the index next to "Vienna Philharmonic."
A few folders are empty and are marked "[photo missing]." These are cases where the Library was provided with notebooks of photocopies of photographs for a given year, but the original photograph never turned up in the collection after the Library received it. The assumption is that these photographs were loaned out by the Bernstein organization, but they were not returned by the time the collection was given to the Library. We hope, in time, that these photographs will be found and inserted in their proper place. Until that time, they are not represented in either of the indexes.
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This series contains over fifty of Bernstein's datebooks dating from 1944 to 1990, and covering virtually his entire professional career. In some instances, more than one datebook covers the same time period. The datebooks have annotations in many hands, though primarily either those of Bernstein or his secretary Helen Coates.
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Over ninety schedules regarding Bernstein's travel, conducting, recording and other appearances between October 1983 and December 1992. Some schedules may cover the same time period as plans were changed or refined.
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Six address books appear to cover different periods of time and may have been used at various locations. One address book includes only foreign addresses. In addition, there are three telephone message books for the period 1988 to 1989.
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Iconography includes cartoons, pen and ink drawings, watercolors, prints, caricatures, and other items of a visual nature. Many of the works are representations of Bernstein or of a production conducted by Bernstein.
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The Programs series contains approximately 2,800 programs (including duplicates)
dating from 1925 through 1993. It should be noted, that many significant programs
may be found only in the Scrapbooks--particularly those dating through the 1950's.
While most of the programs in the collection are concert programs, the Programs
series also contains programs to other types of events, including memorial
services, films, stage works, radio or television series, tributes, festivals,
graduation ceremonies, award ceremonies, and recordings. In general, programs have
been organized in date order. In the case of festivals and events that cover a
range of dates we have used the earliest date. Some of the programs are for events
which Bernstein attended but did not participate in.
At the end of the Programs series are bound collections of programs and typed
lists or computer printouts listing Bernstein's concert programs. Some of these
items appear to have been compiled and annotated by Bernstein's assistant, Jack
Gottlieb. Additional items filed among the general chronology of programs include
tour itinerary schedules, clippings regarding specific programs, publicity
materials, theatre and orchestra publications, and invitations.
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The Business Papers series is divided into two subseries that reflect their
arrangement upon receipt by the Library of Congress: the Personal Business Papers,
and the Amberson Business Papers. The distinction between the two subseries is not
always clear. The Personal Business Papers reflect Bernstein’s business dealings
chiefly beginning in 1944 (and perhaps a bit earlier) and continuing through the
early 1970s when the Amberson Corporation increasingly took over aspects of that
work.
Amberson Enterprises, Inc., Bernstein’s management company, was founded February
20, 1959, with Helen Coates, Abraham Friedman (Bernstein’s lawyer) and H. Gordon
Freeman (Bernstein’s accountant) as directors. The company was named Amberson
after the German word Bernstein which means "amber." The materials in the Amberson
Business Papers reflect most of Bernstein’s business dealings starting in 1959,
and continuing slightly beyond Bernstein’s death in 1990. However, between 1958
and 1969, the New York Philharmonic, where Bernstein was music director, managed
many of Bernstein’s business dealings. It wasn’t until 1969 that Amberson began to
take on significantly larger duties and responsibilities, and the two sets of
business papers began to be thought of as separate entities.
Schuyler Chapin was appointed executive producer of Amberson Productions, an
affiliate of Amberson Enterprises, Inc., in September 1969. Chapin left Amberson
in 1971 to become general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, but remained on the
board of trustees. Harry Kraut (previously Tanglewood’s manager) was named
executive vice president of Amberson Enterprises, Inc. in January 1972. The
company’s name was changed to Amberson, Inc. in 1989. In 1995 it was renamed the
Leonard Bernstein Office, Inc./Amberson Holdings LLC.
The Amberson Business Papers reflect activities of several companies and related
subsidiaries, some of whose names have changed over the years. During Leonard
Bernstein’s lifetime, various Bernstein group companies were formed for music
publishing and concert/video production purposes. These include: Mozart Films,
Inc. (1966), which became Amberson Video, Inc. (1972); Amberson Pictures Corp.
(1969) renamed Amberson Productions, Inc., the same year; Amberson Festivals, Inc.
(date unknown) which became Video Music Education, Inc. (1973); Video Music Inc.
(also known as VMI); Video Music Productions, Inc. (also known as VMP); La Boheme,
Inc. (1986); Jalni Publications, Inc. (1978) and Jalni Enterprises, Inc. ("Jalni"
was derived from the initial letters of Bernstein’s children—Jamie, Alexander and
Nina); and Springate. This list is not considered complete, nor does it indicate
all the mergings.
The Amberson Business Papers were originally arranged in groupings according to
date ranges. As file space ran out, old files would be placed in storage to make
room for current and new files. The Amberson Business Papers series in the Leonard
Bernstein Collection is arranged in one alphabetical sequence with materials
arranged chronologically therein. In some cases, various names for files that are
obviously of the same type and subject were regularized under the same name. Later
additions to the series have been boxed separately at the end, but are interfiled
alphabetically within the finding aid series.
There is an additional grouping at the end of the Amberson Business Papers called the Coates, Gottlieb, Harmon and Proskauer Files. It reflects the papers of the following individuals who worked for Amberson: Helen G. Coates, Bernstein’s childhood piano teacher, became Bernstein's secretary at the beginning of his career and served in that capacity until her death in 1989. She began, annotated and maintained Leonard Bernstein’s personal and professional archives; Jack Gottlieb was Bernstein’s assistant at the New York Philharmonic from 1958 through 1966. He joined Amberson’s staff in the 1970s, working as editor and director of publications, and later as a consultant on all matters musical and archival; Charlie Harmon (same as Richard Charles Harmon) joined Amberson as personal assistant to Bernstein in 1982. He later served as archivist, then music editor; "Proskauer," represents the law firm Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn. Beginning around 1975, member Paul H. Epstein became counsel to Bernstein and Amberson.
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379 letters, telegrams, and other items of correspondence related to Leonard Bernstein from other Music Division collections have been digitized. The following are represented in this appendix: Autograph and Typescript Letters from Leonard Bernstein to Renée Longy Miquelle, 1940-1947; Shirley Bernstein Papers; David Diamond Papers; Irving Fine Collection; Lukas Foss Papers; David Oppenheim Collection; and the Mildred Spiegel Zucker Collection of Leonard Bernstein Correspondence and Related Materials. The finding aids for these collections should be consulted for accessing the physical items listed below.
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17 digitized audio clips related to Leonard Bernstein are available on the Library of Congress website. These represent only a fraction of Library of Congress recordings by or pertaining to Bernstein. Researchers are encouraged to contact the Recorded Sound Research Center for more information about other Bernstein recordings.
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Alphabetical index of individuals present in photographs, either alone or with Bernstein.
Alphabetical index of locations, events, and recreational activities that involved Bernstein in some capacity.