What kind of life did Leonard bernstein live before he passed away?
College After graduation from Boston Latin School in 1934, Bernstein attended Harvard University, where he studied music with Walter Piston, the author of many harmony and counterpoint textbooks, and was briefly associated with the Harvard Glee Club.[7] One of his friends at Harvard was Donald Davidson, considered one of the leading philosophers of the 20th century, with whom he played piano four hands. Bernstein wrote and conducted the musical score for the production that Davidson mounted of Aristophanes’ play The Birds in the original Greek. Some of this music was later to be reused in Bernstein’s ballet Fancy Free. After completing his studies at Harvard, he enrolled at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he received the only “A” grade Fritz Reiner ever awarded in his class on conducting. During his time at Curtis, Bernstein also studied piano with Isabella Vengerova,[8] orchestration with Randall Thompson, counterpoint with Richard Stöhr, and score reading with Re
