Leonard Bernstein

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1918
 
1937
Béla Bartók premieres his Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
1938
 
 
1939
Conducting studies under Serge Koussevitzky at Berkshire Music Center, Massachusetts
Conducting studies under Fritz Reiner at the Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia
World War II Begins
1940
Completed First Symphony, "Jeremiah"
 
1941
 
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
1942
 
 
1943
Appointed assistant conductor New York Philharmonic
 
1944
D-Day
1945
First computer built
1946
 
 
1947
Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier
1948
Musical advisor, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, 1948-1949

Musical advisor, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, 1948–1949

State of Israel founded
1949
 
1950
 
Senator Joseph Mcarthy begins Communist witch hunt
1951
Arnold Schoenberg dies
1952
 
1953
 
1954
Brown v. Board of Education makes segregation illegal in U.S.
1955
James Dean dies
1956
 
1957
Soviet satellite Sputnik launches the Space Age
1958
Edgard Varèse completes Poème électronique
1959

Publishes first book, The Joy of Music

The Sound of Music opens on Broadway
1960

Organized Mahler centenary season with New York Philharmonic.

First televised presidential debates
1961
Berlin Wall built
1962
 
1963
President John F. Kennedy is assasinated

1964
 
The Beatles perform at Carnegie Hall
1965
 
1966

Published The Infinite Variety of Music

First engagements with the LSO, VPO, and the Vienna State Opera

Mao Zedong begins the Cultural Revolution in communist China
1967
The Six-Day Arab-Israeli War
1968
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy assasinated
1969
First man on the moon
1970
Became advisor to Tanglewood, 1970-1974

Became advisor to Tanglewood, 1970–1974

The Concorde made its first supersonic flight
1971
Dmitri Shostakovich completes his final symphony
1972
 
 
1973

Began the first of his six Norton Lectures at Harvard University

 
1974
President Nixon resigns
1975
 
Arthur Ashe became the first black man to win a Wimbledon singles title
1976
Philip Glass completes Einstein on the Beach
1977
 
Star Wars released
1978
Sony introduces the Walkman radio
1979
 
 
1980
 
1981
Sandra Day O’Connor becomes first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court
1982

Published Findings

The first successful heart transplant is performed
1983
1984
 
The first MTV Video Music Awards are held in New York City
1985
 
1986
US space shuttle Challenger disaster
1987
 
John Adams completes his opera Nixon in China
1988
 
1989
The Berlin Wall is dismantled
1990

Launched the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan

Nelson Mandela released after 27 years in prison

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