Leonard Bernstein: Selected Anniversaries for Piano acoustic piano In Practicing the Piano

In Practicing the Piano

but younger musicians can enjoy playing the pieces under the guidance of a teacher

(Easy Piano Personality)

the work quickly found its way into European concert halls

Leonard Bernstein: Selected Anniversaries for Piano acoustic piano In Practicing the PianoMost of Bernstein's compositions for solo piano took the form of the Anniversary. Bernstein is not the first composer to have written a short homage to commemorate a special date; he perhaps took his inspiration from Virgil Thompson (1896 1989) and that composer's Portraits. Bernstein wrote a total of 29 Anniversaries spanning virtually the entirety of his creative life, from the early 1940s until the late 1980s. Each of the Anniversaries were written