Bernstein at Brandeis Photo Gallery
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Photos courtesy of Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department, Brandeis, unless otherwise noted.
With trustee Adolph Ullman, reviewing plans for a new amphitheater at Brandeis, 1952
Stage set for Bernstein's "Trouble in Tahiti," 1952
Rehearsing at Brandeis, 1952
In the Ullman Amphitheater, 1952
In the Ullman Amphitheater with members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1952
With Brandeis music students, 1954
With Brandeis President Abram L. Sachar, 1973
Documentary
Watch the original 16mm film by Theodore Cron and Louis Lindauer ’53 on the inaugural Festival of the Arts, which was founded by Leonard Bernstein on the occasion of Brandeis’ first commencement in 1952. Guest artists included Merce Cunningham, Miles Davis and Aaron Copland. Bernstein conducted the world premiere of his opera, “Trouble in Tahiti,” and Marc Blitzstein’s translation of “The Threepenny Opera.”