Leonard Bernstein Collection, 1900-1990
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Letter from Leonard & Felicia Bernstein to Helen Coates, 1957
excerpt: "Happy and well magnificent weather charming hotel" From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, December 22, 1946
excerpt: "I'm toying with the notion of becoming engaged to Felicia...Kouss has me in circles. He wants me to marry immediately, he says movies are fine, 'but not now', whatever 'now' is, and he doesn't want m... More
Letter from Helen Coates to Leonard Bernstein, 1981
excerpt: "No one here seems to know whether you will be giving a concert at the Vatican...I hope all went well and that you were pleased with the premiere of your 'Halil'. I hear it was a great success..." Fro... More
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, August 1937
excerpt: "I'm having a splendid time here at camp..." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, March 2, 1955
excerpt: "Florence desperate news Edward Smith please call have him send details cast sets etc..." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, December 22, 1946
excerpt: "I'm toying with the notion of becoming engaged to Felicia...Kouss has me in circles. He wants me to marry immediately, he says movies are fine, 'but not now', whatever 'now' is, and he doesn't want m... More
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, May 18, 1965
excerpt: "A word from Oslo, where I've just arrived to see West Side, after a most triumphant night in Copenhagen." From: Correspondence Series
Bernstein with his secretary Helen Coates and his assistant Charlie Ha...
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Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, October 3, 1953
excerpt: "[Paris is] a glorious city: and really, I must conduct there one day...Israel is like coming home again...I am to dedicate the Ein-Gev auditorium with a concert on the 13th...I've been considering th... More
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, December 12, 1946
excerpt: "I've an idea which may make this picture a phenomenal thing for Hollywood...then I can finish it in June, assuming that the Soviet invitation doesn't go through...As to the Facsimile, I hope to have t... More
Young People's Concerts Scripts: A Tribute to Teachers pencil on yello...
From: Young People's Concerts Television Scripts Series
Letter from Helen Coates to Leonard Bernstein, n.d.
excerpt: "For your birthday I can only wish you what I have been wishing you for fifty-three years--health, happiness, peace of mind, and the fulfillment of all your dreams." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, April 11, 1955
excerpt: "I am now rehearsing the new cast for Boheme, which is glorious...I am not au courant of the jazz field at the moment...Munch cabbled me asking to make an enormous cut in the last movement [of the Sere... More
Letter from Leonard & Felicia Bernstein to Helen Coates, August 24, 19...
excerpt: "...cousin uncle both fine..." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, 1951
excerpt: "Stopped off for two lovely days with the Marcuses. Glorious people." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, January 31, 1945
excerpt: "...the orchestra is fine, works very responsively." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, May 16, 1955
excerpt: "Love from Trieste--fascinating town--orchestra surprisingly good..." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, May 9, 1946
excerpt: "This is the greatest day in Czech history." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, February 19, 1943
excerpt: "I've suddenly made an unexpected debut at Town Hall!...Virgil Thomson stood there on that stage and acclaimed me publicly for five minutes." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, August 31, 1979
excerpt: "The concerts have all been smashing: The Israel Orchestra has never played better; our recording's of Mendhelsohn & Prokofieff are astonsihing; & the Beethoven Ninth was as never before--" From: Corr... More
Letter from Helen Coates to Leonard Bernstein, November 14, 1940
excerpt: "It would be rather fun to go along with you to the recording." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, December 1946
From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, June 12, 1947
excerpt: "Paris Brussels wonderful successes...replacing Milstein tonight with Ravel..." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard & Felicia Bernstein to Helen Coates, May 20, 1958
excerpt: "First concert Santiago glorious triumph..." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, April 1, 1966
excerpt: "...now Falstaff is over & recorded...I've been up to my ears in Das Lied von der Erde...Dieskau sings it like a god...And the public--I can't describe it to you: the greatest love affair I've ever ha... More
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, April 18, 1947
excerpt: "Safe in Paris visa problems staggering anything may happen what fun" From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, n.d.
excerpt: "Seems like the broadcast is off Saturday." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, January 9, 1951
excerpt: "WE ARE PREGNANT!...You know how I've always been a sucker for things that seem to happen as if directed by fate..." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, November 1950
excerpt: "Also this one" From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, April 20, 1951
excerpt: "Today I have moved into this super-elegant house [in Mexico]..." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, n.d
excerpt: "Tanglewood promises to be confused, yet much simpler without the BSO." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, July 8, 1959
excerpt: "So sorry to have missed your departure." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, May 26, 1981
excerpt: "All goes well despite problems of schedule, singer, etc." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, May 26, 1981
excerpt: "Pls find correction of previous telex:..." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard & Felicia Bernstein to Helen Coates, December 8, 1...
excerpt: "Premiere postponed tuesday night please advise parents..." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Felicia Bernstein to Helen Coates, December 13, 1963
excerpt: "It has been an unbelievable experience we are all exhausted!" From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, December 1963
excerpt: "Merry Xmas!" From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, December 20, 1965
excerpt: "This check wishes you a happy and helathy New Year, and carries my loving thanks. 1966 will also bring you a richly deserved raise in salary..." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Helen Coates to Leonard Bernstein, August 25, 1979
excerpt: "may tour birthday be as happy as the one you gave me." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Helen Coates to Leonard Bernstein, February 28, 1978
excerpt: "...The Concert of the Century (Carnegie Hall concert) won a Grammy award for best classical album of the year." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, August 26, 1944
excerpt: "I rehearsed the orchestra, and they loved me, & the music, & really began to sound." From: Correspondence Series
Helen Coates to Leonard Bernstein, December 1, 1945
excerpt: " I emphasized that you were missing both home and Seymour I arrived at 11:15 would have done your heart good to see the welcome I received from your orchestra."
Letter from Felicia Bernstein to Helen Coates, January 22, 1947
excerpt: "...your friendship means so much to me...there will probably be very hard times ahead I know that, but good times too, please help us have them -- if you can." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, October 3, 1951
excerpt: "The money is burning up (but why not?)." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, September 24, 1953
excerpt: "Felicia tells me that she has written you of her decision to join you in Israel around the middle of October...Abe F. just called me and he had a meeting with Samuel French yesterday [re Peter Pan]." ... More
Letter from Felicia Bernstein to Helen Coates, January 26, 1952
excerpt: "Right now we have both sets of parents on our hands--I think we are are about to lose our minds and have decided that parents should be heard from and not seen!" From: Correspondence Series
Helen Coates to Leonard Bernstein, March 21, 1944
excerpt: " just had a long talk with your sweet mother over the phone appreciate you thinking of me I'm coming, and for all three performances "
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, March 3, 1945
excerpt: "...and even spending a long time with Rubinstein and Piatigorsky wasn't great compensation." From: Correspondence Series
Helen Coates to Leonard Bernstein, February 26, 1946
excerpt: " Friede called this morning to tell me that it is ALL SET for our trip to London Ralph Hawkes has heard from the manager of the London Philharmonic...your trip to Prague was announced in Leonard Lyon'... More
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, April 19, 1951
excerpt: "I want a little rest from being a professional Jew...in case [Koussevitzky] should find himself not well enough at the beginning of Tanglewood season, the whole thing would devolve upon my shoulders..... More
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, June 1, 1964
excerpt: "For dear Helen, in remembrance and gratitude--" From: Correspondence Series
Helen Coates to Leonard Bernstein, October 25, 1939
excerpt: "Your grand letter gave me a real thrill to hear how wonderfully everything is working out for you at Curtis."
Helen Coates to Leonard Bernstein, December 17, 1946
excerpt: " does really sound like an idyll you and Felicia so happy your idea for the picture sounds very unique "have someone like Hermann and Wattenberg look over any contract you intend to sign "
Helen Coates to Verna Fine Gordon, January 31, 1976
The Irving Fine Collection
Letter from Helen Coates to Leonard Bernstein, April 4, 1955
excerpt: "I found one house [in the Berkshires] that would be ideal if we can get it for the whole summer...I just called Benny G[oodman] and he said he thought that they would wait until your return to record ... More
Letter from Helen Coates to Leonard Bernstein, April 26, 1955
excerpt: "[Heinsheimer] said at once that he had the recording rights to [Trouble in Tahiti], not you, and that he could let them do it just as it is being done now on Broadway if he wanted to." From: Correspon... More
Verna Fine to Helen Coates, n.d
The Irving Fine Collection
Helen Coates to Verna Fine, May 29, 1963
The Irving Fine Collection
Letter from Felicia Bernstein to Helen Coates, May 7, 1963
excerpt: "It's all over. Mummy died tonight at 11:10. Thank God, it was such a long terrible thing." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, September 13, 1959
excerpt: "...however exciting Russia may have been--and it was!--there is a general oppressive feeling there, of being watched & followed & listened to, of drabness & monotony of thought...the peak of it all wa... More
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, May 16, 1948
excerpt: "Milan was a real triumph; screaming audience & raving critics. They call me 'the other Leonardo'..." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, April 30, 1945
excerpt: "Keep your fingers crossed for Jeremiah. I've been collecting themes more than anything else these days...But the ideas keep hammering at me: a piano concerto, a ballet, songs for Tourel, the Kouss. ... More
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, May 7, 1958
excerpt: "It just occurred to me that the Stadium program is supposed to open with Villa Lobos. If this is so, could you get it changed to the Chavez Sinfonia India which is a much better & more brilliant piec... More
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, January 28, 1978
excerpt: "Tomorrow is the live TV broadcast [of Fidelio]--I pray it will go well." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Helen Coates to Leonard Bernstein, December 25, 1984
excerpt: "As the years pass, I find myself less and less able to find the words to thank you, not only for your bountiful gift, but so much more for your wonderful friendship and loyalty to me." From: Correspon... More
Letter from Helen Coates to Leonard & Felicia Bernstein, January 21, 1...
excerpt: "[John Mehegan] says that bop is not representative of the whole field of jazz...Olga is apprehensive about the Berkshire Music Center...I got your letter of agreement (your contract) with Brandeis thi... More
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, July 13, 1950
excerpt: "...the Mahler was a sensation of Amsterdam...The Age [of Anxiety] went well last night..." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, March 4, 1945
excerpt: "There is still no trace of Hashkivenu. Please tell Dr. Putterman to pray for it, or he'll never get it...I find myself tempted by Jennie Tourel's voice again." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, December 18, 1951
excerpt: "Eddie Specter called me from Pitts. the other day to ask me (on the quiet) if I wanted the orchestra permanently next season...I keep trying to decide if I want an orchestra at all...Tell Adler that I... More
Letter from Helen Coates to Leonard Bernstein, December 8, 1940
excerpt: "...Mother and I listened with rapt attention and great joy to your broadcast yesterday." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, June 1, 1945
excerpt: "[Arrived in Mexico]...then the Chavez concert...then the opera opens..." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Helen Coates to Leonard & Felicia Bernstein, October 26, 1...
excerpt: "The MCA contract business is being ironed out...I'm glad you have made your decision about taking your leave from Tanglewood next summer." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, February 21, 1949
excerpt: "The [Age of Anxiety] languishes on page 90 for want of paper..." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, October 17, 1939
excerpt: "As to conducting, it looks like a long uphill climb, but I proceed nothing daunted, despite all the venemous attacks I hear on all sides against Mr. Reiner..." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, October 17, 1939
excerpt: "As to conducting, it looks like a long uphill climb, but I proceed nothing daunted, despite all the venemous attacks I hear on all sides against Mr. Reiner..." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, December 1956
excerpt: "Merry Christmas Dear Helen" From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, July 19, 1957
excerpt: "The happiest of all birthdays to my dear Helen" From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, August 29, 1944
excerpt: "The concert [with the Los Angeles Symphony in the Hollywood Bowl] went as well as can be expected." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, June 22, 1945
excerpt: "Please wire collect biographical story and dope on Fancy Free to...San Francisco...for program notes" From: Correspondence Series
Helen Coates to Irving Fine, January 19, 1945
The Irving Fine Collection
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, November 26, 1945
excerpt: "Dont let Freida forget she is working for Heinsdorf too." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, August 21, 1948
excerpt: "arrived safe and happy four blow outs but never felt better" From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, 1985
excerpt: "Thinking of you with love" From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, n.d.
excerpt: "...the predominant item that weekend is the recording of the Diamond piece." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Helen Coates to Leonard Bernstein, October 11, 1988
excerpt: "I can sign checks, and that I do, for your office, almost every day. Also, I keep up with your fan mail. I'm doing very well, but my energy gives out." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, 1982
excerpt: "I think of you so often here, `mid the drama and beauty (and exhaustion)." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, June 8, 1958
excerpt: "Staying Alvear Palace instead Plaza..." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Helen Coates to Leonard & Felicia Bernstein, November 27, ...
excerpt: "I wrote you that Weisgal wanted my help in getting some music for the Weizman dinner on Nov. 29th..." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Helen Coates to Leonard Bernstein, October 2, 1953
excerpt: "...I received a call from Mr. Florman about a recording that Johnny Mehegan has made of your music...[Abe F.] had gone over the MCA contract once and was very disturbed about the broad coverage it con... More
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, December 1954
excerpt: "As always, I am a little bit embarrassed about a check. It is only a way of saying how much you mean to my life, and have meant for so many years." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, August 21, 1962
excerpt: "Perfectly okay remain London until fourth..." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, April 15, 1968
excerpt: "Rosenkavalier glorious public ecstatic 48 curtain calls..." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Helen Coates to Leonard Bernstein, April 12, 1968
excerpt: "my dearest wishes are with you for another triumph..." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Felicia Bernstein to Helen Coates, November 20, 1970
excerpt: "England touches me deeply..." From: Correspondence Series
Letter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, May 2, 1971
excerpt: "My last concert tonight, which was glorious, very special, but what a relief to have it over and come home. Jerusalem is dawning outside my window like a shining myth." From: Correspondence Series
Helen Coates to Leonard Bernstein, October 25, 1939
excerpt: "Your grand letter gave me a real thrill to hear how wonderfully everything is working out for you at Curtis."