Late Night with Leonard Bernstein is hosted by his daughter Jamie and features three internationally-acclaimed artists – soprano Amy Burton and pianists John Musto and Michael Boriskin.

He is now Music Director of the Sing Hallelujah Concert Series at Verizon Hall, bringing together 175 singers reaching out to the Jewish community of the Delaware Valley.A well-known insomniac for whom night was a time for creativity and friendship, deep introspection and revelry, the iconic Leonard Bernstein worked incessantly, often entertaining friends and guests late into the night and dazzling them with charismatic performances across a wide range of musical styles. He returned to Verizon Hall in February 2019, conducting a large 175 voice chorus and Cantorial soloists. In May 2018 he conducted a performance of the Bernstein Chichester Psalms, featuring a chorus of 175 singers on the Verizon Hall stage. Hazzan Tilman served as creative consultant for the Bernstein Centennial Exhibit mounted by the National Museum of American Jewish His-tory. Hazzan Tilman has been speaking about the Leonard Bernstein Centennial, specifically the Jewish content of Bernstein’s compositions, for three years. In May 2017, Hazzan Tilman presented the pre-concert lecture on the Verizon Hall stage introducing the Philadelphia Orchestra’s performances of the Bernstein Jeremiah Symphony., and he has lectured on the Bernstein Kaddish Symphony before the Philadelphia Orchestra’s presentation of the composer’s Third Symphony. In 2015, he lectured on the stage of Verizon Hall on the Bernstein Mass, prior to the Philadelphia Orchestra performances. He is conductor of the Delaware Valley Cantors Assembly Ensemble. He has conducted, lectured, and sung throughout the USA, in Santiago, Berlin, Munich, Prague, Warsaw, and Havana. Since August 2011, Hazzan Tilman is choral director of Shir KI, the adult choir of Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel, Elkins Park, Pa, and also serves as pastoral outreach professional. He has completed a five-year tenure as Associate Professor at the H. Hazzan Tilman served as Music Director/Rosh Musica at three Camps Ramah and at the Brandeis Bardin Institute in Simi Valley, California. His Beth Sholom choirs toured Israel, Prague, Budapest, Krakow, Warsaw, and Havana. In May 2016, Hazzan Tilman was awarded the Doctor of Hebrew Letters degree, honoris causa, from Gratz College, and in 2008, the Doctor of Music degree, honoris causa, from The Jewish Theological Seminary. He is Hazzan Emeritus of Beth Sholom Congregation of Elkins Park, retiring in 2011 after 36 years. At Juilliard, he was a conducting student of Abraham Kaplan, conductor of the choruses on the premiere recordings of Leonard Bernstein’s choral/orchestral compositions. Miller Cantorial School, and the Juilliard School, majoring in Choral Conducting. Tilman has earned degrees from Columbia College, the H. This series was co-sponsored by The JTS Library and the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. and Dora Abbell Librarian and professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, JTS, served as moderator. This lecture examines several of these works, Hashkiveinu, Yigdal, Simchu Na, and even West Side Story, Candide, and MASS.ĭr. At least 20 Bernstein works contain Jewish musical elements, motifs, themes, contents, and theology, reflecting his upbringing, education, and identity.

Maestro Bernstein put his Jewish identity in many of his compositions. He was educated at Congregation Mishkan Tefila, Boston Latin School, Harvard University, Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, and at the Tanglewood Music Center. Maestro Leonard Bernstein was an incredibly versatile musician, known for his major contributions as world class composer in a multiplicity of styles, virtuoso pianist, and orchestra conductor of the highest caliber.īorn into an orthodox Jewish home, Maestro Bernstein was raised in a Conservative synagogue in the Boston area. Tilman examines the works of Leonard Bernstein using a rich variety of musical recordings and archival photographs.

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