Leonard Bernstein: Selected Anniversaries for Piano acoustic piano A hit-packed supplementary songbook that

A hit-packed supplementary songbook that correlates perfectly with the Hal Leonard Adult Piano Method Book 2

In Practicing the Piano

deeper tonality of a taller upright piano

Piano Level: 4-5

the work quickly found its way into European concert halls

Leonard Bernstein: Selected Anniversaries for Piano acoustic piano A hit-packed supplementary songbook thatMost 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