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Performance TitleInternational Celebrity Concert - New York Philharmonic Orchestra with Leonard Bernstein
Performance Date3 June 1976
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersLeonard Bernstein - piano,
William Warfield - vocals, narrator
Orchestra or BandNew York Philharmonic Orchestra
ConductorsLeonard Bernstein
Set List'American Festival Overture', Schuman,
'The Unanswered Question', Ives,
'Symphony No.3', Roy Harris,
'Lincoln Portrait', Copland,
'Rhapsody in Blue', Gershwin,
'An American in Paris', Gershwin
Performance NotesThe concert was part of a bicentennial tour throughout Europe that Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra made to mark 200 years since the Declaration of American Independence on 4 July 1776. The tour ended with a free concert in Central Park, New York.

The concert was recorded and broadcast by London Weekend Television.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1976/87),
8 B&W Photographs (RAHE/3/1976/2)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1976/87International Celebrity Concert - New York Philharmonic Orchestra with Leonard Bernstein3-4 June 1976
RAHE/3/1976/2Photographs of the International Celebrity Concert - New York Philharmonic Orchestra with Leonard Bernstein3-4 June 1976
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Odaloozowl_XidInternational Celebrity Concert - New York Philharmonic Orchestra with Leonard Bernstein2
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/333Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York; 1842-; American orchestra
DS/UK/16015Warfield; William (1920-2002); American concert bass-baritone singer and actor
DS/UK/964Bernstein; Leonard (25 August 1918-14 October 1990); American composer, conductor, author, lecturer and pianist
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