1993 | Honored with the renaming of 65th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue as Leonard Bernstein Place |
1973 | As Charles Eliot Norton Professor of History at Harvard, lectured on linguistics as applied to musical analysis |
1958 | First American-born director of New York Philharmonic |
1957 | Made co-director of New York Philharmonic (with Dimitri Mitropoulos) |
1954 | First original film score, "On the Waterfront" |
1953 | Was first American-born conductor to be engaged by La Scala in Milan, Italy |
1949 | First film credit (song composer), "On the Town" |
1947 | Made principal conductor of New York Philharmonic |
1944 | Scored first Broadway musical, "On the Town |
1944 | Composed first ballet score, "Fancy Free" |
1943 | Substituted for Bruno Walter as conductor of New York Philharmonic concert on November 14 |
1942 | Hired by Artur Rodzinski as assistant conductor of New York Philharmonic |
1942 | Composed first symphony, "Jeremiah" (Symphony No. 1) |
1940 | Worked at Harms-Remick music publishing company, writing popular arrangements under pseudonym, Lenny Amber (Bernstein in English) (date approximate) |
| Played piano for musical group, The Revuers (Adolph Green, Betty Comden, Judy Holliday), at Village Vanguard, New York |