The Dybbuk on Stage Videos - Off-Broadway

Jerome Robbins' oeuvre is often lauded for evoking lived experience. In an all-new video, Bart Cook, former Principal Dancer and longtime assistant of Robbins, recalls an instance of the choreographer transfiguring 'chaos to beauty' after an alarming freak occurrence on tour.

Leonard Bernstein was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He took piano lessons as a boy and attended the Garrison and Boston Latin Schools. At Harvard University, he studied with Walter Piston, Edward Burlingame-Hill, and A. Tillman Merritt, among others. Before graduating in 1939, he made an unofficial conducting debut with his own incidental music to 'The Birds,' and directed and performed in Marc Blitzstein's 'The Cradle Will Rock.' Then at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, he studied piano with Isabella Vengerova, conducting with Fritz Reiner, and orchestration with Randall Thompson.