Bernstein (Leonard) is born in Lawrence.

The son of Russian immigrants who moved to Allston in 1920 and Roxbury in 1930, Leonard Bernstein graduates from the Garrison School and Boston Latin School, and performs his first public recital at Roxbury Memorial High School in 1934, graduates from Harvard College and the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. He become a protégé of Serge Koussevitzky while assistant conductor of the Berkshire Music Festival, moves to New York City in 1943, and becomes conductor of the New York City Symphony and musical director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. One of America’s preeminent composers and music educators, he begins hosting the “Young Peoples Concerts” series on national television in 1958. Bernstein dies in New York City on October 14, 1990, and is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.