He conducted its first performance in a special concert at the United Nations on October 24, 1971, two months before his 95th birthday.

In 2001 he made many people in Israel angry by conducting the music of Wagner in a concert.

In 1949 he conducted the Los Angeles Chamber Symphony in a concert to celebrate Schoenberg's 75th birthday.

He conducted the Vienna Philharmonic for the first time in 1965 in a concert at the Salzburg Festival.

He first conducted at NorrlandsOperan in a concert of English music in 2007.

Threatened by budget cuts, Ms. Guaspari conducted her best violin students in a triumphal concert at Carnegie Hall.

Now there stood Leonard Bernstein, a white-haired, 70-year-old patriarch, returning to conduct the Philharmonic on Monday night, in a concert of his own works.

In 1982 he hired the American Symphony Orchestra, rented a hall in Lincoln Center and conducted the work in a private concert.

He never recovered from a brain hemorrhage which struck him down while conducting the Syrian National Orchestra in a concert on the 27th of April 2002.

Leonard Bernstein conducted the New York Philharmonic in a concert on the 45th anniversary of his debut with it.