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Photo credit

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Leonard Bernstein by Jack Mitchell (high quality)
By
Jack Mitchell
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CC BY-SA 4.0
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Wikimedia Commons
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Photo credit

Photo
Leonard Bernstein NYWTS 1945
By
Fred Palumbo, World Telegram staff photographer
Licence
Public domain
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Wikimedia Commons
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伯恩斯坦

Bó'ēnsītǎn
proper noun #34,748

Meanings

  1. 1 Bernstein (Jewish/German surname)
  2. 2 most famously Leonard Bernstein, American conductor and composer of West Side Story

About Leonard Bernstein

1918–1990 · 音乐家 musician

American conductor and composer who led the New York Philharmonic, wrote the music for West Side Story and taught classical music to a wide TV audience in his Young People's Concerts.

Also called  伦纳德·伯恩斯坦

Examples

HSK 5
《西区故事》的音乐由伯恩斯坦创作。
《 Xīqū Gùshi 》 de yīnyuè yóu Bó'ēnsītǎn chuàngzuò.
The music for West Side Story was composed by Bernstein.
HSK 6
伯恩斯坦是美国著名的指挥家。
Bó'ēnsītǎn shì Měiguó zhùmíng de zhǐhuījiā.
Bernstein was a famous American conductor.

Tips

culture
His Christmas 1989 performances of Beethoven's Ninth in Berlin, weeks after the Wall fell, had 'Ode to Joy' sung as 'Ode to Freedom'. As a surname it also covers Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein and the socialist thinker Eduard Bernstein.
memory
Four syllables: 伯 + 恩 + 斯 + 坦 ≈ 'Bo-en-si-tan' to Bernstein. The 斯坦 ending appears in many German/Eastern-European '-stein' surnames (爱因斯坦 Einstein, 弗兰肯斯坦 Frankenstein) and shouldn't be confused with the 'stan' country suffix (巴基斯坦 Pakistan).

Stroke Order

伯 bó
恩 ēn
斯 sī
坦 tǎn