The night before his New York Philharmonic debut, Bernstein had his first big break as a composer when the mezzo-soprano Jennie Tourel gave the first public performance of his Five Kid Songs: I Hate Music.
A programme of Bernstein's smaller-scale concert music, including I Hate Music, Arias and Barcarolles, the Prelude, Fugue and Riffs and some of the solo piano pieces dedicated to various friends and called Anniversaries.
