Georgina Dobree (clarinet)
Ernest Lush (piano)
Leonard Bernstein is the most versatile of the younger American composers: he has written two symphonies, ballet music, film scores, and Broadway musicals (including West Side Story). In addition he is at present chief conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. His Clarinet Sonata is an early work, written in 1942, when he was twenty-four.