Based on a real-life meeting between two musical greats, the Jewish maestro confronts his adversary, conductor and former ...

Leonard Bernstein needs to “see a man about a horse.” After excusing himself from a confrontational meeting with his bête noire, Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan, a genius who joined the Nazi ...

These colossal conductors are played by two of Germany's leading actresses: the American-born Helen Schneider as Leonard Bernstein, and Lucca Züchner as Herbert von Karajan. A Nazi Party member ...

EPIC Concerts, a Colorado Springs chamber music series, will feature clarinetist Sergei Vassiliev and pianist Andrew Staupe ...

Maestro' is the movie — and man — on many people's lips, thanks to the awards buzz around Bradley Cooper's biopic of the legendary American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein.

(JTA) — From his birthplace in Boston to New York, Berlin, South Africa, China and Israel, Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), the larger-than-life conductor, pianist, composer, educator and bon ...

Orin O’Brien was hired under the baton of Leonard Bernstein as the first woman to play full-time in the New York Philharmonic. Her story has now been told in an Oscar-winning documentary. But she was ...

For much of the 20th century, the world of classical conducting was dominated by two figures: Herbert von Karajan and Leonard Bernstein, who fiercely competed with each other throughout their ...