"It goes wherever it's going" Leonard Bernstein became the most famous conductor in America at the age of 25, on five hours' notice and even less sleep. On Nov. 13, 1943, Bernstein was celebrating the ...

As publicly as circumstances have allowed over the last twenty-nine years—and for the last fourteen of them that has been very publicly indeed—Leonard ... conducts con moto. Attending a ...

Leonard Bernstein was born in Lawrence ... Before graduating in 1939, he made an unofficial conducting debut with his own incidental music to "The Birds," and directed and performed in Marc Blitzstein ...

(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 ...

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.

The real-life Leonard Bernstein’s family’s kindness allowed Bradley Cooper to access hundreds of the conductor’s personal documents. He also shot at numerous locations integral to Leonard ...

Bernstein — who is widely considered the first great American orchestral conductor and who composed music in different genres, from classical to the Broadway style of his “West Side Story ...

Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein raises his baton this week on CBS’s Omnibus to conduct Handel’s Messiah. But a great many of his viewers are certain to be disappointed. They would much ...

Leonard – or 'Lenny' – Bernstein was an American composer, conductor and pianist who had a long and varied musical career. When he was very young, Bernstein first heard someone playing a piano ...

In “Maestro,” Leonard Bernstein (Bradley Cooper) conducts an inspiring rendition of Mahler’s “Resurrection” inside London’s historic Ely Cathedral. The music romanticizes a swirl of ...

Leonard Bernstein (1918-90) was one of the great artists of the 20th century. A renowned composer, conductor and teacher, he served on the Brandeis University Department of Music faculty from 1951-56 ...

As conductor, composer, educator and pianist ... ‘Be careful,’ his father warned. ‘Leonard Bernstein is gay.’ The young man looked up in wonder. ‘Is there nothing that man can’t do?’ he said in ...