From the intensity of working with Scott Walker, to the transformative thrill of seeing Joy Division live, via Mahler, Brel and Bowie, former Virgin Prunes frontman Gavin Friday takes Julian Marszalek ...

Leonard Bernstein ... Serge Koussevitzky. Bernstein later became Koussevitzky's conducting assistant. Bernstein was appointed to his first permanent conducting post in 1943, as Assistant Conductor of ...

(JTA) — From his birthplace in Boston to New York, Berlin, South Africa, China and Israel, Leonard Bernstein ... music director of the New York Philharmonic, Bernstein became the first American ...

A towering cultural figure throughout the second half of the 20th century, Leonard Bernstein mediated between different musical ... working alongside Austria’s most illustrious musicians, Vienna's JAM ...

Leonard Bernstein (1918-90 ... In 1943, he made his conducting debut with the New York Philharmonic, filling in for a guest conductor on a few hours' notice. Bernstein’s association with the ...

Leonard – or 'Lenny ... conductor Bruno Walter with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in 1943. The concert was broadcast on the radio and Bernstein became an instant star.

A performance of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony by Leonard Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic at the 1987 BBC Proms had an especially memorable impact. He was the New York Philharmonic's vice ...

Bernstein became Koussevitzky’s protégé, his assistant at Tanglewood, before being made assistant to the legendary Artur Rodzinski at the New York Philharmonic ... ‘Be careful,’ his father warned.