Infinite as Bernstein’s love for music is, he has needed, to sustain him in the breakneck romance, both the gifts of a genius—“inexplicable, unanalyzable, and as it were inspired,” Webster ...

In addition to his extraordinary musical gifts, his youth, good looks and charismatic personality made him a household name, virtually the face of classical music in America. I first met Leonard ...

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.

Thousands of events are featured as a part of #Bernsteinat100, including “Leonard Bernstein: The Power of Music,” an exhibit that recently opened at the National Museum of American Jewish ...

Leonard Bernstein was born in ... In 1945, he was appointed Music Director of the New York City Symphony Orchestra, a post he held until 1947. After Serge Koussevitzky died in 1951, Bernstein headed ...

Granted, many in attendance were avowed fans of Bernstein, Cooper and classical music. Still, most were well read on the details of the nose controversy and decidedly over it. “I thought it was ...

Leonard – or 'Lenny' – Bernstein ... guaranteed to make you want to move… which is exactly what Bernstein wanted. For him, music wasn't about writing or reading notes on a page, but instead ...

A renowned composer, conductor and teacher, he served on the Brandeis University Department of Music ... Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts, April 15-22, 2018. “I sometimes think that man ...

‘One-man bridge’ would be an appropriate description for Bernstein. Like no other musician of his age, he was able to straddle the extremes of the musical world – an intellectual, a composer who wrote ...

Leonard – or 'Lenny' – Bernstein ... guaranteed to make you want to move… which is exactly what Bernstein wanted. For him, music wasn't about writing or reading notes on a page, but instead ...