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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 – 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 ...

Leonard Bernstein – or Lenny as he was affectionately ... At the age of 25 he stepped in to conduct the New York Philharmonic with no rehearsal, replacing an ill Bruno Walter.

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 ...