Here is a brief history of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. In 1955, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed the nation build a public auditorium in Washington, D.C as a means to ...

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.

Leonard Bernstein – or Lenny as he was affectionately ... it was Bernstein who was asked to conduct at his funeral mass. When JFK himself was assassinated, Bernstein conducted Mahler’s ...