The fall of the Berlin Wall signified the beginning of a new society - but who were the first band who performed after this historic event? Find out here.

Leonard Bernstein, pictured in 1974, composed songs such as America and I Feel Pretty for the musical West Side Story A plaque has been unveiled in a West Sussex cathedral to honour one of the ...

Leonard Bernstein, who wrote the music for West Side Story, was commissioned to score the choral Chichester Psalms by the former Dean of Chichester, Walter Hussey, in 1965.

Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, Leonard Bernstein, and Norman Mailer: Four Different Ways To Be Jewish and American All four of David Denby’s eminent Jews were alike in their secularity. If they were not ...

New Yorker writer David Denby has come up with four names to essentially fashion a group biography around. He picked Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, Norman Mailer, and Leonard Bernstein, and the book ...

Bernstein composed Broadway musicals, ballets and symphonies. He conducted Beethoven, Mahler and Stravinsky. A look at why a recent celebrated biopic couldn’t do him justice ...

The recent Leonard Bernstein biopic "Maestro" makes no mention of Minnesota. But maybe it should have. Before the famed conductor and composer led the New York Philharmonic or wrote the music for ...

In his self-directed biographical feature, Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan capture the ups and downs of Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre’s lives.

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Bradley Cooper disappears into Leonard Bernstein in “Maestro,” a surprisingly witty and artful retelling of the conductor-composer’s life. Cocooned in makeup, Cooper is unrecognizable except ...

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) was the first great American orchestra conductor, leading the New York Philharmonic, to international acclaim. He composed music for symphonies, choral works, Broadway ...

The new Netflix movie 'Maestro,' starring Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan, doesn’t shy away from the legendary composer’s real-life bedroom secrets.