In 1966, the conductor arrived in Vienna with a mission: to restore Gustav Mahler’s place in 20th-century music.

The Oscar-winning actress Jessica Chastain is endeavoring once more to sell off her exquisite Manhattan co-op across from ...

The singing was generally good, tenor Allen delivering some of the few emotionally touching moments, and soprano Kealani hitting spectacular high notes. As the vain, snobbish Maximillian, Nathan ...

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.

From 1951 – 1956, Leonard Bernstein offered courses on modern music, symphony, opera and composition ... an acclaimed American composer and conductor, a Brandeis faculty member, and a supporter of the ...

Bernstein’s most famous music today is the unforgettable ... as part of Total Immersion: Leonard Bernstein on 27 January). Bernstein had met the great American composer Aaron Copland in 1937 ...

The legacy of this composer and conductor may not be in his rarely performed works, but in how we think about music itself.

Glickstein was joined in 1928 by a European music director who would profoundly influence Leonard Bernstein's life. This was Solomon Gregory Braslavsky (1887-1975), the first composer and student of ...

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 ...

For much of the 20th century, the world of classical conducting was dominated by two figures: Herbert von Karajan and Leonard ... music versus interpreting it (Bernstein was also a composer ...

His appetite for music and his zest for life, his passion to share his enthusiasms, his versatility and boundless energy leave one breathless. As conductor, composer ... to study with Bernstein. ‘Be ...