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 ...

Kennedy had been assassinated the year before. Construction began in 1965 and the center formally opened six years later, with a premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass.

The 1971 opening gala of the Kennedy Center was punctuated with a production of “Mass” by famed conductor Leonard Bernstein, featuring several choruses, Alvin Ailey’s dance company ...

More than any president in memory, Donald Trump is attuned to aesthetics. This should scarcely come as a surprise, given that Trump is our first builder-turned-president. In his previous vocation as a ...

WASHINGTON - Heather Dune Macadam still remembers one thought that bubbled inside her as she stepped onto the stage decades ago at the Kennedy Center for a dance competition: "Wow, I made it." Then, ...

These colossal conductors are played by two of Germany's leading actresses: the American-born Helen Schneider as Leonard Bernstein, and Lucca Züchner as Herbert von Karajan. A Nazi Party member ...

contemporary ballet that trades elegant choreography for movement I once described as akin to a “traffic jam,” and a production of Leonard Bernstein’s 1956 satirical operetta Candide in ...

Bradley Cooper was Oscar-nominated for playing Leonard Bernstein in Maestro and it can be revealed that he's turning to a biopic again for his next prestige role: portraying the tough guy lover of ...

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For much of the 20th century, the world of classical conducting was dominated by two figures: Herbert von Karajan and Leonard Bernstein, who fiercely competed with each other throughout their ...

After threatening to dox a social media follower last week, longtime Chicago sports radio host Dan Bernstein is no longer with Audacy’s 670 The Score. The station announced the news during their ...