As Eliot House prepares for extensive renovations, students expressed concern over the plans to remove a historic piano, donated to the house by Leonard Bernstein ’39, over spring break.

Leonard Bernstein needs to “see a man about ... The scene is part of Peter Danish’s new play Last Call, about a chance 1988 encounter between Bernstein and von Karajan at the famed Hotel Sacher in ...

‘One-man bridge’ would be an appropriate description for Bernstein. Like no other musician of his age, he was able to straddle the extremes of the musical world – an intellectual, a composer who wrote ...

Leonard Bernstein – or Lenny as he was affectionately known – was born ‘Louis Bernstein’ in Massachusetts in 1918. His family weren’t particularly musical so it wasn’t until an ...

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’s childhood piano, given to Brandeis in 2002, usually sits sedately in the Slosberg Music Center lobby. For the next couple of years, though, the dark-brown upright on which the ...

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

Based on a real-life meeting between two musical greats, the Jewish maestro confronts his adversary, conductor and former ...

Two legendary conductors go toe-to-toe in "Last Call," a new play by Peter Danish that imagines what happened when Leonard Bernstein and Austria's Herbert von Karajan unexpectedly crossed paths late ...

Leonard Bernstein needs to “see a man about a horse.” After excusing himself from a confrontational meeting with his bête noire, Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan, a genius who joined ...