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 ...

There aren't many stains on the legacy of consummate conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, best known as the long-running maestro, front and center, for the New York Philharmonic beginning in the ...

Maestro, the new Leonard Bernstein biopic, is not, in fact, a biopic. At least not in any traditional sense. Though this is a movie about a creative genius and the charismatic face of classical music ...

Leonard Bernstein, the acclaimed director and dynamo conductor, is back in the limelight – cast by the recent Netflix biographical film “Maestro,” directed by and starring Bradley Cooper. Immortalized ...

Whenever Leonard Bernstein had to list his profession on a form, he always wrote “musician.” He liked the comprehensiveness of the word, which encompassed composing, performing, teaching, advocating ...

Leonard Bernstein's (right) friend Mark Janas (lower left) shed light on his life in a letter to Bradley Cooper (upper left), who is playing the famous conductor in a biopic movie for Netflix. NY Post ...

As a new documentary portrait about the life of famed composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein arrives at the United Theatre ...

One of the major influencers in Lydia Tár’s career is her mentorship under famed American conductor, Leonard Bernstein. Throughout Todd Field’s faux-biopic, TÁR, the embattled conductor often talks of ...

“Maestro” is a word that resonates across concert music. From the Italian word for master, it is applied most frequently to a respected and established conductor of operas and orchestras but can also ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook The superstar conductor’s hiring is the New York Philharmonic’s attempt to recapture the populist glamour it enjoyed under Leonard ...

Early in his career — before he had a career, really — one of Leonard Bernstein’s mentors suggested that such an obviously Jewish name would never adorn the marquee at Carnegie Hall. Perhaps he could ...