(JTA) — From his birthplace in Boston to New York, Berlin, South Africa, China and Israel, Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), the larger-than-life conductor, pianist, composer, educator and bon ...

Leonard Bernstein was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He took piano lessons as a boy and attended the Garrison and Boston Latin Schools. At Harvard University, he studied with Walter Piston, Edward ...

Musical director Craig Bond says "West Side Story" is St. Helena Drama's most musically complex undertaking yet.

Granted, many in attendance were avowed fans of Bernstein, Cooper and classical music. Still, most were well read on the details of the nose controversy and decidedly over it. “I thought it was ...

Leonard Bernstein – or Lenny as he was affectionately ... At the age of 25 he stepped in to conduct the New York Philharmonic with no rehearsal, replacing an ill Bruno Walter.

In Maestro Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre’s ... He had to step in to conduct the orchestra without any rehearsal for that afternoon’s performance. However, without much worry ...

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.

On January 29, 2025, at 8:00PM, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz (January 27, 1945), Carnegie Hall will present a special performance of Leonard Bernstein's ...

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 ...