As Broadway prepares to reckon with the effect of McCarthyism on journalism in the new drama, Good Night and Good Luck, go ...
Last week No. 1 Associate Robert Saudek quietly released the news that Omnibus will return to the air next season. In the works meanwhile: five Leonard Bernstein-New York Philharmonic programs ...
Based on a real-life meeting between two musical greats, the Jewish maestro confronts his adversary, conductor and former ...
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 ...
Is "Last Call" a masterpiece? No. But it does provide some solid acting, fiery exchanges and a surprise or two.
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 ...
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 the Nazi ...
By Ash Wu Leonard S. Polonsky, a philanthropist who funded the arts and helped make significant historical artifacts and documents available to the public, including Sir Isaac Newton’s early ...
Orin O’Brien was hired under the baton of Leonard Bernstein as the first woman to play full-time in the New York Philharmonic. Her story has now been told in an Oscar-winning documentary. But she was ...