Leonard Bernstein, a longtime admirer and friend ... and he wasn’t given a major platform until 1954, when he hosted Omnibus, a cultural program that helped shape his public intellectual ...

The program has two segments: (1) "Messiah" (Leonard Bernstein conducts Handel's oratorio), and (2 ... film from Season 3 on the young Abraham Lincoln, made from previous Omnibus episodes). The ...

The program has two segments: (1) "Messiah" (Leonard Bernstein conducts Handel's oratorio), and (2 ... film from Season 3 on the young Abraham Lincoln, made from previous Omnibus episodes). 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 ...

Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, Norman Mailer, Leonard Bernstein. In his new book, “Eminent Jews,” David Denby profiles the rich, ...

EPIC Concerts will mix things up when clarinetist Sergei Vassiliev and pianist Andrew Staupe perform “Clarinet Sonata,” the ...

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 ...

conductor and pianist Leonard Bernstein. The piece was published in 1942. “We play the last pieces of a composer’s life because, generally speaking, they get better,” Staupe said from home i ...

This tired songfest starring Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga does nothing to enhance the master composer's reputation.

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 ...