Leonard Bernstein’s third and final symphony, known as the “Kaddish,” was first performed in Israel in 1963 and had its U.S. premiere in Boston in 1964. As conductor and Bernstein protégée Marin Alsop ...

Leonard Bernstein, the young American composer and conductor, last night conducted the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in the first performance of his work “The Age of Anxiety.” The performance was ...

The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra had its eyes fixed on a better future this weekend, with two programs featuring music of hope ringing out in Steinmetz Hall at Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing ...

The North Carolina Symphony is in the mountains for an America 250 concert at Western Carolina University.

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. For a time in the 1960s, when Bernstein was Music Director of the New York Philharmonic, and the first American ...

In 2022, pianist Pete Malinverni released a trio recording, On the Town: Pete Malinverni Plays Leonard Bernstein (Planet Arts Recordings). Just last year, Bradley Cooper's biopic about Leonard ...

How could I know that my son would turn out to be Leonard Bernstein? Regarding the co-protagonist, Felicia Montealegre, there is a reason why Cooper gave top billing to Carey Mulligan, whose ...

Responding to a personal invitation from President Abram Sachar, Leonard Bernstein agreed to serve on the faculty of the Music Department beginning in the spring of 1951. From 1951–1956, Leonard ...