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 ...

“How do you make it to Carnegie Hall?” That was the question Secretary Blinken asked the hundreds in attendance from the Perelman Stage at the redoubt of classical music on 57th Street. “Kaddish, ...

A few years ago, during an interview conducted in his Meyerson Symphony Center office, I asked Jaap van Zweden to describe Leonard Bernstein, the iconic American composer/conductor who once encouraged ...

If there’s any orchestra that knows how to celebrate the life and work of Leonard Bernstein, whose centennial arrives next August, it’s the New York Philharmonic. During Bernstein’s time as music ...

That phrase has come back to me throughout my life and I've come to believe that it is applicable to all artists, especially Bernstein himself. There are certain fundamental, existential questions ...

Courtesy photo Guest Conductor Sameer Patel leading symphony during dress rehearsal. In Saturday’s concert performance of Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and Beethoven’s Ninth at the Keefe Center for ...

Major series funding for GREAT PERFORMANCES is provided by The Joseph & Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Arts Fund, the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, Sue … ...

Classical music fans around the world celebrate the 100th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein's birth on Saturday. Orchestras around the country will celebrate Bernstein's centenary all season, with ...

Of all the multifold moods and personalities that course through the music of Leonard Bernstein, there are two traits that stand out as particularly characteristic — his jazzy energy and his tender, ...

Maestro Leonard Bernstein achieved success as a composer for both the concert hall and the Broadway musical stage; his ballet scores were as irresistible to the public as were his popular songs. In an ...

The Pacific Symphony continued Thursday night with music director Carl St.Clair’s 25th anniversary season with a tribute to the conductor’s “teacher, mentor and friend,” Leonard Bernstein. St.Clair ...

On a gloomy damp and cold Sunday afternoon in August 1990, Leonard Bernstein conducted his last concert. Suffering from the late stages of emphysema, he gasped for air while leading an incomparably ...