On the first day of 2018, a dozen cities in Germany, from Augsburg to Wiesbaden, celebrated a new year with concerts that included music by Leonard Bernstein. No matter America’s fraught relationship ...

Leonard Bernstein is best known as the composer of "West Side Story," the immensely popular musical that overshadows most of his other works. But he also wrote three other musicals, a pair of operas, ...

Leonard Bernstein’s career was multifaceted, but two of his primary pursuits stood out the most: composing and conducting. It was a constant tug of war, and it might have been easier if Bernstein had ...

BEACHWOOD, Ohio – The man himself was larger than life, but “Leonard Bernstein: The Power of Music” is the perfect size. Neither comprehensive nor shallow, the new exhibition opening Sept. 25 at the ...

National Museum of American Jewish History celebrates Leonard Bernstein's 100th birthday with an exhibit, "Leonard Bernstein: the Power of Music." (National Museum of American Jewish History) This ...

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 ...

Maestro, the new Leonard Bernstein biopic, is not, in fact, a biopic. At least not in any traditional sense. Though this is a movie about a creative genius and the charismatic face of classical music ...

The greatest film score of 2023 isn’t eligible for an Academy Award. That’s because Leonard Bernstein composed it between 1944 and 1977, multiple pieces that collectively form the musical backdrop of ...

There’s a theory that Walt Whitman’s memory rises in public awareness when his ideal of inclusive democracy sinks from view, that it returns us to our faith that all Americans can become parts of the ...