A Bernstein Summer

Between Maude Adams in 1905 and Mary Martin in 1954, there was Leonard Bernstein!Adams lives in museums today and Martin on an enchanting TV film. Both…

Leonard Bernstein was famous. Not just famous for a musician. Famous, period. As in household name, as in friends with movie stars, as in appearing…

Leonard Bernstein was there at the beginning of Yo-Yo Ma's career. And in a special way, Yo-Yo Ma was there at the end of Bernstein's life.In 1962,…

It wasn't as if Leonard Bernstein was looking for work.By 1953, at the age of 35, Bernstein had already created two Broadway hits and had been on top of…

The year is 1941. War is raging in Europe.Here on the home front, Leonard Bernstein is 23 years old, a student at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music…

On Oct. 22, 1983, the Metropolitan Opera threw an all-day bash celebrating its 100th birthday.Singers active and retired, and some in between, were…

Conducting is both art and scienceAccording to Robert Krulwich, Leonard Bernstein's conducting can be analyzed scientifically. Krulwich is a Radiolab…

Conducting is both art and scienceAccording to Robert Krulwich, Leonard Bernstein's conducting can be analyzed scientifically. Krulwich is a Radiolab…

For more than a decade, Leonard Bernstein brought young people to classical music through his televised Young People's Concerts with the New York…

There's Leonard Bernstein, the composer of all that splashy, jazzy music for West Side Story. There’s Leonard Bernstein, the showy — some might say…