Hear a unique interview by NPR's Scott Simon with Maestro Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and Jamie Bernstein, eldest daughter of Leonard Bernstein. "In a way, [Leonard] Bernstein lived his life as a symphony."
Yannick Nézet-Séguin describes Leonard Bernstein's sometimes-paradoxical personality and explains how Bernstein "showed all of us the way".
"What better classroom than an interdisciplinary festival of the highest caliber?"
The topic today was Leonard Bernstein, a teacher and mentor of St.Clair’s. The two of us have talked about Bernstein many times over the years, but always in passing and glancing efforts, never in one fell swoop like this.
In 1958, a new type of television programming premiered on CBS, with Leonard Bernstein at the helm.
Thirteen Mahler symphonies. Maestro moves. One day. Welcome to a Bernstein Sunday in New York (part two)!
James Conlon, music director of the Los Angeles Opera, explores Leonard Bernstein's Candide.
I first encountered Maestro Bernstein as an elementary school kid growing up in Metuchen, NJ, in the 1960's.
When Bernstein was offered the New York Philharmonic in 1957, he saw a chance to find the “locus” that he’d been missing. But he knew the cost to his composing would be high.
