Tag: Leonard Bernstein
Top New York Phil Concerts in the 2026-2027 Season
Gustavo Dudamel begins his tenure as NY Phil's Music Director
Jonathon Heyward: Classical Music Brings People Together
"You don't need the background or the expertise to fall in love with classical music. You simply need the opportunity to be there."
Scott Dunn: Rediscovering Film Music’s Second Golden Age
"They changed the language of scoring from the Wagnerian model to something influenced by modernism and jazz."
Rhapsody in Blue is 100
"Could Ellington and others have done this kind of work earlier if Gershwin hadn't done it? Maybe. But if they wanted to go that direction, they would have done it regardless of what Gershwin did."
R.I.P. Chita Rivera Really Doesn’t Like Talking About Herself
"It's a drag when you take yourself really terribly serious. I don't live in the past, but I'm grateful for the past."
New In Music This Week: November 17th
Seven terrific classical, jazz and vocal albums to enjoy
A Pleasing Recollection of New York in the 1970s
"Our story is about this particular journey. It's a different journey, but the same journey that I think other people have had as well. "
Top 10 of 2021
Happy New Year to everyone. Very soon we'll begin new interviews and highlights for 2022. But before we do, here is my list of...
Alan Titus Remembers Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass”
"I was totally in sync with Lenny's mind. He heard what he wanted through me. So he gave me permission to go deeper into whatever emotional reservoir I had to bring it out."
Director Elkhanah Pulitzer Aims for the Moon
"Early on we decided we didn't want to be soap-boxy and so we wanted to kind of enter into a space that allowed for allegory and some sense of magic or something that almost like Aesop's fable."