In 1966, the conductor arrived in Vienna with a mission: to restore Gustav Mahler’s place in 20th-century music.

Would it be presumptuous to invite composer Leonard Bernstein to join the Brandeis faculty ... "His consent was given there at Tanglewood, only moments before he went on stage to conduct." Bernstein ...

Leonard Bernstein needs to “see a man about a horse ... and in recent decades graced the stage as Norma Desmond in Sunset ...

Leonard Bernstein was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He took piano lessons as a boy and attended the Garrison and Boston Latin Schools. At Harvard University, he studied with Walter Piston, Edward ...

conductor and pianist Leonard Bernstein. The piece was published in 1942. “We play the last pieces of a composer’s life because, generally speaking, they get better,” Staupe said from home i ...

Based on a real-life meeting between two musical greats, the Jewish maestro confronts his adversary, conductor and former Nazi Herbert von Karajan, in off-Broadway’s “Last Call.” For much of ...

Leonard – or 'Lenny' – Bernstein was an American composer, conductor and pianist who had a long and varied musical career. When he was very young, Bernstein first heard someone playing a piano ...

Watch the original 16mm film by Theodore Cron and Louis Lindauer ’53 on the inaugural Festival of the Arts, which was founded by Leonard Bernstein on the occasion of Brandeis’ first commencement in ...

Leonard – or 'Lenny' – Bernstein was an American composer, conductor and pianist who had a long and varied musical career. When he was very young, Bernstein first heard someone playing a piano ...