Leonard Bernstein News

The classical-music world has a fraught relationship with fame. On the one hand, people are always pining for the days when Arturo Toscanini, Leonard Bernstein, and Leontyne Price dominated the airwaves and appeared on the covers of magazines.

Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. Steven Schick will lead the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus in Leonard Bernstein's "Mass" in three concerts at UCSD.

MUSIC SEOUL ARTS CENTER, Concert Hall Thursday: Haydn Philharmonia with Adam Fischer & Mischa Maisky.

West County Winds will perform its winter concert at 8 p.m. Dec. 7 at the Knox Center for the Performing Arts, corner of Castro Road and El Portal Drive on the campus of Contra Costa College.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic's Gustavo Dudamel has said he sees the conductor as more of a collaborator than a leader.

WETA will have finished playing through the three complete Mahler cycles this weekend, but on-line Mahler Month will continue strong until December.

DOHA: Five young talented members of the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra took the audience in a musical journey through the works of famous composers in different periods during a brass band concert at the Waqif Art Centre last night.

It's a sentimental notion, perhaps, to think that a newspaper article could get kids interested in classical music.

Wind Ensemble sketches American musical portraits West County Winds, a community wind ensemble, will perform its winter concert on Monday, December 7, at 8:00 pm in the Knox Center for the Performing Arts Auditorium at Contra Costa College.

Soprano Tracy Dahl sang splendidly at Vancouver Opera's anniversary gala. Vancouver Opera Golden anniversary Concert Leonard Bernstein's overture to Candide opened Vancouver Opera's 50th-anniversary gala with a flash of showmanship.

For anyone wondering what on earth the Overture to Leonard Bernstein's Candide was doing at the start of this bizarre, rag-bag of an evening might I suggest that the inference may have been that "in the best of all possible worlds" Angela Gheorghiu would have been singing more than two arias in the official programme with two more tired old ...

Listen to the famed icon's daughter Jamie Bernstein speak about her father, Leonard Bernstein, with Independent Classical correspondent Edward Seckerson in this podcast specially commissioned for Southbank Centre's The Bernstein Project.

Laurie Klatscher, left, is the Old Lady and Nicole Kaplan is Cunegonde in Quantum Theatre's "Candide." Ambition is something "Candide's" Dr.

The Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra conjured magical moment after magical moment Saturday evening at Memorial Auditorium with a perfectly delivered program of American music.

If you grew up in the '60s or '70s and loved music, you couldn't get away from Leonard Bernstein.

By Alice T. Carter , TRIBUNE-REVIEW THEATER CRITIC Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Last updated: 6:42 pm For Karla Boos and Andres Cladera, the vacant repair shop of a former auto dealership is the best of all possible worlds in which to stage a musical.

Move over, Folklife. Make room, Bumbershoot. Seattle, which never met a festival it couldn't embrace , will get to enjoy "Seattle Celebrates Bernstein" from April through June of next year.

TOKYO - 'Lights, camera, action.' The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is familiar with those words - but not in Japanese.

Even with a roof solidly overhead and four walls protecting from the cold night, Emory University Symphony Orchestra took Saturday night's crowd on an astrological tour of Gustav Holst's The Planets .

Gil Seeley has led the Oregon Repertory Singers for 34 of its 36 years. TrackMoves> 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false omposition professor at Lewis & Clark College, evoked the poem's images of sun and barn, dreams and magic, beginning in a wordless swirl of overlapping pitches and ending on an open chord.