In his speech at the performance, handwritten on stationery from Jerusalem’s Shemesh Oriental Restaurant, Bernstein recalled his exhilaration conducting the Mahler symphony 19 years earlier ...

Particularly notable were his performances of the Mahler symphonies with the New York Philharmonic in the 1960s, sparking a renewed interest in the works of Mahler. Festivals of Bernstein's music have ...

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Leonard Bernstein – or Lenny as he was affectionately known – was born ‘Louis Bernstein’ in Massachusetts in 1918. His family weren’t particularly musical so it wasn’t until an ...

The last of Bernstein's three symphonies is an homage to the Kaddish ... The score is loaded with Mahler-style bombast, jazz licks and an ongoing flirtation with atonality.

At the same time, Bertini’s fervency sometimes gives Leonard Bernstein’s magnetism a run for its money ... but these are nitpicks in face of so much excellence elsewhere. Among other Mahler symphony ...

A Mahler Symphony is surely the last place you’d ... Mahler knew he had a heart condition by this point and Leonard Bernstein (who was a great conductor of Mahler’s work) suggested this ...

Overall, he puts almost two minutes on his 1967 CBS recording (reissued on CD in 1986), the whole symphony ... with Bernstein's tempo for the first movement, then his new account (above all, its ...

In “Maestro,” Leonard Bernstein (Bradley Cooper) conducts an inspiring rendition of Mahler’s “Resurrection ... is more important to him than the symphonies he conducts.

The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra has at last given Knoxville audiences something Mahler to talk about—Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 was the sole work on the weekend’s Masterworks concerts. Judging by ...

All Mahler symphonies are conquests ... are no longer kings like the dictatorial Von Karajan or the enraptured Bernstein in the 1960s; the good ones merge with their players and become, via ...