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‘Bernstein’s Wall’ Review: How Leonard Bernstein Became a Superstar

Gabby Bernstein’s Tools to Ease Anxiety To Get Better Sleep

In this time of heightened anxiousness,  great quality sleep can confirm additional elusive than at any time. Just one tactic that has been discovered to tranquil the head, decrease anxiety and —when finished just before bedtime — assist us snooze a lot more soundly is meditation.

Thrive World-wide and Audible have enlisted the support of bestselling author, motivational speaker and lifestyle…

Leonard Bernstein’s Daughter Explains Her Famous Father : Deceptive Cadence : NPR

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The composer’s daughter talks frankly about her new memoir

Jamie Bernstein watches her father, Leonard Bernstein, conduct the New York Philharmonic at a rehearsal for one of his Young People’s Concerts, circa fall 1962.

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Bernstein’s Contentious ‘Mass’: The Week in Classical Music

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Listeners! We who cover music for The New York Times do not, I am here to inform you, always agree. For example, some of us love Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass.” Some of us hate it. Well, that’s what makes horse racing, as my grandmother says.

I’ve gotten emails from readers pleased by my negative take on the “Mass” performance this week at Lincoln…

Review: A Stranger, Sexier Version of ‘Peter Pan’? It’s Leonard Bernstein’s

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If there’s traffic on the Taconic State Parkway, head for the second star to the right and fly straight on ’til morning, which should bring you to Bard College’s Fisher Center for the Performing Arts in time for “Peter Pan,” Christopher Alden’s production of J.M. Barrie’s 1904 play, spangled with Leonard Bernstein’s neglected music.

Here we are in Neverland, which is chartreuse, you will…

Is ‘Mass’ Leonard Bernstein’s Best Work, or His Worst?

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The controversy over Leonard Bernstein’s “Mass” began with its premiere in 1971. In his review for The New York Times on Sept. 9 that year, Harold C. Schonberg dismissed the piece as “fashionable kitsch,” “cheap and vulgar.” The same morning, Paul Hume in The Washington Posthailed the work as a “rich amalgamation of the theatrical arts” and “the greatest music Bernstein has ever…