Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. For a time in the 1960s, when Bernstein was Music Director of the New York Philharmonic, and the first American ...

Leonard Bernstein was a singular American genius. One of the great orchestra conductors of the 20th Century, he was also a composer of hit musicals like West Side Story, as well as symphonies and ...

There's a new movie about Leonard Bernstein featuring Bradley Cooper, who both starred in and directed the film. Leonard Bernstein died in 1990, and if you have come to listen to classical music more ...

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) was the first great American orchestra conductor, leading the New York Philharmonic, to international acclaim. He composed music for symphonies, choral works, Broadway ...

Douglas Tirola's collage portrait lets beloved composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein tell his story in his own words.