New Yorker writer David Denby has come up with four names to essentially fashion a group biography around. He picked Mel ...

Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer By David Denby Henry Holt, 40o pages, $32 When Lytton Strachey wrote his Eminent ...

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

The legacy of this composer and conductor may not be in his rarely performed works, but in how we think about music itself.

When Lytton Strachey set out to write “Eminent Victorians” in 1918, he sought to enliven the stuffy Victorian conventions of ...

Based on a real-life meeting between two musical greats, the Jewish maestro confronts his adversary, conductor and former ...

EPIC Concerts will mix things up when clarinetist Sergei Vassiliev and pianist Andrew Staupe perform “Clarinet Sonata,” the ...

Get a first listen to the 28-piece Encores! Orchestra rehearsing for Wonderful Town, which features songs like “Ohio” and ...

Leonard Bernstein needs to “see a man about a horse.” After excusing himself from a confrontational meeting with his bête noire, Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan, a genius who joined ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, the Forward’s morning newsletter with all the news and analysis that matters to American Jews each day. Leonard Bernstein needs to ...