There's a theme that appears in much of your work, I say to Maurice on my last visit to Connecticut, and I can only hint at it because it's difficult to formulate or describe. It has something to do w...
WOW! A GALVANIZED Igor Stravinsky reportedly exclaimed after listening to Leonard Bernstein’s astonishing recording of The Rite of Spring—a still-unsurpassed performance that Columbia Records captured...
She also thought it would be helpful to send Bernstein a copy of a book of conversations I had done with the pianist Glenn Gould, who, it turned out, was one of Bernstein’s musical heroes, as well as...
In 1945, the producer Hal Wallis of Paramount Pictures seriously discussed the idea of making a biopic in which Bernstein would have played Tchaikovsky and Greta Garbo would have played Baroness von M...
The only moments I have when I play that are worth anything to me are when I can blissfully ignore the people I am supposed to be entertaining. No me; no silly public to amuse; only the heart and the...