Leonard Bernstein

He teamed up with Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents and Jerome Robbins, three other gay Jewish men, on “West Side Story.” In addition to Prince, he created shows with Jule Styne, John Weidman, James Lapine and Larry Gelbart.

Monge was the artistic collaborator and consultant on Steven Spielberg’s 2021 film adaptation. This American masterpiece, with a book by Arthur Laurents (Gypsy), music by Leonard Bernstein (On the Town) and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim (Follies), will be co-directed in a new production reuniting directors Marianne Elliott and Miranda Cromwell after their award-winning West End and Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman.

Born in North Carolina, David Charles Abell studied viola, trumpet, piano, organ, and composition, turning his attention to conducting at age 14. He subsequently studied with Leonard Bernstein and Nadia Boulanger, earning degrees from Yale University and The Juilliard School. He has worked with distinguished artists including Bryn Terfel, Simon Keenlyside, Diana Damrau, Stephen Hough, Judi Dench, Emma Thompson, Lea Salonga, Idina Menzel, Heather Headley, Petula Clark, Josh Groban, Matthew Morrison, Michael Ball, and Michael Feinstein. The many international orchestras he has conducted include the London Symphony, BBC Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, Wiener Symphoniker, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de Lyon, Prague Philharmonia, Atlanta Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Iceland Symphony, and Boston Pops. Abell’s television and radio appearances encompass a wide repertoire, from Johann Strauss (with the period-instrument Wiener Akademie) to the launch of the Ten Pieces classical music education project with the BBC Concert Orchestra. Three of his five appearances at the BBC Proms were televised: the Richard Rodgers Centenary, Sondheim at 80, and the War Horse Prom in 2014. His particular affinity with the operatic repertoire has attracted repeat engagements with Cincinnati Opera and Lyric Opera of Kansas City as well as guest appearances with Opera Philadelphia, Michigan Opera Theatre, Atlanta Opera, Hawaii Opera Theatre, Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, and many others. Considered one of the top international conductors of musical theatre, he led the French premieres of four Stephen Sondheim musicals and conducted the Les Misérables tenth and twenty-fifth-anniversary concerts. For the centennial of his mentor Leonard Bernstein, Abell conducted Songfest and the Serenade with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, West Side Story at Glimmerglass and Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and three concerts of Bernstein’s theater music with the Philly POPS. Recordings include excerpts from La Bohème and Madama Butterfly, Something’s Gotta Give (with Simon Keenlyside), Jonathan Dove’s opera Tobias and the Angel, and complete recordings of Miss Saigon and Man of La Mancha. Forever (with soprano Diana Damrau).

Truly a world-class musician and a regular guest at most major International Festivals, he has collaborated with such conductors as Leonard Bernstein, Carlo Maria Giulini, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Daniel Barenboim, James Levine, Charles Dutoit, Yuri Temirkanov, Mariss Jansons, Valery Gergiev, Kirill Petrenko, Paavo Järvi and Gustavo Dudamel.

As a freelance trombonist he played for Music Man, Camelot and other Broadway musicals. He played in Radio City Music Hall performances, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic. He played with famed musicians including Robert Preston, Julie Andrews and Barbra Streisand, and under the batons of Leopold Stokowski, Leonard Bernstein and other world-famous conductors.

However, back in the day, a lot of movie musicals originally came from the stage first, which meant that all of the great songs from the likes of Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, and Andrew Lloyd Webber were already baked into these adaptations. We get some of the greatest musical numbers of all time with West Side Story.

The Harvard songwriters will include Nell Benjamin (Legally Blonde, Mean Girls), Leonard Bernstein (On the Town, Wonderful Town, Candide, West Side Story), Alan Jay Lerner (Brigadoon, My Fair Lady, Camelot), and Bonnie Raitt (fifteen-time Grammy Award winner).

LUNDEN: And prove, he did. As a teenager, Tilson Thomas worked with Igor Stravinsky and Aaron Copland. He majored in music at USC, trained as a conductor at Tanglewood, was mentored by Leonard Bernstein. He took a job with the Boston Symphony Orchestra as an assistant conductor. But when its music director became ill, MTT got his big break. He took over for a season conducting standard orchestral repertoire, but he also programmed contemporary atonal music, as he told the BBC.

Mahler's music was first heard at Carnegie Hall in 1904 when Walter Damrosch led the New York Symphony Orchestra in the US premiere of Symphony No. 4. The composer himself conducted more than 70 performances at the Hall, including during his tenure as the New York Philharmonic's music director. While Mahler's music continued to be known among musicians and audiences, its widespread acceptance and central place in the orchestral repertoire emerged primarily in the mid-20th century with a major resurgence led by conductors such as Leonard Bernstein and Pierre Boulez, building on groundwork laid by earlier champions. Along with Dimitri Mitropoulos and Bruno Walter, Bernstein led the New York Philharmonic in a Mahler festival at Carnegie Hall in 1960, commemorating the 100th anniversary of Mahler's birth and the 50th anniversary of his first season as music director of the New York Philharmonic. Most recently, the Staatskapelle Berlin, led by Daniel Barenboim and Pierre Boulez, performed the symphonies in sequence at the Hall in 2009.

Okay, there are a lot of plays, creatives and cast behind them to get through, so these are the main ones you need to know. In terms of the texts, the biggest billings are a major revival of Leonard Bernstein and Steven Sondheim's West Side Story which will be taking the winter 2027 slot. Marianne Elliott - the director behind the (slightly cursed chaotic) Sunday in the Park with George musical revival - will be taking on direction for the production alongside Miranda Cromwell. The two have worked together previously on a hit production of Death of a Salesman at the Young Vic.

Mezzo-soprano Kathryn Leemhuis joins the orchestra for three lesser-known songs by three iconic American composers: Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin. Copland's 'Long Time Ago' comes from a set of five Old American Songs, published in 1950 and premiered the same year by the composer Benjamin Britten on piano and his partner Peter Pears singing. Bernstein's 'Take Care of this House' comes from his unsuccessful musical, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, which is described in the program note as documenting a timely theme: 'American presidents' tepid commitments to establishing fair and equal civil rights for people of every race.' Gershwin's 'O Land of Mine, America' was the composer's entry for a national anthem competition in 1919. It didn't win, but it channels the optimism of immigrants coming to America and the anticipated opportunities it offered.

WindSync is a young group featuring Garrett Hudson on flute, Emily Tsai on oboe, Julian Hernandez on clarinet, Kara LaMoure on Bassoon and Anni Hochhalter on French horn. They play from memory and perform a dynamic concert by including elements of staging and choreography in their performances. On Saturday, WindSync fans can expect to hear a wide-ranging repertoire, including an Offenbach overture, a suite from Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet” ballet score, and, speaking of love, selections from another Shakespeare inspired romance — Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story.”

Audra McDonald takes the stage for two songs: a medley of Leonard Bernstein's “Somewhere” from West Side Story and “Some Other Time” from On the Town, and George Gershwin's “He Loves and She Loves” from Funny Face. Jamie Bernstein, Leonard Bernstein's eldest daughter and a friend of Tilson Thomas's, will introduce the first movement of Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, which closes out the first half of the program, speaking about her family's close relationships with MTT.

Throughout this Proms season there have been commemorations of the 250th anniversary of the USA’s Declaration of Independence, resulting in multiple performances of “Fanfare for the Common Man”, but thankfully for the final concert Aaron Copland has been shelved. The overture to Leonard Bernstein’s Candide opened the show, setting things off on the right note, and another musical theatre number in Frank Loesser’s “Sit Down, You’re Rocking the Boat” from Guys and Dolls rounded off the regular programming; sandwiched in the middle was a compelling performance of Samuel Barber’s “Piano Concerto” from the effervescent Yuja Wang.

During his celebrated career, Smith performed under many of the world’s most renowned conductors, including Zubin Mehta, Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Masur, Lorin Maazel, and Alan Gilbert. He appeared as soloist in numerous world premieres and major concerto performances with the New York Philharmonic and orchestras around the globe.

Mr. Coleman began his artistic career with the Minneapolis Symphony under Antal Dorati. Returning to New York, Mr. Coleman worked with the Radio City Music Hall Orchestra. He then served with the New York Philharmonic for 10 years during Leonard Bernstein’s tenure. After resigning from his position with the Philharmonic, he continued to participate, by invitation, in the Philharmonic’s annual tours to Russia, New Zealand, and Australia working as a substitute cellist under Zubin Mehta and Kurt Mazur. During his long musical career, Mr. Coleman had the privilege of serving with the American Symphony Orchestra under Leopold Stokovsky. He also served for a period of time with the New York City Opera.

Classical Cool is the Village Trip festival's annual concert for children and families. Hosted by Nina Bernstein Simmons, the program features excerpts from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story, and his 'Ode to Freedom' from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Classical Cool also features premières by Shoko Suzuki, and William Kentner Anderson. Community African drummers under Amos Gabia and local choral ensembles join The Village Trip Festival Orchestra, conducted by Garrett Keast of the Berlin American Academy of Music. Featured soloists include the winner of TVT's Concerto Competition, and soprano Curtlyn Ifill.

Sunday, October 4 at 4 pm: Classical Cool: A Concert for Kids and Families, St Mark's in the Bowery (131 E 10th St, Manhattan). Nina Bernstein hosts this program for all ages, featuring The Village Trip Festival Orchestra. The concert features excerpts from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story, and 'Ode to Joy' from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Also: Community African drummers, local choruses, the winner of the festival's concerto competition, and more.

The concert culminates in Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, an orchestral tour de force drawn from his landmark Broadway score. Propulsive dance rhythms, jazz influences, soaring melodies and moments of aching tenderness come together in music that has become an enduring part of the American musical landscape.

'Someone to Watch Over Me' follows the album's first single, 'Summertime,' featuring GRAMMY Award winner Jon Batiste. Together, the two recordings offer an early look at Perlman's approach to The Way We Were: My American Songbook, a collection of melodies that have remained close to his heart throughout his life, with fresh interpretations of enduring works by George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Stephen Sondheim, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, Leonard Bernstein and others.

The second half will feature Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story Symphonic Dances, before the concert concludes with Arturo Márquez’s Danzón No. 2.

The season will conclude on May 28, 2027, with pianist Bruce Liu. Conducted by Samy Rachid, the finale will feature Beethoven’s “Piano Concerto No. 4” and the “Symphonic Dances” from Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story.”

Another intriguing premise — a college music student discovers a long-lost Mozart sketch and sets out to finish the piece and give its world premiere — sets the stage for yet another new novel, The Lost Mozart by David K. Israel. Chaucer’s Books hosts the author, an accomplished composer whose first job out of college was working as an editor for Leonard Bernstein, producing and publishing definitive editions of West Side Story, On the Town, and Mass, for a book talk and signing on Thursday, September 24, at 6 p.m. Click here for the scoop.

Norman Krieger is Dean Charles H. Webb Chair in Music and professor of music in piano at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, having previously served as professor at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music. A native of Los Angeles, he is one of the most acclaimed pianists of his generation and is highly regarded as an artist of depth, sensitivity, and virtuosic flair. Krieger has collaborated with such notable conductors as Myung-Whun Chung, Donald Runnicles, Leonard Slatkin, and Michael Tilson Thomas. He regularly appears with the major orchestras of North America, among them the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Chicago Symphony. He has performed throughout Europe, Asia, and South America. In 2014, he recorded the Brahms Sonata Op. 1 and the Piano Concerto No. 2 with the London Symphony Orchestra under Philip Ryan Mann (Decca). In recital, Krieger has appeared throughout the United States, Europe, Mexico, and Asia. Chamber music collaborations have included appearances with Sheri Greenawald, Paul Huang, Sarah Chang, Pamela Frank, and the Tokyo String Quartet, among many others. His debut at New York City’s prestigious Carnegie Hall and Mostly Mozart Festival earned him an invitation to Lincoln Center’s Great Performers Series, and he was Gold Medal Winner of the first Palm Beach Invitational Piano Competition. Krieger began his studies with Esther Lipton. At age 15, he became a full-scholarship student of Adele Marcus at The Juilliard School, where he earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Subsequently, he studied with Alfred Brendel and Maria Curcio in London and earned an Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory, where he worked with Russell Sherman. A champion of contemporary music, he features among his repertoire the music of such composers as John Adams, Leonard Bernstein, and John Corigliano. Krieger is the founding artistic director of The Prince Albert Music Festival in Hawaii. Since 2008, he has served on the summer faculty at the Brevard Music Festival in North Carolina.

Jun Märkl is a highly respected interpreter of the core German repertory, and has become known for his refined and idiomatic explorations of the French Impressionists. He serves as music director of the Taiwan Philharmonic (National Symphony Orchestra), music director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and chief conductor of the Residentie Orkest The Hague, Netherlands. He also serves as principal guest conductor of the Oregon Symphony. Märkl’s expertise in the world of opera and long historical relationships with the state operas of Vienna, Berlin, Munich, the Semperoper Dresden, the Metropolitan Opera of New York, San Francisco Opera, and New National Theatre in Tokyo have been complemented over the past many decades by his orchestral music directorships of the Orchestre National de Lyon, the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Basque National Orchestra, and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. Märkl regularly guest conducts the leading orchestras of North America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe and has conducted many of the world’s most prestigious orchestras including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Boston Symphony, the Bavarian Radio Symphony, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, NHK Tokyo, and many others. In the 25-26 season, he returned to the Auckland Philharmonic and Essen Orchestra. He also made his debut with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and recorded with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Märkl also has an extensive discography of more than 60 recordings. In recognition of his achievements in France, he was honored in 2012 with the title of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He studied in Munich with Sergiu Celibidache, at Tanglewood with Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa. Märkl is highly dedicated to working with young musicians: for many years, he worked as principal conductor at the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo and the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado. He teaches as a guest professor at the Kunitachi College of Music, Tokyo, and in 2023, he founded the National Symphony Youth Orchestra of Taiwan.

At 99, Herbert Blomstedt is one of the foremost conductors of our time. Born in Springfield Massachusetts to Swedish parents, Blomstedt grew up in Sweden and Finland and received his musical training in Stockholm, Uppsala, New York, Basel and Tanglewood, working with influential musicians as Igor Markevitch, Jean Morel, Leonard Bernstein and Paul Sacher. His Seventh-day Adventist faith is central to his approach to life and music making, much admired for its combination intellectual rigor with emotional warmth, revealing the structural logic and expressive depth inherent within the music itself. He has held major appointments with leading orchestras including the Oslo Philharmonic, the Danish Radio Symphony, the Swedish Radio Symphony, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the San Francisco Symphony, the NDR Symphony and the Gewandhaus Orchestras.

Klein told Intermezzo host Leora Zeitlin in this interview that there were numerous composers to choose from but he settled on music by Gershwin, Copland, John Williams, and Leonard Bernstein, in addition to an arrangement by Calvin H. Custer of several traditional American folksongs.

Directed by Molly O’Brien, ‘The Only Girl in the Orchestra’ celebrates the life of double bassist Orin O’Brien, the first woman to become a full-time member of the New York Philharmonic, hired by world-renowned conductor Leonard Bernstein in 1966. In the film, Molly O’Brien, Orin’s niece, provides a succinct view of the musician’s life, career, and philosophy by bringing together conversations between Orin and her students, archival photographs, and more. You can watch the beautiful documentary film right here.

“It has been a long time since any cultural figure arrived in New York on such a wave of high expectations,” said Adam Nagourney in The New York Times. But conductor Gustavo Dudamel, having just completed a spectacularly successful 17-year run in Los Angeles, officially stepped into the role of music and artistic director of the storied New York Philharmonic early this month, and lovers of classical music are hoping that the former wunderkind can use his new perch to revive the genre as a force in American popular culture. At 45, Dudamel “might be the most famous conductor alive today,” said Joshua Barone, also in the Times, and he achieved that notoriety by bringing a democratic touch to his chosen field not seen since Leonard Bernstein led the New York Philharmonic. “This is not a job,” said Dudamel on his first full day occupying Bernstein’s old post. “It is a mission.”

Patti LuPone will star as the Old Lady in Leonard Bernstein's Candide. Resident Conductor Lina González-Granados will lead the production, which features songs including “Glitter and Be Gay” and “Make Our Garden Grow.”

The musical scope of the evening bridges centuries and styles. The first half leans into orchestral grandeur, opening with Leonard Bernstein’s sparkling Candide Overture, John Foulds’ Keltic Suite – Lament, and Antonín Dvořák’s Prince’s Aria from Rusalka. Audiences will also experience the world premiere of Samuel Barber’s Piano Concerto, spotlighting superstar pianist Yuja Wang, alongside Smetana’s Má vlast – Vltava and Samy Moussa’s Dithyramb.

And now the new era of the New York Philharmonic has begun with ample attention on music and musicians of Latin America. The Phil's new maestro, Gustavo Dudamel promises high octane performances, reminding many of Leonard Bernstein. Who knows? That may be so . . .

The program brings together American hymns and familiar melodies with poetry by Langston Hughes and music by Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Barber, and others. Dr. C. Michael Porter directs the chamber ensemble, whose members include singers and choral educators from across the Treasure Valley.

Aaron Copland (arr. Leonard Bernstein): El Salón México

As for Simon de Pury, he expresses no hesitation regarding the comparisons to Mick Jagger, recalling how writer Bob Colacello introduced him in this manner long ago. “Other monikers mentioned ‘Leonard Bernstein or [conductor] Herbert von Karajan of the auction world,’ but it’s the Mick Jagger one that stuck,” he reflects with a hint of pride. His passion for the Rolling Stones is unmistakable, yet he emphasizes that young auctioneers should not attempt to mimic others but rather embrace their unique styles. He often cites Peter Wilson, Sotheby’s chairman from 1958 to 1980, as an example of a vastly different auctioneer whose style is one he admires.

“I’m honored to be part of this very special season,” Roe adds, “and we’ve prepared a diverse program that represents the arc of the human experience.” Diverse indeed. That October 11 program includes a set of uniquely interpreted pieces from Brahms, Stravinsky, Star Wars film composer John Williams, Leonard Bernstein and…rock band Radiohead.

Originally created in the 1970s, Side by Side by Sondheim celebrates the music and lyrics of Sondheim alongside work he created with collaborators including Leonard Bernstein, Mary Rodgers, Richard Rodgers and Jule Styne.

KiMani Bridges is a composer and flutist from Louisville, Kentucky, and a Luna Lab alumna. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Composition from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University and is currently pursuing a Master's at The Juilliard School on a Kovner Fellowship. Her works have been commissioned and performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and the Louisville Symphony Orchestra, and she is a recipient of the G. Schirmer Prize and the Leonard Bernstein Award. The program features her "Pith" for solo piano.

Her extensive Broadway career also includes her Tony Award-winning performance as Dorothy Brock in the hit revival of 42nd Street, in addition to leading roles in On the Twentieth Century, Oklahoma!, Camelot, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, Steel Magnolias, the revival of Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit, and Dinner at Eight, for which she received both Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations. She received an Obie Award and a Drama Desk nomination for her performance in Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads. Concert appearances include the concert version of the opera The Grapes of Wrath at Carnegie Hall, the San Francisco Symphony’s tribute to Leonard Bernstein, the Boston Pops’ concert version of A Little Night Music, and PBS concerts Gershwin at 100: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall and The Rodgers & Hart Story: Thou Swell, Thou Witty.

Pike Opera’s seventh annual concert was held on Sunday, August 30 in Ann Street Park, and Jim Pedranti, chairman of their board, said, “This was the best one yet.” His reason was that the selection of music for this concert was the most relatable. In addition to the classical arias like Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” or Bizet’s “Pres des remparts de Seville from Carmen,” these five accomplished singers from the Academy of Vocal Arts (AVA) in Philadelphia sang Leonard Bernstein’s “Maria,” George Gershwin’s “Summertime” from Porgy and Bess, and Rogers and Hammerstein’s “You’ll ever Walk Alone.”

Program: Johann Sebastian Bach — Brandenburg Concerto No. 6; Antonio Vivaldi — Longe mala, umbrae, terrores, RV 629; William Grant Still — Lyric for Strings; George Frideric Handel — Aria 'Ombra mai fu' from Serse; Carlos Simon — The After Party! [European Premiere]; George Gershwin — Lullaby; George Gershwin — Embraceable You; Duke Ellington — It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing); Frank Sinatra — Fly Me to the Moon; Leonard Bernstein — Waltz; Spiritual — Over My Head / Amazing Grace. John Holiday, voice. Candida Thompson, lead & violin. Amsterdam Sinfonietta.

One of New York's most popular music destinations, Songbook Sundays is in its fifth year, after premiering spring 2022 with Got Gershwin followed by celebrations of Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, Rodgers and Hart, Lerner and Loewe, Fats Waller, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Cy Coleman, Frank Loesser, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael, Jule Styne, Jimmy Van Heusen, Leonard Bernstein and Dorothy Fields. It will continue December 6th with a celebration of Irving Berlin. All shows are at 5pm and 7:30pm, and feature top vocal talent from Broadway, cabaret and jazz, with a diverse mix of young artists and veteran stars.

The centre, which is also a memorial to the assassinated Kennedy, opened in 1971 with the world premiere of Leonard Bernstein's requiem mass for Kennedy. It has over the decades been home to the Washington National Opera and the National Symphony Orchestra and hosted such performers as Mikhail Baryshnikov and Wynton Marsalis. It also hosts the annual Kennedy Center Honors, recognising the lifetime of achievement of leading artists.

Pianist Jonathan Biss is recognized globally for his impeccable taste and formidable technique. He has appeared as a soloist with the foremost ensembles of the world, including the Los Angeles and New York Philharmonics, the Boston Symphony, and the Royal Concertgebouw. Biss is particularly renowned for his deep engagement with the music of Beethoven. An alum of the Evnin Rising Stars program, he has a rich history with Caramoor, performing many times over the years and last appearing with the Orchestra of St. Luke's in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 during the 2019 Summer Season. He has recorded the complete piano sonatas of the composer, created a widely viewed Coursera lecture series, spearheaded the Beethoven/5 commissioning project, and is the author of the acclaimed book Unquiet: My Life with Beethoven. Beyond his extensive touring and advocacy for newly commissioned works, Biss serves as the Co-Artistic Director of the Marlboro Music School and Festival. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Times and the recipient of numerous prestigious honors, including the Leonard Bernstein Award, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and a Gilmore Young Artist Award. At Caramoor on October 25, he will present his program Words Fail! featuring selections from Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words, Janáček's “Words Fail!” from On the Overgrown Path, Kurtág's “Quiet talk with the Devil” and “Silence” from Játékok, Amy Beth Kirsten's (speak to me), and Schumann's Variations on an Original Theme and Fantasy in C Major, Op. 17.

Sutton Concert Series: OU Symphony Orchestra celebrates the incredible variety of American music! Concert program includes works by Leonard Bernstein - "Glitter and Be Gay", Louis Moreau Gottschalk - Symphony No. 1, "A Night in the Tropics," and Florence Price - "Symphony No. 3."

Now 45, Dudamel took over as music and artistic director last week after 17 celebrated seasons leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He is the 27th man to head the New York orchestra, following luminaries that included Gustav Mahler, Willem Mengelberg, Bruno Walter, Leonard Bernstein and Pierre Boulez.

In 2020, Felder created Live from Florence, An Arts Broadcasting Company, which has produced more than 18 theatrical films to date. They include Noble Genius, Chopin and Liszt; The Assembly; Violetta, the story of Verdi’s La Traviata; Dante and Beatrice; Mozart and Figaro in Vienna; Nicholas, Anna & Sergei, the story of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Puccini; Before Fiddler, a musical story about writer Sholem Aleichem; Great American Songs and the Stories Behind Them; Leonard Bernstein and the Israel Philharmonic, a documentary; and Musical Tales in the Venetian Jewish Ghetto. Two seasons of programming are currently available at www.hersheyfelder.net.

Of those buildings, the Dakota stands as a high point of antiquated luxury and occupies a particularly vast slice of New York City cultural lore. It’s where Tchaikovsky was entertained during his tour of the US in 1891. Nureyev slept there in a flamboyant Elizabethan bed, and, later, Lauren Bacall could be found chatting with Albert Maysles or Leonard Bernstein in their shared courtyard. The building, adorned with cast-iron dragons and a sentry, has many macabre associations: In Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby, Mia Farrow was assailed there by a Satanic cult; John Lennon was shot outside on December 8th, 1980; and Boris Karloff, who played Frankenstein, lived there in the 1930s.

Two other items worthy of mention are an original strike of the famed 1898 Basel Second Zionist Congress medal and a 1957 plaque given by the Israel Defense forces to the famed conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein. Also being offered are a number of Israel off-metal patterns and test strikes of state medals.

Schiller, who played for many years under Leonard Bernstein, appears to have caught some of the legendary conductor’s infectious enthusiasm for explaining music. Readers of this book will likely find themselves inspired by Schiller’s love of his subject to rush out and buy a ticket to the symphony immediately.

Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti and Michael Ching's Speed Dating Tonight! will comprise a double bill February 19 at 7 p.m. and February 21 at 3 p.m. at the Wang Opera Center. Tebar will conduct the Naples Festival Orchestra. Both one-act operas will be sung in English with English surtitles.

The series opens on Sunday, October 25, with two performances celebrating America250. At 3 p.m., America 250: Harmony Across Cultures features the NJYS Youth Symphony under the direction of Music Director & Conductor Helen H. Cha-Pyo alongside internationally acclaimed harpist Edmar Castañeda, mezzo-soprano Ema Mitrović, Paterson's Inner City Dance Ensemble, and the Korean Traditional Music and Dance Center. Together, these artists explore the many cultural traditions that have shaped America's musical landscape through works by Leonard Bernstein, Reena Esmail, Charles Ives, Raúl Abbad, John Chance Barnes, and Edmar Castaneda.

The Bozeman Symphony launches its 59th concert season, Music that Moves Us . . . Near and Far, on Sept. 12–13 with Revolution & Revelry: Shostakovich 5, an exhilarating program that journeys from the mischievous wit of Leonard Bernstein to the lyrical brilliance of Franz Liszt and the emotional power of Dmitri Shostakovich.

The NMPhil’s season opens with a vibrant blend of contemporary energy and timeless masterworks. Jessie Montgomery’s Starburst sets an exhilarating tone with its sparkling textures and propulsive rhythms. Leonard Bernstein’s lyrical and evocative Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium) follows, offering a captivating musical reflection on love and human connection, inspired by Plato’s philosophical dialogue and performed by violin virtuoso Paul Huang. The program concludes with Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World,” a powerful and deeply moving work shaped by the composer’s time in America, filled with unforgettable melodies and richly colored orchestration.

- Andy Teirstein (Music) - A student of Leonard Bernstein who has shared concert stages with Paul Simon and Pete Seeger, Teirstein's compositions have been hailed by The New York Times and The Village Voice as "magical" and "ingenious."

As part of the Masterworks Series, Jamie Bernstein, daughter of Leonard Bernstein, will guide a program centered on marriage and partnership, featuring Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti alongside music by Strauss, Saint-Saëns, and Mendelssohn. Performances are scheduled for Friday, October 23 and Sunday, October 25. Tickets are available at https://my.austinsymphony.org/overview/1226.

During that time, he bolstered the school’s reputation from nationally respected to internationally revered, making visionary curriculum enhancements, adding premier artist-faculty members, and implementing ambitious initiatives. In addition to championing the school’s global outreach efforts, Webb brought some of the world’s foremost musical figures to Bloomington, including Leonard Bernstein for a six-week residency in 1982 to work on his opera A Quiet Place with Jacobs students.

We have seen the whole gamut of plays and musicals, from brooding, knotted performances of Eugene O’Neill tragedies by Brian Dennehy to a recent revival of “On the Town” with its terrific score by Leonard Bernstein.

“Eight Academy Awards (including Best Picture) were heaped on this film and for good reasons, including: tight direction, inspired acting, Leonard Bernstein’s energetic music, and a brilliant script.”

1971 – In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.

Leonard Bernstein

Fans of classic and Broadway music surely will recognize the work of Leonard Bernstein, who was honored on a 1993 medal from the series.

Other highlights on Circles include Some Other Time, written by Leonard Bernstein, and given a Taubenhouse-facelift with an identical intro and outro which makes the beginning and ending feel like a complete circle. Betty Comden's lyrics have a circular aspect to them as well as each A section ends with the same sentiment, 'Oh well, we'll catch up some other time.'

The artist himself describes the medal in the exhibition catalogue as: “Thinking about medals I have made over the last few years.” Licaretz goes on to describe the medals pictured above his exploded head as “Paul Auster, esteemed Jewish author and filmmaker, Leonard Bernstein, a great Jewish composer, and at the top right, a piece called Momento Mori – female nude with skulls. At the lower left is a medal of Akhenaten, a rather infamous Egyptian Pharoah.”

The 1,807-seat, fully equipped and ADA accessible Patriots Theater at the War Memorial has welcomed legendary artists including Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Marian Anderson, Paul Robeson, and Leonard Bernstein, as well as the Cleveland and Philadelphia orchestras. Opened in 1932, the War Memorial was built as "a great community center" dedicated to the memory of the soldiers and sailors from Mercer County who died fighting World War I. The building is a National and State Historic Site which combines beauty, dignity, and civic utility. The War Memorial is owned by the State of New Jersey and operated by the New Jersey State Museum, Department of State.

Jamie Bernstein, daughter of Leonard Bernstein, will guide a program centered on marriage and partnership, featuring Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti alongside music by Strauss, Saint-Saëns, and Mendelssohn, on Friday, October 23 and Sunday, October 25. Tickets are available at https://my.austinsymphony.org/overview/1226.

Other highlights on Circles are, Some Other Time, written by Leonard Bernstein, and given a Taubenhouse-facelift with an identical intro and outro which makes the beginning and ending feel like a complete circle. Betty Comden's lyrics have a circular aspect to them as well as each A section ends with the same sentiment, 'Oh well, we'll catch up some other time.'

Robbins’ 1944 Fancy Free opened the program and was beautifully danced by Arian Molina Soca, Jack Thomas and Nicholas Patterson. This often-performed work takes place one night during WWII when Three Sailors are on leave in New York City, drinking beer, chasing women and enjoying being young and, well, fancy free. Set to a modernist score by Leonard Bernstein, the ballet’s premise and music are extended in the full-length musical On the Town, but the ballet’s plot and tone are darker. Whereas in the musical each sailor gets his girl, here, the girls leave the sailors (and rightly so) when their macho pugilism becomes tiresome. The early chasing of the girl with the red purse is also unsettling; the sailors pick on her repeatedly, yet she chooses to have a drink with them? It’s the one element that hasn’t aged well, though that is saying a lot considering the work is 82 years old and performed worldwide.

You might remember Ms. Olivera’s killer performance in On The Town at Olney Theatre Center where she played the wisecracking cab driver Hildy Esterhazy. To pay tribute to the role’s original performer Nancy Walker, Olivera takes Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green’s “I Can Cook, Too” into the stratosphere.

The centre, which is also a memorial to the assassinated Kennedy, opened in 1971 with the world premiere of Leonard Bernstein's requiem mass for Kennedy.

Then on November 29, 1962 — just under a year before his assassination — JFK and the first lady hosted a closed-circuit televised fundraiser for the performing arts center, with a goal of $30 million. The program, which went past midnight, featured Leonard Bernstein as master of ceremonies and included celebrities such as Robert Frost, Danny Kaye, Bob Newhart, and Harry Belafonte, as well as Eisenhower and his wife, Mamie.

BMG's repertoire includes works by iconic global artists, songwriters, composers, and playwrights, including will.i.am, Phil Collins, Tina Turner, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jason Aldean, Jelly Roll, Evanescence, Kylie Minogue, Billie Holiday, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Tennessee Williams, OneRepublic, Daddy Yankee, and Leonard Bernstein.

Ludwig is a McCarter Theatre/Sallie B. Goodman Fellow, and he has degrees from Harvard, where he studied music with Leonard Bernstein, Haverford College and Cambridge University.

At an age when most artists might reasonably be expected to look back on a revered career, Valdés remains strikingly restless. UNCUT arrives when his career now spans more than six decades. He has made 94 albums as a leading artist, authored more than 295 works, received 15 GRAMMY Awards-including 7 Latin GRAMMYs-and earned 28 GRAMMY nominations. He is an NEA Jazz Master, the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from Berklee College of Music, the Musical Excellence Award from the Latin Recording Academy and the Leonard Bernstein Award from the Longy School of Music, and is an inductee into the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame.

The main colonial-style home spans about 4,600 square feet and blends traditional 19th-century craftsmanship with modern structural updates. Inside, the home has old hand-cut wooden beams, exposed stone walls, and four wood-burning fireplaces with period mantels, including one from the 19th century and a Louis XV-style French limestone design. The living room has tall ceilings, wide white oak floors, tray ceilings, and French doors that open out to the grounds. To finish the interior restoration, the current owners worked with New York-based interior designer Gail Jacobs. Jacobs, known for her work on high-profile historic homes including Leonard Bernstein's former apartment at The Dakota in Manhattan, helped find period-appropriate fixtures such as antique Holophane-style lighting and Ann-Morris decorative pieces. In total, the estate has five bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms across the main house and other buildings on the property.

Johnisa Breault will lead the cast as Rosalind, returning to New Village Arts for the first time since appearing in Leonard Bernstein’s New York at The Flower Fields.

The building opened in 1971 with the commissioned work Mass by Leonard Bernstein. A controversial work, it included electric guitars and rock riffs (and references to growing anti-war sentiments opposing the Vietnam conflict). On a personal note, I was lucky to see and hear it in 1971, while I was still a penurious university student. Over the years, whenever I lived in Washington, we saw everything from operas to African dance, jazz, drama, and Broadway shows at the Kennedy Center.

Long before she attended Columbia University, Julia Jones graduated from Boston Latin School in 1999. Founded in 1635, Boston Latin School is widely recognized as the oldest public school in the United States, opening more than a year before Harvard College. The prestigious school has educated generations of influential Americans, including Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Leonard Bernstein.

TROUBLE IN TAHITI, a work by Leonard Bernstein, will come to Wagner College Theatre next month. Set in the picture-perfect suburbs of 1950s America, this one-act opera peels back the glossy façade of domestic bliss to reveal the quiet frustrations within a seemingly ideal marriage.

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"Leonard Bernstein filled cavernous theaters with awe. Clara Lemlich won rights that protest workers to this day. Kleinfeld Bridal dressed us for our most special days. And Katz's has fed us for more than a century," he said.

“For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city,” Mamdani said in a 2½-minute video accompanying the report. He ticked off accomplishments by famed Jews and Jewish institutions, like composer Leonard Bernstein and Katz’s Delicatessen in Manhattan.

"While these efforts are aimed at protecting our Jewish neighbors, they will benefit all New Yorkers. Our safety is bound up together," he added. "The Mishnah teaches us that 'anyone who sustains one soul it is as though they have sustained an entire world.' For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Leonard Bernstein filled cavernous theaters with awe. Clara Lemlich won rights that protect workers to this day. Kleinfeld Bridal dressed us for our most special days. And Katz's has fed us for more than a century. Today, we hold a responsibility to sustain and protect our Jewish neighbors."

Patti LuPone (Diana Vreeland) is a three-time Tony Award winner for her performances as Joanne in Marianne Elliott's award-winning production of the Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical Company; Madame Rose in the celebrated Broadway revival of the Jule Styne-Stephen Sondheim-Arthur Laurents classic Gypsy; and the title role in the original Broadway production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Evita. Other New York stage credits include The Roommate; War Paint (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations); Shows for Days; The Seven Deadly Sins (NY City Ballet); Company (NY Philharmonic); Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award nominations); Sweeney Todd (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations); Noises Off; Master Class; Anything Goes (Tony nomination, Drama Desk Award); Oliver!; Accidental Death of An Anarchist; and The Robber Bridegroom (Tony and Drama Desk nominations). Ms. LuPone has enjoyed a long association with David Mamet, starring on Broadway in productions of his plays The Anarchist, The Old Neighborhood and The Water Engine; Off-Broadway in Edmond and The Woods; as well as in his films Heist and State and Main.

Skylight Music Theatre opens its 67th season with Gypsy: A Musical Fable, with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Jule Styne, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, suggested by the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee. The production brings together acclaimed performers, longtime artistic collaborators, and emerging Milwaukee talent for one of Broadway's most celebrated musicals. Directed by Artistic Director Michael Unger, Gypsy: A Musical Fable explores ambition, family, and the pursuit of the spotlight through one of music theatre's most iconic characters: the formidable stage mother, Momma Rose.

It’s based on Romeo and Juliet. Need we say more? Fine. Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents’ musical adaptation of the Shakespearean classic is one of theatre’s most beloved shows of all time.

With a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Gypsy is a funny, moving and complex portrait of ambition, family, sacrifice and the relentless pursuit of the spotlight. The celebrated score includes “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “Let Me Entertain You,” “Together Wherever We Go” and “Rose’s Turn.”

Next year, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra — an intimate, 42-player group compared with the more than 100-member Los Angeles Philharmonic — will warm its new home, the highly anticipated, Frank Gehry-designed Terri and Jerry Kohl Hall. And it will do so with the help of a little light music: fanfares commissioned from half a dozen preeminent film composers — John Williams, Ludwig Göransson, Joel McNeely, Thomas Newman, James Newton Howard and John Powell — curated by none other than Seth MacFarlane (best known as the creator and star of “Family Guy”).

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) announced a new commissioning initiative supported by Grammy- and Academy Award-nominated artist Seth MacFarlane, bringing together several celebrated film composers. New fanfares by John Williams, Ludwig Göransson, Joel McNeely, Thomas Newman, James Newton Howard and John Powell will premiere throughout LACO's 2027-28 season.

The program will include Bernstein's West Side Story Suite; Mozart's Rondo Alla Turca; Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie's Be Bop Suite (arr. PROJECT Trio); Grieg's Hall of the Mountain King; Henry Mancini's Moon River; Mr. Sandman by The Chordettes; Lennon/McCartney's Blackbird and Eleanor Rigby; Pattillo's 3 Beats for Beatbox Flute; JS Bach/Jethro Tull's Bourrée; Rossini's William Tell; and several PROJECT Trio original works.

As a playwright, Younger's work has been produced Off-Broadway, regionally, and internationally. His comedy Kalamazoo, co-written with Michelle Kholos Brooks, won the Reva Shiner Comedy Award and is published by Dramatists Play Service. He was commissioned by New York's Irish Repertory Theatre to adapt Peter Quinn's Banish Children of Eve for the stage, and his play Tender, nominated for the IRNE Award for Best New Play and a finalist for the Laurents/Hatcher Award, was developed by Manhattan Theatre Club and featured in its 7x7 series, starring Michael Shannon and directed by Lynne Meadow. His comedy Mandate won the Samuel French Off-Broadway Festival and is currently being developed as a feature film. Several of his short plays have also been published, received awards, and been produced internationally, from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to performances in Dubai.

Primary Stages will present the Andrew Leynse Commitment to New Plays Award to Cherry Lane Alternative. Created in memory of Primary Stages' late Artistic Director Andrew Leynse, the Andrew Leynse Commitment to New Plays Award is given each year to a member of the theater community who has been a dedicated champion of new plays and new playwrights. Past recipients include theater agent Beth Blickers, The Laurents/Hatcher Foundation, and long-time theater agent and Founding Patron of Primary Stages' Liff Lab, Mickey Rolfe. Entering its 30th season, Cherry Lane Alternative (CLA) has spent three decades championing playwrights and producing new work, making it one of New York's longest-running nonprofit Off-Broadway organizations devoted to new play development. Founded in 1997 upon Angelina Fiordellisi's revival of the historic Cherry Lane Theatre, CLA has become an enduring steward of new work, cultivating the artistic relationships that shape the future of American theater.

Deepa Purohit has MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College, the City University of New York and made her Off- Broadway debut at The Atlantic Theater Company in New York City with the World Premiere of her play, Elyria in February/March 2023 (2023 Drama League Award Nominee for Outstanding Production of a Play). She's the recipient of the 2024 Hermitage Greenfield prize, a two-year commission for M[xx]: The Dignity Project, and also a 2024 Asian Women's Giving Circle grant recipient for its development. M[xx]: The Dignity Project will have its first public performance at The Exponential Festival in Brooklyn from January 11-17, 2027. Deepa received the 2023 Laurents/Hatcher Playwriting Award: Citation for Excellence in Playwriting and the 2022-23 Edgerton Foundation Award for her play Elyria. She's a 2023-2030 New Dramatists Resident and a 2022 Atlantic Theater Company commissioned artist (w/NYSCA) for her play Mai & Maa also developed with The Public Theater/Brooklyn College Summer Residency Program (2024). Deepa adapted her play Elyria into a TV series with the 2025 Orchard Project Episodic TV Lab. Deepa co-founded and ran Rising Circle Theater Collective (2000-2012) - centered on the stories of people of color - for 12 years. Member of Ma-Yi Playwrights Lab 2014-2020. Deepa also holds a master's in public health (MPH) from Columbia University, and a BA in History/African Studies: Northwestern University and trained as an actor at the Harlem Theater Company. A former public-school teacher, Deepa teaches/has taught playwriting in the MFA programs at Brooklyn College and The New School and is a communications/public speaking coach for executives working in public education.

Fallbrook Music Society appointed violinist Jay Allen Rosen to its board of directors. Rosen’s career is extensive — with credits on more than 2,000 major motion pictures, 800 recordings and 90 Broadway shows, he is one of the most recorded violinists in the industry. He has worked on soundtracks for movies like “Rocky,” “Jaws,” “Titanic,” “Apollo 13,” “Pirates of the Caribbean” and more, and has worked alongside legendary composers including Hans Zimmer, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith and Randy Newman.

I also completely fell in love with the music of the era. John Barry’s orchestral jazzy spy music, Lalo Schifrin’s incredible movie and TV themes. That music is absolutely the soundtrack to Pulp Vixens.

HMMA-winning film scores that also received Academy Awards include Ludwig Göransson for SINNERS and BLACK PANTHER; Hans Zimmer for DUNE; Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Jon Batiste for SOUL; Hildur Guðnadóttir for JOKER; Alexandre Desplat for THE SHAPE OF WATER; and Justin Hurwitz for LA LA LAND.

The Broadway score features Elton John and Tim Rice’s songs from The Lion King animated film along with three new songs by John and Rice; additional music and lyrics by South African Lebo M, Mark Mancina, Jay Rifkin, Julie Taymor and Hans Zimmer; and music from “Rhythm of the Pride Lands,” an album inspired by the original music in the film, written by Lebo M, Mark Mancina and Hans Zimmer. The resulting sound of The Lion King is a fusion of Western popular music and the distinctive sounds and rhythms of Africa, ranging from the Academy Award®-winning song “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” to Lebo M’s rich choral numbers.

His influences range from film composers such as Hans Zimmer and Michael Giacchino to the music his father introduced him to. “My dad really loved showing me Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, The Carpenters. Simon & Garfunkel is probably one of the biggest influences on my songwriting overall. I adore Simon & Garfunkel. I think ‘The Boxer’ effectively is probably a perfect song.” His listening habits are hardly confined to folk and country. “I’m a huge pop girly. I listen to all the major pop girls. They’re amazing. It’s spread really, really wide. I love listening to everything and anything, and I think it helps bring a slightly fresher take into this genre as well.” Though music was always around him, his own journey began elsewhere. He trained in theatre from five, made short films as a teenager and eventually built a career creating content and music videos. “My entire background is in doing content and music videos for artists.” Guitar came much later: “In terms of actually playing music and playing guitar, it’s only been about two years. I started practising in 2024.”

- Heroes & Villains: Symphonic Movie Music. Oct. 24. This thrilling program will explore the timeless battle between good and evil through music that has defined generations of filmgoers. Attendees will hear unforgettable themes by legendary composers like Hans Zimmer, John Williams, and Danny Elfman in a celebration of the scores behind cinema’s most iconic heroes and villains.

Mason Bands: West Side Story — The Symphonic Band and Wind Symphony travel from folk songs and Bach to Nicole Piunno before landing in Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (10/5)

And the driving force of Bernstein’s “West Side Story” took on a burnished beauty with the limpid playing of these artists.

Abe Lagrimas, Jr. is a musician, composer, educator, and author who plays the drums, vibraphone, and ʻukulele professionally. He studied at Berklee College of Music and competed in the highly prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Drums Competition in 2012. Abe has worked with many different artists, such as saxophonists Kamasi Washington, Eric Marienthal, trumpeter Eddie Henderson, pianists and composers Lalo Schifrin, David Benoit, vocalists Barbara Morrison, Michelle Coltrane, ʻukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro, and Taiko Drumming Master Kenny Endo. As a solo ukulele artist, Abe is a multiple Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award recipient and won in 2022 for ʻUkulele Album of the Year. He has released multiple albums in the United States, Japan, and South Korea, and his music has been featured in Hawaiian Airlines. Abe is also an active educator who has conducted workshops, currently teaches private lessons, and is an instructor in the Fender Play app. He is the author of Jazz ʻUkulele: Comping, Soloing, Chord Melodies, which is available online and in stores worldwide. He currently endorses Canopus Drums, Paiste Cymbals, Vic Firth Drumsticks, Beato Bags, Ohana Ukuleles, Analysis Plus Cables, Fusion Gig Bags, and Roswell Pro Audio. After a 15-year-long stint in Los Angeles, CA, Abe has returned home and is currently based in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi.

The music has been composed by Mychael Danna, known for films such as ‘Life of Pi’, ‘Monsoon Wedding’, ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ and ‘Moneyball’. The lyrics have been written by Gulzar.

The film is produced by Vinod Kapri, Suresh Joshi and Arindra Rai Chaudhuri under Bhagirathi Films and Mashakbeen Studios. Cinépolis will distribute the film in cinemas across India. The music has been composed by Mychael Danna, known for films such as ‘Life of Pi’, ‘Monsoon Wedding’, ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ and ‘Moneyball’. The lyrics have been written by Gulzar.

Mychael Danna, known for composing films such as Life of Pi, Monsoon Wedding, Little Miss Sunshine and Moneyball, has composed the music. Gulzar has written the lyrics.

Having premiered at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, where it won the PÖFF Best Film Audience Award, Pyre has travelled to several international festivals and won 18 awards, including 15 Best Film honours. With music by Mychael Danna and lyrics by Gulzar, the film now prepares to meet Indian audiences.

Mychael Danna, who won the Academy Award for Best Original Score for Ang Lee’s Life of Pi in 2012, has composed the music for Pyre. Danna is behind the score of several acclaimed films including Deepa Mehta's Oscar-nominated Water (2005), Mira Nair's Golden Lion winner Monsoon Wedding (2001) and Little Miss Sunshine (2006). Gulzar has written a song for the film.

The film is produced by Vinod Kapri, Suresh Joshi and Arindra Rai Chaudhuri under Bhagirathi Films and Mashakbeen Studios. Cinépolis will distribute the film in cinemas across India. The music has been composed by Mychael Danna, known for films such as 'Life of Pi', 'Monsoon Wedding', 'Little Miss Sunshine' and 'Moneyball'. The lyrics have been written by Gulzar.

While Akira Kurosawa felt largely ambivalent about "The Magnificent Seven," the movie definitely holds its own as far as '60s Westerns are concerned. This comes from having a remarkable ensemble cast, with each of the titular seven given their individual time to shine at least once. Guys like Steve McQueen, James Coburn, and Charles Bronson each make the most of their screen time, because they're so unfailingly cool. Coupled with one of the most rousing genre scores ever composed by Elmer Bernstein and "The Magnificent Seven" started the '60s off right for Western cinema.

dir. Martin Scorsese, 1993, 139 min, 35mm. One breathtaking composition follows another in Scorsese's adaptation of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece about social mores (and taboos) amongst New York's viperous moneyed classes in late 19th-century New York, brought to life by an all-star lineup of craftspeople including cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, editor Thelma Schoonmaker, production designer Dante Ferretti, and composer Elmer Bernstein. In front of the camera there are Daniel Day-Lewis and Michelle Pfeiffer suffering beautifully as wealthy lawyer Newland Archer and Countess Ellen Olenska, the divorced pariah whom he yearns for, and Winona Ryder as Archer's fiancée and, eventually, wife—outwardly a winsome innocent, but a cunning, cutthroat strategist where affairs of the heart are concerned. It was, Ryder stated during a recent appearance on (of all things) Hot Ones, 'The role of a lifetime.'

This unique event presents the classic film on a large HD cinema screen, fully synced to a live orchestral performance of Academy Award–winning composer Elmer Bernstein's spine-tingling score. It's the ultimate movie concert experience for fans of the beloved comedy.

Judi Silvano was born in Philadelphia and earned degrees in Music and Dance from Temple University. She sang there with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra, as a chorister in leading churches and drank ginger ale in the famed Showboat Jazz Club, before age 21, where notably she heard Rahsaan Roland Kirk as well as the Keith Jarrett Trio. She was a scholarship student at Pennsylvania Ballet School, a member of the South Street Dance Company with choreographers Ellen Forman & Alice Forner and her first tour to Europe was with Group Motion Multi Media Dance Company including shows at the Akademie der Kunste and a Residency in Berlin.

Brooklyn-based composer, pianist, and conductor, Dan Schlosberg's music has been performed by the Dover Quartet, Opera Philadelphia, Minnesota Orchestra, Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Nashville and Albany Symphonies, at Carnegie Hall, (le) poisson rouge, Sydney Opera House, Beijing Modern Music Festival, and David Lynch's Festival of Disruption. Recent projects include The Counterfeit Opera (Little Island), which he composed and conducted; a segment of the 10-composer vignette-opera Complications in Sue with a libretto by Michael R. Jackson (Opera Philadelphia); conducting/orchestrations for The Marriage of Figaro (Little Island); conducting/arrangements for Anthony Roth Costanzo's solo album, Countertenor; music directing/orchestrations for The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse (The New Group); the score for Patrick Wang's film A. Rimbaud; conducting Costanzo and Justin Vivian Bond's Only an Octave Apart; The Extinctionist, his new opera for Heartbeat Opera; and music directing/orchestrations for Show/Boat: A River (Target Margin/NYU Skirball). In addition to collaborations with Angel Blue, the Imani Winds, Anthony McGill, Ariana DeBose, Tony Kushner, and Ben Stiller, Dan was the pianist for Steven Spielberg's West Side Story, and a featured soloist in Only an Octave Apart with the New York Philharmonic and NPR's Tiny Desk. Dan has received the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two ASCAP Awards, and a 2023 Drama Desk nomination. He is the Music Director of Heartbeat Opera, for which his re-orchestrations of classic operas have been praised as 'flat-out brilliant,' 'the vision of a master sculptor,' (New York Times) and 'ingenious' (Wall Street Journal). www.danschlosberg.com

Brooklyn-based composer, pianist, and conductor, Dan Schlosberg's music has been performed by the Dover Quartet, Opera Philadelphia, Minnesota Orchestra, Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Nashville and Albany Symphonies, at Carnegie Hall, (le) poisson rouge, Sydney Opera House, Beijing Modern Music Festival, and David Lynch's Festival of Disruption. Recent projects include The Counterfeit Opera (Little Island), which he composed and conducted; a segment of the 10-composer vignette-opera Complications in Sue with a libretto by Michael R. Jackson (Opera Philadelphia); conducting/orchestrations for The Marriage of Figaro (Little Island); conducting/arrangements for Anthony Roth Costanzo's solo album, Countertenor; music directing/orchestrations for The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse (The New Group); the score for Patrick Wang's film A. Rimbaud; conducting Costanzo and Justin Vivian Bond's Only an Octave Apart; The Extinctionist, his new opera for Heartbeat Opera; and music directing/orchestrations for Show/Boat: A River (Target Margin/NYU Skirball). In addition to collaborations with Angel Blue, the Imani Winds, Anthony McGill, Ariana DeBose, Tony Kushner, and Ben Stiller, Dan was the pianist for Steven Spielberg's West Side Story, and a featured soloist in Only an Octave Apart with the New York Philharmonic and NPR's Tiny Desk. Dan has received the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two ASCAP Awards, and a 2023 Drama Desk nomination. He is the Music Director of Heartbeat Opera, for which his re-orchestrations of classic operas have been praised as 'flat-out brilliant,' 'the vision of a master sculptor,' (New York Times) and 'ingenious' (Wall Street Journal).

The Los Angeles Philharmonic will present its LA Phil Gala on Thursday, October 1, 2026, at Walt Disney Concert Hall. The program will feature Goldsmith’s Fireworks: A Celebration of Los Angeles, Tsfasman’s Jazz Suite, Herrmann’s Scène d’Amour from Vertigo, Bernstein’s Prelude, Fugue and Riffs, Tilson Thomas’ Lope, and two movements from Barber’s Piano Concerto.

A fun detail: eleven episodes of the first season of "Topper" were penned by a young Stephen Sondheim, not yet broken into musical theater. Sondheim's first musical, "Saturday Night" was completed by 1955, but it wouldn't make its Broadway debut until 1960, after the beginning of his "West Side Story." "Topper" also happened to provide one of the earliest directing gigs for Leslie H. Martinson, who would go on to helm 1966's "Batman," one of the best movies of all time. Many "Topper" episodes were also written by famed theater critic, screenwriter, and playwright George Oppenheimer. This series was a weird nexus of early 1950s talent.

The revue pulls together songs from across Stephen Sondheim's catalog, drawing selections from Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Gypsy and West Side Square Side and West Side Story into a single evening. Rather than telling one continuous story, the show is built around anecdotes and commentary that place the songs in context, tracing the composer's influence on the American musical through the decades.

But once he arrives, Haru and he combine for some incredible scenes, including a fight with a drunken elderly businessman that transforms into a "West Side Story" dance fight before transitioning into a choreographed dance number out of "La La Land," which admittedly is itself derivative of Stephen Sondheim's classic.

Nézet-Séguin will lead the Orchestra, the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir, and some of the world's finest classical singers in a program that pairs Beethoven's groundbreaking Ninth Symphony—his final symphony, with its inspiring choral finale—with the United States premiere of Composer-in-Residence Joe Hisaishi's Orbis, which places Beethoven and the famous “Ode to Joy” in a fresh context. Lending their soaring voices to the concert are soprano Leah Hawkins, mezzo-soprano J'Nai Bridges, tenor Issachah Savage, and bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green.

Student Orchestras of Greater Olympia kicks off its 26th season with an exciting fall concert featuring more than 180 young musicians. The program includes Bernstein’s Candide, Holst’s The Wand of Youth, and Malambo, along with a special performance by senior bassist Campbell Patterson, who will be featured soloist in Koussevitsky’s Double Bass Concerto.

If you missed the show, you can see a bit of that magic for yourself with Andreas singing a delightful mash up of two Henry Mancini songs, "Moon River" and "Two for the Road," with her husband, songwriter Martin Silvestri, joining her for a duet on the latter song. (Silvestri, who music directed the show, was her skilled accompanist on piano for the entire evening.)

The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra has released five critically acclaimed recordings, featuring works by Stravinsky, Beethoven, Mahler, Shostakovich, and Ravel. Among many other reviews of extravagant praise, Classic CD Magazine gave the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra's recording of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring the highest rank of all available recordings. Of Mahler's Symphony No. 6, American Record Guide wrote, “This joins the Rattle and the two Bernstein recordings as the finest on record…All the glory to Zander and his semi-professional orchestra, for the Sixth is probably Mahler's most difficult and complex symphony…All things considered, when I reach for a recording of the Sixth to play for my own pleasure, it will most likely be this one.”

The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra has released five critically acclaimed recordings, featuring works by Stravinsky, Beethoven, Mahler, Shostakovich, and Ravel. Among many other reviews of extravagant praise, Classic CD Magazine gave the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra's recording of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring the highest rank of all available recordings. Of Mahler's Symphony No. 6, American Record Guide wrote, 'This joins the Rattle and the two Bernstein recordings as the finest on record...All the glory to Zander and his semi-professional orchestra, for the Sixth is probably Mahler's most difficult and complex symphony...All things considered, when I reach for a recording of the Sixth to play for my own pleasure, it will most likely be this one.'

He later attended the Ecole d’Humanité in Switzerland and Hurtwood House school in London. Zimmer credits Ennio Morricone’s score for the film Once Upon a Time in the West with inspiring his career path.

- Joe Hisaishi Rewrites Classical Music History with Three Guinness World Records

The 7 p.m. Opening Night concert at Marian Anderson Hall will begin with the U.S. premiere of Joe Hisaishi’s “Orbis,” a companion piece inspired by Beethoven’s Ninth. The symphony will follow, building toward “Ode to Joy,” the famous melody heard during its choral finale.

Vallée, who served as one of several guest choral directors in 2025-26, was at Tanglewood on the final weekend of the BSO's summer season to lead the TFC in a Prelude concert in Ozawa Hall featuring Martín Palmeri's Misa a Buenos Aires and in two BSO performances in The Shed that offered Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, Brahms's “Selig sind, die da Leid tragen” from Ein deutsches Requiem, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. He also directed the TFC's performances with the BSO in the same Beethoven and Bernstein works at Symphony Hall last spring.

The BPO will celebrate George Gershwin's birthday with 'S'Wonderful Gershwin' September 25 and 26 featuring vocalist Alexandra McArthur, followed by 'Coco in Concert' on October 3, with the movie projected on the big screen while the orchestra performs Michael Giacchino's score live. October also brings a new Francis oratorio, Yacht Rock of the '70s & '80s and the BPO's annual Halloween programming.

Rodney Lister received his early musical training at the Blair School of Music in Nashville, Tennessee. He was a student at the New England Conservatory of Music (Bachelor of Music degree, with honors) and at Brandeis University (Master of Fine Arts and Ph. D. degrees) from 1975 to 1977. In between his stay at those two institutions, he lived in England, where he studied privately with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. He subsequently was a member of Davies’s composition seminar at the Dartington Hall Summer School of Music. He was a Bernstein fellow at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood. Mr. Lister was co-founder and co-director of Music Here & Now, a concert series of new music by Boston-area composers at The Boston Museum of Fine Arts (1971–1973), and from 1976 until 1982 was music coordinator of Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble. He was a founding member of the Music Production Company in 1982. He is currently on the faculty of Boston University and the Preparatory School of the New England Conservatory, where he teaches composition, theory, and chamber music and is co-director of the annual contemporary music festival. He is also a music tutor at Pforzheimer House, Harvard University, and is on the faculty of Greenwood Music Camp. His 2025 Métier choral album Of Mere Being, features Chengcheng Ma as pianist on 21 works. He will join Ma in the world premiere of his commissioned two-piano work at this concert. www.rodneylister.com.

So enjoy this track from The Henry Mancini 100th Sessions: Henry Has Company, the 2024 tribute celebrating the centennial of Mancini’s birth. The album brought together an impressive collection of contemporary jazz stars and musical legends, including Herbie Hancock, Arturo Sandoval, Quincy Jones, John Williams, Snarky Puppy, Take 6, and Stevie Wonder. It was an extraordinary all-star celebration of Mancini’s music.

During a symposium that included other industry veterans like composer Alexandre Desplat, filmmakers Lee Daniels and Shannon Murphy, producer Lorenzo Mieli, and artist Marc Quinn, Gyllenhaal explained the film’s unique narrative structure. “Flesh Impact” portrays a 100-year-old Marilyn Monroe alongside flashbacks to her 30s, with Johnson taking on the challenging role.

- Frankenstein (Netflix) Alexandre Desplat

Hear scores by Danny Elfman, Mark *Isham, Jeff Beal and more on an evening of documentary soundtracks. Reel Music, Saturday night at 9 and Sunday evening at 6 on WSHU.

Produced by Namit Malhotra's DNEG and Prime Focus Studios, "Ramayana" has been mounted as an ambitious global-scale adaptation, with Oscar-winning filmmaker Hans Zimmer and Grammy-winning composer James Newton Howard attached to the music.

To match its ambitious scope, the production has enlisted world-renowned musical talents, with Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer and Grammy-winning composer James Newton Howard teaming up to score the film.

Mark Mancina

Mark Mancina’s score gives the storms both scale and menace, while the movie cleverly alternates between spectacular tornado sequences and scenes of the team simply hanging out. And then there are the cows. In the middle of a tornado funnel, cows fly by. “We got cows”. “More cows.” “No, same cows.” It may be one of the simplest great lines in movie history. My wife and I regularly use it on stormy days.

- Voices Return – Lin-Manuel Miranda reunites with longtime collaborators Mark Mancina and Opetaia Foaʻi to bring the music of Moana into live-action, reimagining both the original songs everyone loves and a new song “Along The Way.”

- Voices Return – Lin-Manuel Miranda reunites with longtime collaborators Mark Mancina and Opetaia Foaʻi to bring the music of "Moana" into live-action, reimagining both the original songs everyone loves and a new song "Along The Way."

Another feature focuses on the music. Lin-Manuel Miranda joins Mark Mancina and Opetaia Foaʻi to discuss the original songs and the new track “Along the Way.” Disney will release a limited-edition 4K UHD SteelBook on October 6. The package features Lagaʻaia and Johnson as Moana and Maui, along with Pua and Heihei.

"Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" may have originally tanked with critics, but it scored with McCartney's rock fans. The tune features multiple key and tempo changes, flugelhorn, surrealistic imagery, and the joyous refrain "Hands across the water (water) / Heads across the sky." The song is so ingenious that McCartney has never performed it live, likely due to the its multifaceted nature. Besides the various musical sections reminiscent of other McCartney compositions, there's a smattering of sound effects and an orchestral accompaniment by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Through it all, the song hangs together as a cohesive whole.

Hosted by President Bill Clinton, Jiang arrived with Madame Wang Yeping to a formal South Lawn. The State Dinner featured poached lobster, pepper-crusted Oregon beef, and Marzipan panda bears. Guests then travelled by trolley to a South Lawn tent, where the National Symphony Orchestra performed works by Bernstein, Copland, and Sousa.

Also in July, Italian-Turkish conductor Nil Venditti brings Bernstein, Gershwin and Bartok to the stage, with Korean soloist Joyce Yang playing Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F.

‘The Bride of Frankenstein’ with live orchestra The screening of classic horror films with live musical accompaniment has become a real local seasonal highlight. At the Theatre at Ace Hotel this year, the L.A. Opera Orchestra, conducted by Jenny Wong, will perform Franz Waxman’s score to James Whale’s 1935 “The Bride of Frankenstein.” One of the rare cases in which a sequel may be better than the original, “Bride” finds Boris Karloff reprising his role as the Monster after the success of 1931’s “Frankenstein,” with Colin Clive also returning as Dr. Frankenstein. Elsa Lanchester plays both author Mary Shelley and the title role. I’m going on Saturday because in years past the post-screening costume party has been a real hoot.

Want to create a display about Contemporary composers? Look no further! This bundle contains information about Bernstein, Davis, Gershwin, Joplin, Stravinsky, Whitacre and Williams

Seattle Symphony presents Ennio Morricone: The Official Symphonic Experience - October 2-4

Bernstein and Sondheim’s 1957 retelling of Romeo And Juliet set the musical world on fire. It was gritty, intense, and romantic. And the show’s famous duet took its adoration to another level.

Marvel Studios flexes its range with the special presentation “Werewolf by Night,” proving it’s just as capable of scares as it is superheroes. Composer Michael Giacchino makes his directorial debut with the film — which has been in the works for more than two decades — from a script by Heather Quinn and Peter Cameron. Gael Garcia Bernal and Laura Donnelly star as monster hunters summoned to compete for the top seat of their monster hunter guild. The monochrome, retro-styled gothic horror had its premiere at Fantastic Fest and is now streaming on Disney+.

Unfortunately, audiences weren't all that interested and failed to make "The End of Oak Street" the biggest movie of 2026 like it should have been. It really is a shame, too, seeing as this film has everything you could want from a summer blockbuster. That includes two incredibly likable and hot lead actors in Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway, a solid high concept that keeps you engaged from the get-go, thrilling action that'll have you on the edge of your seat, an emotional score by Michael Giacchino, and lots of dinosaur chaos.

The limited theatrical release will include screenings presented on 70mm film, giving some audiences an opportunity to see Bird’s animated feature on a large-format screen. ‘Ray Gunn’ will begin streaming on Netflix on December 18. The movie has a PG rating for violence, action, language, suggestive material, and thematic elements. Bird has said he wanted the film to reach a slightly different, more adult-skewing audience than Pixar traditionally serves. Michael Giacchino composed the film's score, while Kimbra contributed original songs.

- Brad's go-to composer, Michael Giacchino, provides the score for Ray Gunn.

“The people that I want to work with, whether they’re designing costumes or sets or animating characters or doing music, they’re co-storytellers,” Bird tells Inverse. Ray Gunn marks the director’s sixth consecutive project with composer Michael Giacchino, his most consistent collaborator. “It's like a successful marriage,” Bird says of their decades-spanning partnership, “because we don’t live together.”

Bird wrote the screenplay with Matthew Robbins, based on his own original story. Michael Giacchino composed the score, while Paul Felix serves as production designer, Wendell Luebbe as art director, and Neysa Bove as costume designer.

Michael Giacchino's Marvel credits can easily reflect his wide range of fanfare's that can seem perfectly set for superhero films. But when Matt Reeves' 2022 flick The Batman, starring Robert Pattinson as the caped crusader first graced the theatre screens, we truly learnt of the incredible ranged he possesed. Echoing the film's noir visuals and storyline, Michael's four-note motif became one of the best superhero themes that fan heared in recent times.

The World Soundtrack Awards‘ Discovery of the Year prize has a knack for spotting emerging talent. Gustavo Santaolalla (“21 Gramsâ€), Michael Giacchino (“The Incrediblesâ€) and Nicholas Britell (“Moonlightâ€) all won it before reshaping the modern film score, and recent winners Daniel Blumberg (“The Brutalistâ€) and Jerskin Fendrix (“Poor Thingsâ€) look set to follow.

Ron Allen;Chris Bleth;John Debney;Nick Ingman & his Orchestra

The film will screen live with an all-women orchestra conducting John Debney's score at the London venue.

State Supreme Court elections across the country are getting ever more expensive and more partisan. In the third episode of “We Don’t Talk About Leonard,” ProPublica reporters Andrea Bernstein, Andy Kroll, and Ilya Marritz drill even further into the fight to gain influence over state courts, and reveal what Leo and his allies are planning for the future.

- We Don't Talk About Leonard: Episode 3 Oct 13, 2023Reporters Andrea Bernstein, Ilya Marritz, and Andy Kroll bring you Episode 3: The Federalist Society for Everything

It was, in short, a landmark performance. Dudamel's baton technique is expressive but never showy, and what came through was a deep trust between conductor and orchestra. The Philharmonic has a proud history with this composer, having been led by Mahler himself and later by Bernstein, and Friday's performance seemed to reclaim that legacy with confidence and fresh eyes.

Sure, Skinny Steve – a cutting-edge effect at the time – doesn't always hold up as well as you might hope. But that's not what I'm talking about. More than any other Marvel movie, The First Avenger feels like a relic of a time not too long ago when popcorn blockbusters were lovingly handcrafted, morally direct, and charmingly earnest. As Doomsday is dinged across the four corners of the internet for its sludge-brown environments, The First Avenger deserves props for its gorgeous tactile sets, impressive prosthetic Red Skull, and stirring Alan Silvestri score.

Based on the Universal Pictures/Amblin Entertainment film, BACK TO THE FUTURE The Musical has a book by Bob Gale and new music and lyrics by Emmy and Grammy Award-winning Alan Silvestri and six-time Grammy Award-winning Glen Ballard, with additional songs from the film including The Power of Love and Johnny B. Goode.

Fast forward to August 2026—nearly 30 years after the original's debut—when I attended an early screening of the hotly anticipated sequel. It was a particularly blistering afternoon, and though the remnants of a steamy subway commute still clung to my skin, nothing could keep goosebumps from crawling up my arms as the first notes of Alan Silvestri's "Amas Veritas" drizzled over the opening credits. I won't spoil the plot for you, but I can tell you two things: The magic is back and better than ever, and the makeup and hair looks are just as covetable as they were in '98. Keep reading for the full beauty breakdown on your favorite family of witches, straight from the film's head makeup designer, Johnston, head hair designer, Claire Pritchard, plus Bullock's and Kidman's right-hand artists.

Beyond that, there are too many unnecessary special effects, and the soundtrack was pandering—I love the new Olivia Rodrigo album, but the climax set to “The Cure” didn’t fit, and Alan Silvestri’s soaring theme from the first movie, which is only heard during the denouement, didn’t tug the heartstrings as it would have if it were woven throughout the film.

Alan Silvestri is composing the film's score. He also composed for The Avengers, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame. He is responsible for the famous "Avengers Assemble" theme that recurs in numerous MCU films.

Composer Michael Nyman originally wrote and recorded the complete score for Practical Magic. However, studio executives felt Nyman's score wasn't a standard "Hollywood soundtrack" and decided to replace it with a new score by Alan Silvestri shortly before the theatrical release. This led to a brief period when two completely different soundtracks were available for purchase.

Set to Miklós Rózsa's Duo Op. 7 and Franz Waxman's Four Scenes of Childhood, both for violin and piano, Femme Fatale is a seasonally inspired work, evoking the spirit of Halloween. Known for their extensive work in Hollywood, Rózsa and Waxman won multiple Academy Awards for their original film scores, including Ben-Hur (Rózsa) and Sunset Boulevard (Waxman).

Mr. Wolosoff’s 17-minute piece is just one of several being offered in a concert by Ethel, an avant-garde string-quartet based in New York. Also on the eclectic program are works by composers Ennio Morricone, Philip Glass, Marcelo Zarvos, Dan Friel, Janis Joplin, and all four members of the quartet — Ralph Farris (viola), Kip Jones (violin) Dorothy Lawson (cello) and Tema Watstein (violin).

‘Days of Heaven’ at the Academy On Sunday, Oct. 8, the Academy Museum will screen Terrence Malick’s second feature, 1978’s “Days of Heaven,” in a new 35mm print in the David Geffen Theater, which should be an incredible way to experience one of the most ravishingly beautiful movies ever made, with Oscar-winning cinematography by Néstor Almendros and an Oscar-nominated score by Ennio Morricone. The film also features art direction by Jack Fisk, who worked on Martin Scorsese’s upcoming “Killers of the Flower Moon.”

‘The Untouchables’ This newsletter is reflexively pro-Brian De Palma, so news that the Academy Museum is showing a new 35 mm print of his 1987 film “The Untouchables” will not go unnoticed. Kevin Costner plays federal agent Eliot Ness attempting to take down mobster Al Capone, played by Robert De Niro. The screenplay was written by David Mamet. A masterclass in sheer pop-cinema perfection, the film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including one for Ennio Morricone’s score, with Sean Connery winning for supporting actor.

It is perhaps an unlikely combination when the sounds of Led Zeppelin and The Doors meet the classical melodies of Beethoven and Ennio Morricone, yet that is exactly what is coming up in a performance this September.

Theatre of Hate were very much into a different arrangement of music, with guitar that was like Ennio Morricone. It wasn’t powerchords but really Spaghetti Western sounds with reverb.

Another highlight of the day in Venice was Labyrinth Reply, the new Reply Group company dedicated to AI-generated film and audiovisual productions, created by bringing together Labyrinth Studio's creative and production expertise with Reply's technology ecosystem. The day opened with two interactive films produced by OOVIE Studios in collaboration with Labyrinth Reply, presented through two Music Interactive Movies sessions combining live music, cinema and artificial intelligence. Celebrated film scores were reinterpreted through two original short films by Jacopo Reale, AI Creative Director at Labyrinth Studio and winner of the AIFF 2025. The first session featured a new performance of the interactive short inspired by Il Postino, previously presented at the 2026 World AI Film Festival in Cannes and developed around the original music of Luis Bacalov. The second marked the world premiere of Alberto e il mare, an interactive short set to Ennio Morricone's original score for Giuseppe Tornatore's Malèna

Such talk was relative: the ten-minute The Globalist opens with whistling and Ennio Morricone atmospherics, segues into a thundering heavy metal midsection and closes as a grandly ostentatious piano ballad. Good luck pulling that off around a campfire on an acoustic guitar.

GEA Live has established itself as the premier partner in location-based entertainment, combining creativity, excellence and credibility to deliver unforgettable events that bring iconic brands to life in all their glory. Working with renowned IPs from TV, film, theatre, music, gaming, and anime, GEA Live design, produces and distributes everything from symphonic and film concerts to immersive exhibitions and stage shows. With a vast portfolio of shows spanning more than 40 countries, GEA Live has collaborated with world-class brands like PlayStation, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Twilight, Dirty Dancing, Our Planet, and Demon Slayer, in addition to exclusively representing the legendary Ennio Morricone. As a trusted pillar of Sony Music's Masterworks Live division, GEA Live has partnered with entertainment giants like Sony Pictures, Lionsgate, Viacom, and Warner Brothers, among others, delivering unparalleled value for licensors while further elevating the world's most cherished brands.

Recording the album Love Makes the Changes was a year-long labor of love, focusing on the lifelong journey of love: the joy, the hope, the heartache, the beginning, the end, and everything in between. Love Makes the Changes features the music of McCoy Tyner, Michel Legrand, Ennio Morricone, Bill Evans, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Roger Kellaway and more! Love Makes the Changes is available on Spotify and Apple Music. For more information, see mariacorsaro.com/album.

1. 'Once Upon A Time In The West' by Ennio Morricone

His musical contribution was inspired by Ennio Morricone, and specifically the score to the film A Few Dollars More. In typical Hook style, he treated his bass like a semi-acoustic guitar, adopting a similar musical poise to the Spaghetti Western score.

The Dog, the Cat & the Ugly by Ennio Morricone, but with animals doing the vocal parts.

- 6.45am, Pincio: a sunrise concert with Gilda Buttà, Ennio Morricone’s long-time pianist, playing the Maestro’s music.

The 21st edition of the Rome Film Festival, produced by the Fondazione Cinema Per Roma, will take place between October 13 and 25 at Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone, with one of the world’s largest red carpets.

The Philadelphia Orchestra opens its 127th season with its annual opening-night gala concert led by music and artistic director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conducting Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Opening Night is followed immediately by three days of concerts focused on Bernstein and Brahms, kicking off a season that has classical and pop offerings and celebrates the Kimmel Center’s 25th anniversary.

Violinist YuEun Kim and pianist Sung Chang perform music composed by César Franck, Antonín Dvořák, Clara Schumann, Sergei Prokofiev, Maurice Ravel and Robert Schumann, inspired by emotions experienced by Kim during her recent journey into motherhood in the recital “Songs My Mother Taught Me.”

The first season is the one to judge it on: it took its science seriously enough that episodes ended with a scientist explaining the real principle behind the story and it won two Emmys for its music, John Debney for the main title theme in 1994 and Don Davis for composition in 1995. Season two chased aliens and psychic powers instead, and Scheider called it out publicly, calling the new direction childish trash. Michael Ironside took over as captain for a third season retitled seaQuest 2032 before NBC pulled it. All three seasons are on Peacock, and it also streams free with ads on Xumo Play.

Fan events will include appearances by composer John Debney and artist George McClements, plus photo ops and exclusive merchandise.

- The fan event will have a special introduction from Hocus Pocus composer John Debney and screenwriter David Kirschner.

Principal Cellist of the Rockford Symphony Orchestra, Michael also teaches cello and bass at the Music Academy in Rockford. His eclectic performing experience includes recitals in Canterbury, England and stage shows with such artists as Sammy Davis Jr., Bob Hope, and Henry Mancini. Kristen Nelson is a prominent collaborative pianist in the region with a thriving piano studio and frequently appears with vocalists, instrumentalists, and choral ensembles.

He grew up looking the extreme potential of Norwegian nature dead in the face. When standing right outside the farm he was raised on in the rural town of Notodden, he could see snow-capped mountains and ice-cold rivers. Indoors, he spent most of his time shielded from the elements playing piano and guitar, inspired by the majesty of such metal icons as Iron Maiden and Twisted Sister, alongside swelling soundtracks composed by Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams.

Few films have captured the work, responsibility, and power of investigative journalism as vividly as 'All the President's Men.' Released in 1976 and directed by Alan Pakula, the film stars Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, as Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, whose painstaking investigation of the Watergate break-in helped uncover a political scandal that ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

Academy Award winners Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman star in this true story as Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, whose investigation of a seemingly minor hotel room break-in uncovers the greatest political scandal in United States history and leads to the downfall of President Richard Nixon.

Few films have captured the work, responsibility, and power of investigative journalism as vividly as 'All the President's Men.' Released in 1976 and directed by Alan Pakula, the film stars Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, as Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, whose painstaking investigation of the Watergate break-in helped uncover a political scandal that ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.Based on Woodward and Bernstein's book, the film received eight Academy Award nominations, it won four Oscars. Fifty years later, it remains a landmark portrait of journalism, of cultivating sources, verifying facts, confronting powerful institutions, and following a story wherever it leads. The Library of Congress added the film to the National Film Registry in 2010.Last weekend WAMC and the Crandell Theatre in Chatham teamed up for a special screening of all the president's men, followed by a conversation about the film and the current state of journalism and investigative reporting. It was a full house, and our panel brought together four people with very different perspectives on the press, politics, and public life.

1951 – Mark Isham, American trumpet player and composer

The audio featured are Dolby Atmos and original stereo mixes, that ensures the music, by composer Mark Isham, gives you the feeling of dread and despair which anyone would have felt when they themselves come face to face with The Hitcher.

- Mark Isham: "The Times of Harvey Milk"

Gary Marks first emerged in the 1970s with three albums blending folk, rock and jazz. Those recordings brought together a remarkable group of young musicians who would become major figures in jazz and contemporary music. Guitarist John Scofield made his first studio appearance on Marks's 1974 album, Gathering. On the following two albums, Marks was joined by Paul McCandless of Oregon on oboe and saxophone, ECM pianist Art Lande, vibraphonist David Samuels and trumpeter Mark Isham.

Presented by John Foreman's Australian Pops Orchestra and Sony Music Australia in their first-ever collaboration, this landmark event brings together the music of two of cinema's most iconic composers—Hans Zimmer and John Williams—in a thrilling live concert experience.

Järvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich – a nominee for Gramophone's 2026 Orchestra of the Year – launched their Mahler cycle on Alpha Classics in 2025 with releases of both the Fifth Symphony and the First. The latter recording was named a Gramophone 'Editor's Choice' for November 2025, with the reviewer declaring: 'I do believe this is one of the best – perhaps even the best – account of Mahler's precocious First Symphony that I've heard on disc since the celebrated Bernstein/Concertgebouw version. … Paavo Järvi and his Zurich orchestra really do make it feel and sound brand new. Its daring colourations are relished, its youthful audacity writ large. Everything is ripe and vivid. ... Put simply this account rekindles much of the excitement that I for one experienced in hearing the piece for the first time. Heartily recommended.'

One of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch,” Gareiss is widely recognized for his singular voice in the realm of dance and the traditional arts. Informed by 25 years of ethnographic study and performance, Gareiss’ work draws from many percussive dance practices to weave together a technique facilitating his love of improvisation; clog, flatfoot, and step dance vocabulary; and musical collaboration. He has concertized in seventeen countries with many of the luminaries of roots music and folk dance including Yasmin Williams, Alasdair Fraser, Natalie Haas, Bruce Molsky, The Chieftains, Colin Dunne, Darol Anger, The Gloaming, Ira Bernstein, Liz Carroll, Phil Wiggins, and Sandy Silva. Gareiss has performed at London’s Barbican Centre, the Irish National Concert Hall, the Munich Philharmonic, and Carnegie Hall. In addition to his two solo shows The Art of Treepling and Solo Square Dance, Nic collaborates in duo projects with Allison de Groot, Caleb Teicher, Cleek Schrey, Jake Blount, Laurel Premo, Maeve Gilchrist, Alexis Chartrand, Jack Devereux, Simon Chrisman, Ultan O’Brien, in a trio with Lissa Schneckenburger and Garrett Cameron, and as a member of the quartet This is How we Fly.

I am like the biggest Sondheim nerd ever, so I love all of his musicals. My favorite musical is Sweeney Todd. I guess I just like dark, murderous shows. But Sondheim is someone who has brought so much humanity and depth and grandeur and nuance to the form. I'm always so moved by his musicals. I grew up with Sweeney Todd, I grew up with Little Shop of Horrors. I love Something Rotten, paying homage to Shakespeare and musical theater. Those are my three big favorites. Of course, West Side Story and some of the sweeping Golden Age musicals like Oklahoma have made a huge impression on my life.

The National Theatre has announced its exciting 2027 season, with multiple starry names, musicals old and new, and gripping new plays. Along with an exciting and long overdue revival of West Side Story, Sondheim’s first major Broadway show and debut in 1957.