A composition that’s widely considered to be Leonard Bernstein’s finest concert piece is on the Omaha Symphony’s program this weekend. “Serenade,” written in 1954 after Bernstein read Plato’s ...
Leonard Bernstein’s way with orchestras that wouldn’t give him what he wanted was usually imploring, even beseeching. He was disappointed—the musicians were not so much failing him, the conductor, as ...
Forget Lollapalooza and all the rest. The hottest festival ticket happens just once a generation, if not once a lifetime. That would be the Mahler Festival, a musical G20 summit of sorts celebrating ...