Leonard Bernstein

In narrowly focusing on Leonard Bernstein’s tortured personal life, "Maestro" fails to explore his tortured artistic life.

The beloved musical’s creator struggled to find a place between left and center.

When conductor and soloist clash, a concerto performance can turn into a contest of wills.

We don’t often associate Charles Ives and Gustav Mahler, but both composers mined the past to root themselves in an unstable present.

Two books that remind us that tone and timbre, musical style and sound, matter to history.

The new film is set in a now-bulldozed Black neighborhood, so why is it all about whites and Puerto Ricans? Because it really takes place in Los Angeles.

Celebrating the composer’s 150th birthday, at a festival in Bloomington, Indiana.

Tom Wolfe was no radical.

Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic nose is the latest example of the struggles around Jewish representation on the stage and screen.

Despite its universalist claims, the field is reckoning with a long legacy of racial exclusion.

Outlining America's complex relationship and shared history with Puerto Rico and questions about sovereignty.

January 2017's Women's March wasn't the first time Fifth Avenue in New York City hosted an enormous demonstration.