I had secretly hoped that Bernstein might have re-thought his basic tempo for the opening movement. Overall, he puts almost two minutes on his 1967 CBS recording (reissued on CD in 1986), the whole ...

At the age of 25 he stepped in to conduct the New York Philharmonic with no ... When JFK himself was assassinated, Bernstein conducted Mahler’s Symphony No.2 (the Resurrection) in a nationally ...

Leonard – or 'Lenny ... for conductor Bruno Walter with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in 1943. The concert was broadcast on the radio and Bernstein became an instant star.

The text was written at the request of Leonard Bernstein ... 1974 debut with the New York Philharmonic, he has conducted virtually every major American and European symphony orchestra.

On Dec. 8, 1908, Symphony No. 2 debuted in the United States with Mahler conducting the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall. "Mahler's Symphony No. 2 is a challenging piece of work on many ...