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...What lies ahead is the story of the first American conductor to win global acclaim while also giving the world America, via his score for West Side Story....
...The primary school pupil from Harrow, north-west London, totalled a remarkable 8.5/13 against a field of highly rated grandmasters, international masters and experts....
...Sir Leonard Blavatnik is planning to invest hundreds of millions of pounds in buying up media businesses and producing new TV, films and theatre, according to the boss of the Ukraine-born billionaire’s entertainment...
...One essential element is a subject with a high level of charisma, and nobody offered more of that than American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein....
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...Later, during rehearsals for West Side Story, she flashes daggers at the ever-present Tommy (Gideon Glick)....
...But it was her indelible turn in West Side Story in 1957, which ran for 732 performances, that made her a star....
...The Adagietto — the music Leonard Bernstein took to his grave — lasted 13 minutes. But the music seemed not enervated but savoured....
...His office approved major developments in Manhattan’s windswept west side, both in West Chelsea and Hudson Yards, a former rail yard....
...While some residents welcome new development, especially in areas such as the Inner West — “which is in desperate need of urban renewal”, says Orr — in the wealthy Eastern Suburbs, Nimbies are out in force...
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...Currently featured in the Whitney Biennial, the American painter has solo shows on the east and west coasts....
...Marion Cotillard won an Oscar for playing Édith Piaf, and Bradley Cooper is now gunning for recognition for his role as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro, his self-scripted, produced and directed film....
...It’s renewed my affection for the piece, and I’ve added an excellent recording by Leonard Bernstein to the Inside Politics playlist....
...Letter in response to this article: West can learn from Ukraine’s ‘mosquito navy’ / From Charlie Merwin, Rose Valley, PA, US...
...Dudamel might share something of Leonard Bernstein’s theatrical style — as well as Lydia Tár’s admiration for the late, great Claudio Abbado — but little of his enormous ego....
...david.sheppard@ft.com Letter in response to this article: Oil majors have ‘destroyed value’ for shareholders / From Leonard Hyman, Sleepy Hollow, NY, US...
...Take a break from the news Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro, and the Disney fairy tale Wish — which marks the studio’s centenary — are among this week’s film releases....
...The decline started in the 1990s, when it became much easier for Russian GMs to travel to the west....
...Among the prizes of his book collection is an inscribed copy of Orlando that once belonged to Vita Sackville-West, the novel’s muse....
...In Montreal, he discovered Leonard Cohen. “For me, there is nothing better in the world. He talks about the mysteries of life,” says Iacobescu. “A lot of the songs are gloomy and sad....
...With one exception, they agreed: Adejoké Bakare’s west African restaurant Chishuru in Fitzrovia....
...Past guests include Leonard and Virginia Woolf; Edward Lear too....
...The programme is all-American, with classics by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and John Williams, as well as beloved pieces such as Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, 100 years after its debut....
...Bernstein: not the composer of West Side Story, but a financial adviser and former employee of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management....
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