Host Terrance McKnight takes us through Leonard Bernstein's Black America, a one-hour radio documentary about his earliest, transformative memories of the iconic American conductor-composer and ...

A recent New York Times piece about the foreign policy challenges facing the Obama administration was illustrated by a row of three mugshots: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State, on the ...

Marin Alsop had just started her job as music director and conductor at Eugene Symphony when Leonard Bernstein invited her to celebrate her birthday with him in New York. It was Oct. 14, 1990. She was ...

“Bernstein’s career ranged from conducting the New York Philharmonic, to writing symphonies, to writing the Mass, to being the bon vivant that he was. And even a lyricist — he wrote the lyrics to ...