Tag: Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein Netflix film criticized over ‘Jewface’
In lush black and white, a man and woman sit back-to-back in a park, playing a guessing game together, dreaming that they can communicate telepathically if they just try hard enough. The scene cuts...
Jews have bigger problems than a fake nose on an actor’s face
In contemporary popular culture dominated by social media, it doesn’t take much to start a controversy that can trend on Twitter. In this case, all it took was the release of production photos from “Maestro,” a...
Leonard Bernstein (1918 – 1990)
Leonard Bernstein was an American conductor, composer, and pianist, who became one of the most renowned figures in American musical history and world-famous as the conductor of The New York Philharmonic, as well as...
Cleveland POPS Orchestra spotlight Jewish music icons Bernstein, Robbins
The Cleveland POPS Orchestra will perform “A Broadway Celebration: Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins: A Centennial Celebration” from 8 to 11 p.m. March 2 at Severance Hall in the University Circle neighborhood of Cleveland.
“The...