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Discover Leonard Bernstein

The 10 best pieces of music by American maestro and composer, Leonard Bernstein.

Leonard Bernstein’s music: 10 best works by the American maestro

All the classical music featured in Bradley Cooper’s ‘Maestro’, from Leonard Bernstein to Beethoven.

What classical music is featured in Bradley Cooper’s Bernstein biopic ‘Maestro’?

Leonard Bernstein conducts an orchestra with just his eyebrows

When Leonard Bernstein needed only his eyebrows to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic

Leonard Bernstein led some of the world’s best orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, sometimes from the piano

Who was Leonard Bernstein? Exploring the man behind the ‘Maestro’, Bradley Cooper’s new musical biopic

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Bradley Cooper says epic Maestro take felt like he was ‘levitating’ above the orchestra

Bradley Cooper says he was ‘levitating above the orchestra’ in surreal Maestro conducting scene

Beethoven and West Side Story

Leonard Bernstein borrowed a famous Beethoven melody for West Side Story’s most emotional scene

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Yannick Nézet-Séguin on teaching Bradley Cooper to conduct

‘He should pursue conducting’ – the real maestro who taught Bradley Cooper to conduct like Bernstein

Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein, conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony in Ely Cathedral.

Bradley Cooper spent six years learning to conduct ‘six minutes of music’ for epic ‘Maestro’ scene