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‘Tis the season! Walk off Thanksgiving dinner with holiday shopping and fun light displays starting this weekend.

In his second directing effort (after "A Star Is Born"), Bradley Cooper plays the conductor opposite Carey Mulligan as his wife, actor Felicia Montealegre.

What does a conductor do when they stand up and move their hands and baton? What is their role? And how has their way of leading evolved?

Anthony Lane reviews “Maestro,” Bradley Cooper’s bio-pic about Leonard Bernstein, starring Cooper as Bernstein and Carey Mulligan as his long-suffering wife, Felicia.

Bradley Cooper had to learn to conduct an entire orchestra for »Maestro« The film tells the story of the life of the American musician Bernstein (1918-1990) The film, in which Carey Mulligan plays Bernstein's wife, is set to hit U.S. theaters in November. It will be available to watch on Netflix from December 20, according to a report in the British newspaper The Guardian. The Guardian: Cooper spent six years learning how to conduct music for six minutes and 21 seconds.

St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church will hold a free concert showcasing its 95-year-old organ this Friday at 7 p.m.

Bradley Cooper has audiences in raptures as electrifying conductor Leonard Bernstein in a new authorised biopic. Musicians from the London Symphony Orchestra remember playing for the great man – and rate the man who now plays him

The star's second film as director tells the love story between composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein and his wife, actress Felicia Montealegre - a marriage complicated by the fact that Bernstein also had affairs with men.

Brahms’s Violin Concerto stands alongside Beethoven’s at the peak of the instrument’s repertoire. Charlotte Gardner makes a selection from almost a century of recordings

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