Maestro: Carey Mulligan steals this Leonard Bernstein biopic from under Bradley Cooper’s controversial nose
Director Cooper struggles to rise above impersonation in his portrayal of the great American conductor and composer
Leonard Bernstein
‘We thought, Oh wow, we hit the big time: they mentioned Dad on The Flintstones’
Maestro, Bradley Cooper’s film about the West Side Story composer Leonard Bernstein, has been an emotional experience for his daughters
The Maestro mess: Did Bradley Cooper really need to tamper with his nose to play Leonard Bernstein?
Donald Clarke: A class of dull pedantry seems to have taken over in the production office
West Side Story: An eye-opening production of a modern classic
Theatre: If you know the musical only from the 1961 and 2021 film versions, you’ll find Lonny Price’s staging a surprise
Janis Ian: ‘It was astonishing to realise that At Seventeen applied to boys too’
After a career tackling difficult subjects, the singer-songwriter is releasing a final album
West Side Story's Ariana DeBose: ‘I was enamoured with Rita Moreno’
The performer and actor on playing the classic role of Anita in Steven Spielberg's remake
Broadway composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim dies aged 91
Stephen Sondheim wrote the lyrics for West Side Story, and composed Sweeney Todd
Eímear Noone: ‘I will never forget him saying “Welcome to the Oscars”’
On Sunday night, Noone will become the first woman to conduct at the Academy Awards
The notorious Donald John Trump goes on trial
He had savaged all his fellow Republicans and yet here they were, his Praetorian guard
Historic gate will be Berlin Philharmonic’s backdrop
New conductor Kirill Petrenko will front free open-air concert – for one night only
Switched-On Bach: How a transgender synth pioneer changed music
Wendy Carlos’s 1968 album of Bach music for Moog synthesiser brought electronic music into the mainstream and influenced artists from Giorgio Moroder to Daft Punk
Classical concerts: how do you attract the aficionados and the fickle?
This is the tightrope walk the RTÉ NSO and Damselfly Trio attempted last week
Classical concerts of the week, from Louis Schwizgebel to Marc Coppey
Plus: Don’t miss soprano Claudia Boyle’s showstopper in The Tales of Hoffmann
David Adams brings a broad church to his papal celebration
Organ recital in Dún Laoghaire included music from Argentinian composer Ginastera
Evolution of women composers a missing link in new concert series
Why does the NCH need €20,000 before it will bother exploring music by women?
Polkas for pink elephants: this week’s best classical concerts
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Johnny Gandelsman and Stravinsky’s circus music
Classical music to catch this week in Dublin
RTÉ Concert Orchestra taking over summer orchestral slots on Tuesdays and Fridays at NCH
Culture wars: even the arts are a Brexit battleground
Even the free movement of musical instruments could end, says one composer
Irish opera singer leading London’s Bring the Noise protest against Trump
100 musicians will lead Women’s March objecting to president’s UK visit
Instruments of change: how an orchestra is changing lives
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is working with disadvantaged schools to help open its doors to everybody
Hollywood’s problem is endless sequels, not remakes
The news that Spielberg is remaking ‘West Side Story’ drew some fire, but some of our best-loved films are remakes or ‘fresh’ adaptations of original novels. Need we go on?
Classical music highlights for week ending January 7th
New Year’s Eve Viennese Gala – New Year Celebration – RTÉ NSO/Alexander Shelley
Apple case shows beauty is in eye of software engineer
Extreme pride of engineers in something being well designed made me reflect on our approach to educating student engineers and innovators
Berlin reels at ‘stab in the back’ from Paris on migration
Angela Merkel’s policy defended after thinly-veiled criticism by French prime minister
French conductor and composer Pierre Boulez dies aged 90
Leading figure in classical music had reputation as an uncompromising modernist
Conducting the Bergen: ‘You’re a little bit traffic cop, a little bit Rasputin’
Andrew Litton, who is in Dublin for one of his final appearances as conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, explains the job he has obsessed about since the age of 10
Italian conductor revered for directness and musicality of his performances
Claudio Abbado: June 26th, 1933-January 20th, 2014
When composers talk about music, it’s well worth listening
Presentations by composers help to normalise what can often seem like the arcane world of new music
West Side Story
There are some breathtaking moments in the choreographed fight scenes but vocal performances are nowhere near as strong
Marin Alsop: a conductor with a beat that musicians want to play for
Ahead of her performance in Dublin on Saturday, the conductor tells how she was inspired by Leonard Bernstein
Premature concert clappers: let’s give them all a round of applause
There’s not much point in frowning on ‘ill-timed’ applause. What’s unusual today used to be the norm
Hairspray: There’s substance beneath that coiffed surface
The musical based on John Waters’s 1988 film is frothy but has a social message
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