One of 2023’s most audacious films was a queasy drama where a self-serious actor attempted to slip into the physicality of a real-life subject in an ill-judged body-snatch for a vanity biopic. Maestro felt more like a big-screen slow clap for Bradley Cooper’s multitasking than Leonard Bernstein’s music. Leonard Bernstein’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Hollywood Boulevard …
The Israel Philharmonic, founded the day after Christmas in 1936 as the Palestine Symphony and first conducted by Arturo Toscanini, cannot escape history. Saturday night the Israel Philharmonic performed for the first time at the Soraya, as part of the orchestra’s first overseas tour since the pandemic. This is the orchestra’s first tour with its young and electrifying new music …
