In an homage to America’s first internationally acclaimed conductor, Symphoria will open and close its Oct. 14 Masterworks concert with music from Leonard Bernstein. Sandwiched between will be Robert Schumann’s Concerto for Cello, and contemporary composer Anna Clyne’s tone poem, “This Midnight Hour.”
The soon-to-be released movie “Maestro,” starring Bradley Cooper and Felicia Montealegre, has renewed public interest in Bernstein (1918–1990). The music Symphoria will perform comes from the maestro’s most prolific and popular years when he was sought as a guest performer, installed as conductor at the New York Philharmonic, and featured on television bringing classical music into the homes of Americans.