At the New York Philharmonic’s February 14 Orchestrating Maestro: Music and Conversation about Leonard Bernstein event, from left: Bradley Cooper, Carey Mulligan, Nina Bernstein, Jamie Bernstein, Alexander Bernstein, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Photo by Chris Lee.
In Thursday’s (2/15) Vogue, Marley Marius writes, “New Yorkers were treated to an especially memorable (and exquisitely New York) Valentine’s Day at David Geffen Hall. There, Bradley Cooper, Carey Mulligan, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin—music director of the neighboring Metropolitan Opera—convened in the Wu Tsai Theater for a stimulating concert and conversation based on Maestro, Cooper’s magisterial feature film about the lives, work, and marriage of Leonard and Felicia Montealegre Bernstein. (It’s up for seven Academy Awards.)… The setting could not have been more apt: It was Bernstein himself who helped to inaugurate the former Philharmonic Hall … when Lincoln Center first opened; and for decades he lived mere minutes away—in the Dakota, on 72nd Street and Central Park West—while serving as music director of the New York Philharmonic…. Wednesday’s program had members of the current Philharmonic, as well as special guests … perform selections from Maestro’s hour-long soundtrack live—intercut with snatches of isolated dialogue and a few scenes from the film—after which Cooper, Mulligan, and Nézet-Séguin sat down for a discussion. (Nézet-Séguin served as Maestro’s all-important conducting consultant.)”
