Christoph Eschenbach

Leonard Bernstein's centenary celebration at Tanglewood illuminates an incredible career that inspired generations of music lovers around the globe. The legendary conductor-composer, who changed the face of American musical theater and classical music, studied conducting at Tanglewood - the famed summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra - and went on to teach and perform there for fifty ye...

Leonard Bernstein is reaffirmed as a towering figure in this portrait that highlights his artistic struggle as both composer and conductor, his tension between success and failure, and the politics of his time and his own humanitarianism.