Hershey Felder in Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein contained multitudes. Hershey Felder tries to sum them up in a 95-minute tribute. The first two-thirds of the evening take Bernstein up to age 25. They move at a detailed, instructive, and highly entertaining pace. The last third, however, plays as if Felder had to cram Bernstein's final 47 years into 47 minutes. They reduce Bernstein's multitudes into a few "issues": Who am I? Guilt over his wife, Felicia. Worry that he had no defining piece of music. As he demonstrated in previous tributes to Gershwin and Beethoven, Felder's a maestro at the piano (though less so as a vocalist). It's fascinating to follow a strand of music as it connects with others across the "continuum." In many ways, the sounds flying from a black Steinway tell the story, and its complexities, far more eloquently than the words.
Worth a try.
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