Review: Lyric Opera offers up a sweet celebration of Bernstein at 100
Chicago Tribune March 11, 2018 For all the larger-than-life fame Leonard Bernstein achieved on the podium, on television and in everything else this multifaceted musician did, Bernstein the composer was deeply torn between his need to be at once the George Gershwin and the Gustav Mahler of his era. The iconic status he achieved as the most important American musician of the 20thcentury simply wasn’t enough