The New York Times 26 March 2023

No figure in 20th century American classical music had as prominent or controversial a career – or did more to sell classical music to the general public as something genuinely exciting, and worth getting into a sweat over – than Leonard Bernstein. For more than 30 years, from his assumption of the post of Music Director of the New York Philharmonic in 1958 until the final concerts that he conducted in obviously failing health near the end of his life in 1990, he was the most prominent and widely recognized American-born conductor in the world, and the dominant personality in American classical music as both a conductor and, to a lesser degree, a composer. A flamboyant public figure, he burst three different times on the musical world – twice in classical with a rush of success on Broadway in between – in a blaze of glory, in the space of 15 years; and over a career lasting from the early '40s until the beginning of the '90s, he never lost an opportunity to advance his reputation as well as the cause of music.

Pink Floyd was an English rock band formed in 1965. With her music and the visual design of her records and stage performances, she created a new style. The unusual name goes back to the blues musicians Pink(ney) Anderson and Floyd Council, who were still alive at the time the band was founded.

The most difficult thing about an operetta is finding an effective title, Gustave Adolphe Kerker once claimed. Although this was not meant seriously, it is not so far-fetched - after all, anyone who has to struggle to invent melodies has no business in the light genre. born in Herford in Westphalia in 1854, taken to the USA by his parents at the age of ten and rising to become one of Broadway's most famous personalities, Kerker was indeed a paragon of ideas that only needed to be combined with a turbulent plot. Take: The Belle of New York (1897), which got off to a very slow start there, conquered London's West End with almost 700 performances, became a model of "musical comedy" and has remained so to this day. The Theater für Niedersachsen, which became Broadway with "The Belle of New York", always receives rapturous applause.