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Maestrostarring Bradley Cooper as West Side Story composer Leonard Bernsteinis all about the great loves of his life: music and his wife, bernstein bad.

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A sense of doom hangs over this exploration of the distance that exists between people, revolving around unnamed characters in an unnamed town. O ver the last decade or so, literary fiction has often taken a particular shape on the page. Everything is folded into one neat justified column — memories, digressions, dialogue never signalled with quotation marks. New paragraphs are scarce. Page breaks do the work chapter breaks used to. This has an effect on language and tone. There is usually a resulting flatness, a poised Jamesian distance from which everything unspools. The diction is lofty and purposeful. Disturbances or disruptions are embedded in this cool, calm delivery, underscoring their gravity while also maintaining distance. Conversations of a surprising intimacy prompt unexpected reflections.

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Maestro , starring Bradley Cooper as West Side Story composer Leonard Bernstein , is all about the great loves of his life: music and his wife. It's also about how he balanced those things with his love for men. The movie, which Cooper also directed and co-wrote with Josh Singer, is accurate in reflecting that prior to and throughout the course of Bernstein's year marriage to the actor Felicia Montealegre, he had affairs with men. Montealegre, played by Carey Mulligan , knew the truth about his sexuality and partners outside of the marriage, but chose to marry him, and stayed with him until her death in , raising three children together. In fact, she wrote a letter to him early on in their marriage, assuring him that she knew he was gay but that she would grin and bear it.

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But who was the legendary conductor-composer and why did his career change the face of American classical music forever? Born in , Bernstein was an acclaimed conductor, composer and pianist, who earned a remarkable 16 Grammy Awards throughout his career. But who was the man behind the music? Leonard Bernstein is known for being one of the most important figures in the history of American classical music. As a composer, he redefined the sound of Americana, with orchestral works such as his Candide Overture , and Mass still being heard in the concert hall today. His musical, West Side Story , is performed around the world, with notable productions on Broadway and in the West End decades later. The musical also inspired two films, released in both the 20th and 21st centuries. Read more: 10 best pieces of music by Leonard Bernstein.

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American society in the s and s was still deeply homophobic , and one of Bernstein's mentors, the Russian conductor Serge Koussevitzky, urged Bernstein to marry Montealegre to dispel rumors about his sexuality , according to Paul R. The narrator's relationship with Clara was mystifying to me. Maestro , starring Bradley Cooper as West Side Story composer Leonard Bernstein , is all about the great loves of his life: music and his wife. Or what she sees as a mans world. TinyLetter Linktree. The writing is ice and lava underneath. I had always known what I wanted. In fact, she wrote a letter to him early on in their marriage, assuring him that she knew he was gay but that she would grin and bear it. What impact do they have on her? Why does it repel her in the contexts of her boyfriend's shirts, the rows of houses, the coming of "the blue smell of spring"? TIME may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. How limiting, how imprecise? I think the dark humour combined with the sense of dread shows in the status update quotes which I noted along the way which should be available below this review. I had loved this world, awfully.

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The narrator is a lecturer at a university unnamed, of course in a mid-size city also unnamed who, having previously studied the poetry of the Maghreb, has found more success as a scholar of the poet Paul Celan. I moved to a low stone cottage on a street of low stone cottages. She had a career as a stage and television star before essentially giving it up to raise their children. TinyLetter Linktree. The form and content was just too flat, pessimistic and removed for me to feel invested. And I do not mean tragic through the substantive content it provides, but tragic through how ridiculous it is in its failure to achieve any stylistic or narrative coherence. Write to Olivia B. Who knows. At first I had a fear of taking the train by myself. Alas, my delight was cut short after the first few pages.