Overview

• The New York Philharmonic will play excerpts from the Oscar-nominated film 'Maestro', based on the life of former music director Leonard Bernstein, on February 14.
• Bradley Cooper, the star and director of 'Maestro', will participate in a post-performance conversation at Lincoln Center's David Geffen Hall.
• Metropolitan Opera music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who coached Cooper for the movie and led music for the soundtrack, will conduct the performance in his New York Philharmonic debut.
• 'Maestro' was nominated for seven Oscars, including for best picture and best actor for Cooper.
• The program will include excerpts from 'West Side Story', 'Candide', 'On the Town', 'Trouble in Tahiti', 'A Quiet Place', 'Chichester Psalms' and Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2 'The Age of Anxiety' and Symphony No. 3 'Kaddish.'