See and hear the new extended trailer for ‘Maestro’

PLEASE HELP THE EAR. IF YOU LIKE A CERTAIN BLOG POST, SPREAD THE WORD. FORWARD A LINK TO IT OR, SHARE IT or TAG IT (not just “Like” it) ON FACEBOOK. Performers can use the extra exposure to draw potential audience members to an event. And you might even attract new readers and subscribers to the blog.

By Jacob Stockinger

If — like The Ear — you are really looking forward to seeing “Maestro”(below)  and can hardly wait for it to arrive, you will want to see the newly released extended preview or trailer.

The bio-pic about the late American conductor, composer, pianist and educator Leonard Bernstein being in love has been acclaimed at festivals and received standing ovations around the world. Film greats Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg were involved in making it.

“Maestro” — which runs 2 hours and 9 minutes — opens in select theaters in the U.S. on Nov. 22.

Then it comes to Netflix on Dec. 20.

And the soundtrack — which includes the music of Mahler whom Bernstein help to rediscover —  will be released soon on the prestigious Deutsche Grammophon label.

Forget the silly brouhaha about whether Bradley Cooper — who wrote, directed and stars in the film — should have used a prosthetic nose to portray Lenny. It was a move that Lenny’s children approved of and it works even though some critics said the actor should have been the same ethnicity as the characters.

Cooper also practiced a certain way of breathing and talking, and took conducting lessons from Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

And to see and hear his portrayal is to be amazed at how closely he resembles Lenny.

And yes, if you ware wondering, it definitely does not ignore the gay side of Bernstein.

Just take a look and a listen.

The visuals and the music whet your appetite for more, much more.

Here is some of it found of the British radio station ClassicFM: 

https://www.classicfm.com/composers/bernstein-l/maestro-official-trailer-bradley-cooper-biopic/

And for more background, here is the movie’s Wikipedia entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maestro_(2023_film)

What you think?

The Ear wants to hear.

---

Posted in Classical music
Tags: #BlogPost, #BlogPosting, #ClassicFM, #FacebookPost, #FacebookPosting, #YouTubevideo, acclaim, America, American, Arts, audience, background, Beethoven, Bernstein, bio-pic, blog, breathing, British, Chamber music, Chile, choral music, cinemas, Classical music, composer, Concert, concerto, conductor, critic, critical acclaim, Deutsche Grammophon, DG, educator, English, entry, Facebook, festival, film, gay, hear, homosexual, Jacob Stockinger, Jew, Jewish, Lenny, Leonard Bernstein, LGBT, LGBTQ, link, Love, Ludwig van Beethoven, Madison, Maestro, Mahler, Marriage, Martin Scorsese, Met, Metropolitan Opera, movie, Music, Netflix, nose, opera, Orchestra, Pianist, Piano, portrayal, Poster, premiere, preview, prosthetic, racial stereotype, Radio, recorded, recording, see, share, soundtrack, standing ovation, stereotype, Steven Spielberg, straight, streaming, symphony, tag, talking, The Ear, the Met, theaters, think, trailer, U.S., UK, United States, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music, University of Wisconsin–Madison, visual, vocal music, wait, Wikipedia, Wisconsin, world, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, YouTube