Musicians and orchestra executives, current and retired, salute the BSO’s longest-serving music director, citing his prodigious memory, athletic energy and inspirational leadership that transformed the orchestra into global prominence.
The Berkshire Eagle’s classical music critics over the last century is a short list of long stints. Jay Rosenfeld, who started the job in 1919, did it until 1975, after
In addition to previewing and reviewing concerts, Andrew L. Pincus wrote a popular roundup of news items and compiled them in a regular Eagle feature called Rambling About Tanglewood. This
Eagle music critic Andrew L. Pincus reflected on the life and legacy of Leonard Bernstein in this piece published Oct. 16, 1990, in The Berkshire Eagle. Bernstein died Oct. 14,