Best Of: Making 'Maestro' / A Restaurateur's Journey

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🗓️ 6 January 2024

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Summary

Bradley Cooper talks about writing, directing, and starring in the new film Maestro, in which he portrays conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein. Also with us is conducting consultant Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. The film focuses on Bernstein's music and his relationship with his wife, including the friction caused by his affairs with men.

Also, we hear from restaurateur Rose Previte, author of the new cookbook Maydān: Recipes from Lebanon and Beyond.

And Justin Chang reviews Memory, starring Peter Sarsgaard and Jessica Chastain.

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0:15.0	From W.H.Y. in Philadelphia, I'm Tanya Mosley with Fresh Air Weekend.
0:21.0	Today Bradley Cooper talks about writing, directing, and starring in the new film Maestro.
0:26.4	He plays conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein.
0:29.8	He's joined by conducting consultant Yannik Nasei Sagan.
0:34.0	Yannik conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra
0:36.3	and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.
0:38.7	The film focuses on Bernstein's music
0:41.4	and his relationship with his wife,
0:43.2	including the friction caused by his affairs with men.
0:46.4	Also we'll hear from restaurateur Rose Prevet,
0:49.7	author of the new cookbook My Don,
0:52.0	recipes from Lebanon and beyond.
0:54.8	And Justin Chang reviews memory, the new film starring Peter Sarsgaard and
0:59.4	Jessica Chastain.
1:02.0	That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend.
1:05.0	This message comes from NPR sponsor Sony Pictures Classics, presenting Freud's last session.
1:11.6	September 3rd, 1939, a monumental session
1:15.4	with two of the greatest minds of the 20th century
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