Tag: Bradley Cooper

  • ONCE, ONLY

    ONCE ONLY War was in the air. It was the leadup to the First Gulf War. Armies were poised to invade Kuwait, and the news was alarming for many of us. What would happen? Would it spread? Would war come to us? At that point in 1991, we were blessedly innocent of the prospects of…

  • MAESTRO: How Bradley Cooper Gets Bernstein Wrong

    Movie Notes September 25, 2021. We were emerging from the COVID lockdowns. The Bellingham Symphony (BSO), a fine regional ensemble under the direction of Yaniv Attar, had been producing online concerts, but however fetchingly they are done online concerts are not the same as a live performance. Now, for the first time since the pandemic…