One seldom visits Lincoln Heart with out experiencing one thing fantastic, however this week, New Yorkers have been handled to an particularly memorable (and exquisitely New York) Valentine’s Day at David Geffen Corridor. There, Bradley Cooper, Carey Mulligan, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin—beloved music director of the neighboring Metropolitan Opera—convened within the Wu Tsai Theater for a stimulating live performance and dialog based mostly on Maestro, Cooper’s magisterial characteristic movie in regards to the lives, work, and marriage of Leonard and Felicia Montealegre Bernstein. (It’s up for seven Academy Awards at subsequent month’s ceremony, together with greatest image; greatest actor for Cooper, who performs Lenny; and greatest actress for Mulligan, who co-stars as Felicia.)

After all, the setting couldn’t have been extra apt: It was Bernstein himself who helped to inaugurate the previous Philharmonic Corridor (with Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 and the world premiere of his pal Aaron Copeland’s Connotations) on September 23, 1962, when Lincoln Heart first opened; and for many years he lived mere minutes away—within the Dakota, on 72nd Road and Central Park West—whereas serving as music director of the New York Philharmonic. (He additionally died on the Dakota in 1990, at 72, 12 years after Felicia’s dying from most cancers in East Hampton.) Wednesday’s program had members of the present Philharmonic, in addition to particular friends together with Nick Blaemire, Mallory Portnoy, Kate Eastman, Malakai Bayoh, Ann De Renais, Samuel Oladeinde, Philip John Sheffield, and Zachary Boothe (all of whom characteristic within the movie) carry out alternatives from Maestro’s hour-long soundtrack stay—intercut with snatches of remoted dialogue and some scenes from the movie—after which Cooper, Mulligan, and Nézet-Séguin sat down for a dialogue. (Nézet-Séguin served as Maestro’s all-important “conducting advisor.”)