City Lights: Celebrating Leonard Bernstein’s 100th Birthday; Atlanta Shortsfest; And More

Friday on “City Lights with Lois Reitzes”:

• 1:10: Contributor Scott Stewart joins Lois Reitzes to talk about the “choral” works of Leonard Bernstein. This conversation is part of the 100th anniversary celebration of the birth of composer, conductor, and more.
• 28:18: Clarinetist Alcides Rodriguez, who plays for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, joins Reitzes to talk about that and growing up with El Sistema in Venezuela as well as music education today in the United States.
• 36:39: The Atlanta Shortsfest, a short-film festival, is in full swing. Reitzes talks to one of the directors of the festival, Cameron Munson, as well as Jake Bulgarino and Angelo Jackson, co-director and subject of the film “Halter Off,” respectively.

Note: This post originally misstated the name of the director of “Halter Off.” It has been updated to reflect this.