ArtsComment remembers the conductor and educator Maurice Peress (1930 – 2017), who collaborated with the musical legends Leonard Bernstein and Duke Ellington, on what would have been his 88th birthday.

ArtsComment remembers the conductor and educator Maurice Peress (1930 – 2017), who collaborated with the musical legends Leonard Bernstein and Duke Ellington, on what would have been his 88th birthday.