Nøkkelord Conductor

Denne fryktløse kjærlighetshistorien skildrer det kompliserte, livslange forholdet mellom musikklegenden Leonard Bernstein og Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein.

En internasjonalt fremgangsrik dirigent avbryter dramatisk sin karriere og trekker seg ensomt tilbake til sin barndoms by i Nord-Sverige. Det går ikke lang tid før det lille samfunnet får vite om det. Han blir spurt om å komme for å høre på det lokale koret som øver i samfunnshuset hver torsdag. Han har vanskelig for å si nei, for det eneste de ønsker er jo bare at han skal stikke innom en gang, og kanskje gi dem noen gode råd. Han bestemmer seg, og etter dette blir ingen ting som før i den lille byen. Koret utvikler seg og vokser. Han får venner og fiender. Og ikke minst, han møter kjærligheten.

Megumi Noda, or "Nodame" is a piano student at Momogaoka College of Music. An extremely talented pianist who wants to be a preschool teacher, she prefers playing by ear rather than reading the music score. She is messy and disorganized. Shinichi Chiaki is Momogaoka's top student. Born into a musical family, he is talented in piano and violin and has secret ambitions to become a conductor. An arrogant multi-lingual perfectionist who once lived abroad in the music capitals of the world as a young boy, he is trapped in Japan because of his childhood phobia of airplanes and the ocean. They meet by accident and sparks fly!

Ever since gifted conductor Natsume’s wife and daughter left him five years ago, he has isolated himself from the music scene. Then one day, he decides to return to Japan for the first time in decades to conduct a small town orchestra and return to his estranged daughter, Hibiki, who loathes him and his music. Now he must try to thaw a relationship with his daughter frozen in time for five years, and learn to be a father.

A highly accomplished conductor decides to leave her life in New York behind to take up the challenge of reviving a struggling orchestra.

All aboard for the adventures of Choo Choo Bob and his wacky friends as they visit railroads and museums all over the country, sing songs with each other or with guest musicians such as Ozomatli and Haley Bonar, and visit Tinyland, the small world located on Choo Choo Bob's train layout.