On Valentine’s Day, Bradley Cooper strode onto the stage of Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall, flush with exuberance in his tux. “What we’re going to watch is an experiment,” he told the audience, which included Candice Bergen, Spike Lee, and Ellen Burstyn. Out came Yannick Nézet-Séguin—Cooper’s conducting consultant for “Maestro,” his Oscar-nominated bio-pic of Leonard Bernstein—who led the New York Philharmonic in lush musical selections from the film, sprinkled with audio and video clips. The evening, “Orchestrating Maestro: Music and Conversation,” was presented by a curious pair: the Philharmonic and Netflix. Cooper returned for the conversation, alongside Nézet-Séguin and Carey Mulligan, his co-star and fellow Oscar nominee. “It’s hard to get my head around, honestly,” Cooper gushed, of the orchestra. “I was, like, scared to even talk to them years ago. They were, like, ‘What is this guy doing here? Are you going to do a movie about Leonard Bernstein? O.K., you’re going to come, like, once.’ ‘No, I’ll be here, like, five times a week for four years.’ ”
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