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“The world—this world—is obsessed with you.” So says an interviewer to Leonard Bernstein in his prime and so it was in mid-to-late-twentieth-century American culture, when novelists and essayists and Broadway composers and even great conductors could hold the center of public
BERNSTEIN DANCES AT THE MUSIC CENTER
Leonard Bernstein was a classical music composer, conductor, and educator who also wrote for Broadway and Hollywood, harnessing multimedia attention across the culture—high and low—throughout the second half of the twentieth century. A sensual, exuberant figure on stage and off,