Louis Moreau Gottschalk was a better composer than Leonard Bernstein. Hell, Stephen FOSTER was a better composer than that tired old phony. In fact, it's arguable that Frank Zappa or Barry Manilow could out-write Bernstein. If not for the support from his ivory-tower effetes, Bernstein would have spent his career sweeping up Carnegie Hall.
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Let your personal feelings effect your judgment much? You clearly disliked the man (and he was often a hard man to like) but that aside...yeah I’m sure Manilow and Foster had a ‘Candide’ and ‘West Side Story’ or Chichester Psalms in them. Leonard Bernstein was...a concert pianist of the first rank - he was a virtuoso pianist actually, a conductor of world class, a composer of high accomplishment and a brilliant educator.