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Don’t forget his work on Broadway.
Don’t forget his work on Broadway.
Mr.Bernstein and I have the same birthday!
Lenny was lucky to live in the times when it was permissible for, if not expected of, famous genius faggots to screw little boys.
When I watch him on youtube conducting the Vienna Philharmonic I am in awe.
One of the great PERFORMERS of all time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDXWK3W477w
Take the time to watch Beethoven’s OTHER 5th.
I really love the music of Leonard and his brother Elmer Bernstein.
American Genius!
Talented but liked to hobnob with racist and marxist radicals.
Today is Carroll Baker Day on TCM but Leonard Bernstein Day was several days ago. Go figure.
He was a brilliant musician, did an enormous amount to expose people to great music - in fact, in my NYC public school, I was lucky enough to be chosen to go to one of the special open rehearsals that he held. Afterwards, he talked to us about the pieces and he was wonderful.
He was also a brilliant composer; West Side Story and Candide, I think, will eventually be considered major contributions to the US operatic repertoire. And On the Town and the others were also great comic operas. (In an opera, theoretically, all dialogue is sung, which is why most musicals don’t make it into that category, but I think that may have to change in the future.)
His politics stank and he got sold on his own legend. And he was always wanting to be in with the in crowd, so when it suddenly became in to be gay, he went that way too. I will say, however, that he did come back to take care of his wife, a brilliant Chilean singer with whom he had two children, when she developed cancer after she left him during the gay phase. I always thought that the trendy 60s and 70s left so much human wreckage in their wake that we will never be able to fully comprehend it. And he was part of that wreckage.
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