A surreal encounter with Leonard Bernstein
The music great passed away 34 years ago today, on October 14
All journalists have some story about how they ended up in this predicament. Mine involves the music great Leonard Bernstein, who passed on this day 34 years ago, after a long life of amazing successes as a composer, conductor, pianist, and gentle rabble-rouser.
The setting was the Rob…
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