July 09, 2009

Bandleaders #5


Leonard Bernstein

This was posted by Tom Sutpen

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1 comments so far:

Fred said...

I know he may be one of the most controversial figures in post-war classical music (some loved him, others derided him as a hack), but I will always have fondness for Bernstein and his series of Saturday afternoon concerts for children. My mom dragged my brothers and me to a performance of Holst's The Planets and it turned me on to classical music, watching him conduct a full orchestra from front row center. I owe a great deal of my appreciation for classical music to those concerts in general, and that specific one.

July 09, 2009 9:38 PM

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