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Leonard Bernstein
Bernard Levin talks to Leonard Bernstein.\n\nLike Lord Byron, Leonard Bernstein awoke one morning to find himself famous. At 25, he substituted for Bruno Walter and conducted the New York Philharmonic entirely without rehearsal.\n\nBernstein sees himself as a composer who conducts, and wants 'to keep on trying to be, in the full sense of that wonderful word, a musician... '. He has written everything from song cycles to symphonies but is probably still best known as the creator of West Side Story.
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