Dinner with Lenny: The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (547 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199858446 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Leonard Bernstein was arguably the most highly esteemed, influential, and charismatic American classical music personality of the twentieth century. Bernstein comes alive again, with vodka glass in hand, singing, humming, and making pointed comments on a wide array of topics, from popular music ("the Beatles were the best songwriters since Gershwin"), to great composers ("Wagner was always in a psychotic frenzy. Now, in Dinner with Lenny, Cott provides a complete account of this remarkable dialogue in which Bernstein discourses with disarming frankness, humor, and intensity on matters musical, pedagogical, political, psychological, spiritual, and the unabashedly personal. He was a madman, a megalomaniac"), and politics (lamenting "the brainlessness, the mindlessness, the carelessness, and the heedlessness of the Reagans of the world"). If you can do that, you're a conductorand if you can't, you're not. Conductor, composer, pianist, writer, educator, and human rights activist, Bernstein truly led a life of Byronic intensity--passionate, risk-taking, and convention-breaking.In November 1989, just a year before his death, Bernstein invited writer Jonathan Cott to his country home in Fairfield, Connecticut for what turned out to be his last major inte
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A life in love Ronald M. Johnson I had often though Lenny was over-the-top, but I was wrong. As demonstrated in this loving book, it was I who was too short.. 80-20 Split 80% new insoghts; 20% self-servingnot bad for a genius! Lenny knew who he was. Well written, engaging and so Lenny.. ""And then this white butterfly flew in from God knows where"" according to Foster Corbin. In this Leonard Bernstein's last interview, he tells Jonathan Cott that there are some things he is not going to talk about: he does not have favorite orchestras, favorite composers, favorite symphonies, favorite kinds of food, favorite forms of sex. The rest of the world is fair game. Then in an interview that goes for several