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Leonard Bernstein with members of the New York Philharmonic rehearsing for a television broadcast, circa 1958. Bert Bial, New York Philharmonic Archives. New York Philharmonic Archives/CC BY 2.5
Leonard Bernstein became a living legend in his lifetime. Numerous biographies of him appeared before he passed away in 1990.
The first of these was written by his sister, Shirley Bernstein. In “Making Music: Leonard Bernstein,” she relates the story of her brother’s earliest memory.
Andrew Benson Brown is the outreach director for the Society of Classical Poets and the author of “Legends of Liberty,” an epic poem about the American Revolution.
