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Book: Dinner with Lenny: The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein
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  1. Jonathan Cott _ Dinner with Lenny: The Last

    WOW!" A GALVANIZED Igor Stravinsky reportedly exclaimed after listening to Leonard Bernstein's astonishing recording of The Rite of Spring-a still-unsurpassed performance that Columbia Records captured more than fifty years ago in a single inspired and electrically charged recording session on January 20, 1958, in New York City.
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  2. Jonathan Cott _ Dinner with Lenny: The Last

    {In 1945, the producer Hal Wallis of Paramount Pictures seriously discussed the idea of making a "biopic" in which Bernstein would have played Tchaikovsky and Greta Garbo would have played Baroness von Meck, the composer's patroness.}
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  3. Jonathan Cott _ Dinner with Lenny: The Last

    she also thought it would be helpful to send Bernstein a copy of a book of conversations I had done with the pianist Glenn Gould, who, it turned out, was one of Bernstein's musical heroes, as well as a close and adored friend. It was a long wait, but at last, in September of 1989, Maggie telephoned to give me the good news that I had passed Harry Kraut's audition, that Bernstein had read my book, and that he had not only agreed to give me an interview but had also suggested that we do so over dinner at his country home in Connecticut on November 20."
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