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Article: Leonard Bernstein Celebration.(Lincoln Center, New York, NY)
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- July 7, 1998
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* "Bernstein: Composer and Champion," conducted by Kurt Masur * "Literally: Bernstein," conducted by Jonathan Sheffer * "The Unknown Bernstein," conducted by Michael Barrett * All Our Yesterdays and Bernstein Dances, performed by the Hamburg Ballet * Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York City, July 7-26
Leonard Bernstein would have been 80 on August 25, and if retrospectives of his career seem a bit premature less than eight years after his death, the reasons for this summer's celebrations of this extraordinary phenomenon on our native cultural scene are easy to understand: We have not yet come to grips with Bernstein or sorted out our responses. He was ...