The Leonard Bernstein Letters (Yale, $38). A collection of 650 letters to and (mostly) from the conductor-composer. The list of correspondents is spectacularly wide-ranging–it includes everyone from Aaron Copland to Harpo Marx–and the contents shine an unsparingly bright light on Bernstein’s ever-complex interior life. Indispensable reading for anyone interested in American music in the twentieth century (TT).
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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