TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gruen,John
AU  - Heyman,Ken
TI  - The private world of Leonard Bernstein
AV  - ML410.B566 G8
U1  - O 780.92  20
PY  - 1968///
CY  - New York
PB  - Viking Press
KW  - Bernstein, Leonard,
KW  - Composers
KW  - America
KW  - Biography
N1  - "A Ridge Press Book."
N2  - " ... Conductor of the nation's premier orchestra, the New York Philharmonic; composer of concert music and scores for the popular musical theater; virtuoso pianist ... [in this book] Mr. Bernstein is seen as only few have been privileged to see him: offstage among his family and friends, working, playing, contemplating his origins, dealing with the hectic present, speculating about the future ... [the] author spent a summer in Italy with the vacationing Bernsteins, then observed the amazingly crowded routines of their life in New York and Connecticut ... [offers] an intimate, offstage view of Leonard bernstein, his family, and his friends. With a playlet, monologues, dialogues, reflections, revelations, and predictions. Leonard Bernstein talks with charm, humor, unsparing honesty, and total recall about the phenomenon of Leonard Bernstein ..."--Inside flaps.
ER  -