“Any great work of art revives and readapts times and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world–the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.” – LEONARD BERNSTEIN
36-year-old composer Leonard Bernstein, holding musical score with lighted auditorium behind him. He has written two symphonies, a song cycle, jazzy ballet Fancy Free, two Broadway shows (on the Town, Wonderful Town) and is preparing a musical of Candide. (Photo by Gordon Parks//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)
