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How Good Was Leonard Bernstein?

- Abstract

In character he was as bad as he could get away with; as a conductor, uneven; but as a composer, more interesting than is generally thought.



About the Author

Terry Teachout is COMMENTARY’s critic-at-large and the drama critic of the Wall Street JournalSatchmo at the Waldorf, his first play, runs through November 4 at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut.