Dinner with Lenny: The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein

by Jonathan Cott

Book Overview

Leonard Bernstein was arguably the most highly esteemed, influential, and charismatic American classical music personality of the twentieth century. Conductor, composer, pianist, writer, educator, and human rights activist, Bernstein truly led a life of Byronic intensity--passionate, risk-taking, and convention-breaking.

In November 1989, just a year before his death, Bernstein invited writer Jonathan Cott to his country home in Fairfield,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199858446
• ISBN13: 9780199858446
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.3"