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Quotation by John Mauceri
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Conversations About Bernstein ed. William Westbrook Burton, Oxford University Press (1995)Related Subjects
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Whenever [Leonard Bernstein] entered or exited a country he would fill in on his passport form not composer or conductor, but musician. Of course people in the press spent a lot of Lenny's life telling him what he should have done; he should have been a concert pianist, he should have composed more.... And people wouldn't let him live his own life. But he created his own career, in his own image.
John Mauceri (b. 1945), U.S. conductor, composer. Conversations About Bernstein, p. 79, ed. William Westbrook Burton, Oxford University Press (1995).
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