1918-1990

One summer during the Financial Crisis, fourteen-year-old Karthik Raghavan makes deliveries for his father's ailing Indian grocery, but he is secretly cast in a play about the young Leonard Bernstein. Includes author's note.

One summer during the Financial Crisis, fourteen-year-old Karthik Raghavan makes deliveries for his father's ailing Indian grocery, but he is secretly cast in a play about the young Leonard Bernstein.

Chronicles the life of music composer Leonard "Lenny" Bernstein from his childhood in Boston where he enjoyed playing the piano and singing to his debut at Carnegie Hall at twenty-five. Includes biographical profiles of important people in Leonard Bernstein's life.

Explores the different musical works of composer Leonard Bernstein, from his contempory music of "West Side Story" through his "Serenade After Plato's Symposium for Violin and Orchestra".

Features a complete account of the author's twelve-hour interview with Bernstein one year before the classical music personality's death in 1990.

Follows the life of Leonard Bernstein from his childhood in Boston to his first experience conducting the Philharmonic Orchestra in New York at the age of twenty five.

A compilation of essays in which contributors examine the life and music of Leonard Bernstein and his relationship to New York City and the New York Philharmonic, the orchestra he directed between 1943 and 1976. Includes personal recollections and photographs from Bernstein's brother, Burton.