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...MUSIC: Bernstein Proves as Immortal as Elvis...
...lasted a little longer in a life that was lived harder and faster than most (mood: appassionato; tempo: allegro con brio), Leonard Bernstein would have turned 75 this week. But the polymath pianist, conductor, composer, television personality, Harvard man, Broadway baby and quintessential New Yorker died in 1990, leaving a hole in the fabric of American musical life that many have found irreparable. In the three years since Bernstein's death, sales of his records have doubled, his compositions have started to win greater respect, and his legend has waxed. It's almost as if the great man had never...
...both a solemnity and a sense of kitsch -- a mixture of concerts and coffee mugs -- that devotees of the King would appreciate. There are performances to his memory in places as disparate as Argentina, the Czech Republic -- Slovakia, India, Britain, Japan and the U.S. -- so many that the Leonard Bernstein Society has issued a calendar of events to keep fans abreast of all the action. In anticipation of the festivities, Sony Classical has been releasing over the past year what it modestly bills as the Royal Edition of Bernstein's recordings -- a 119-disc set drawn from the old Columbia...
Less high-mindedly, the Leonard Bernstein Society has presided over a profusion of Lenniana: Lenny note cards, Lenny umbrellas, Lenny tote bags, Lenny T shirts and Lenny sweats, in addition to authorized editions of his records, books and Harvard lectures. (The paraphernalia does have a pedagogical purpose: proceeds go to the Bernstein Education Through the Arts Fund, established in 1990 to encourage arts education in the schools.) On Wednesday, Bernstein's adopted hometown will honor his legacy when it renames a stretch of West 65th Street near Lincoln Center "Leonard Bernstein Place," putting Bernstein in New York City's street...
...Well," said the reporter, deciding that it was probably not worth the effort needed to describe to Wynn the thousands of interviews Woodward and Bernstein must have done to take down Richard Nixon's presidency. "I'll try not to let it go to my head...