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>I grew up enchanted by that old ham Leonard
>Bernstein's TV shows. You mean that sort of thing?
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>Doug
This sounds great. These are on DVD aren't they? Bernstein has already gotten to my eight year old, who loves West Side Story. I can see her someday coming to Shakespeare via the Jets and the Sharks.
>Leonard Bernstein came of age artistically as television became a
>part of everyday life, and he immediately saw its potential as a
>means to share and explore music with the mass audience. Through his
>imaginative programming ideas and his own engaging presence (most
>memorably, in the award-winning Young People's Concerts with the New
>York Philharmonic) he made even the most rigorous elements of
>classical music an adventure in which everyone could join. A
>generation of Americans appreciates music because of Bernstein. That
>he achieved this without ever seeming to patronize or lecture his
>audience only reaffirmed how personal and how deeply felt his
>convictions were. In 1967, Bernstein wrote, "Life without music is
>unthinkable, music without life is academic. That is why my contact
>with music is a total embrace."