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Classical 101If all you know of Leonard Bernstein is the thrilling music from West Side Story, you鈥檙e in for an eye-opening summer.Bernstein was a groundbreaking鈥
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Classical 101You could say that Pluto is the Rodney Dangerfield of planets.Downgraded from 鈥減lanet鈥 to 鈥渄warf planet鈥 in 2006, and with nearly 100 planets discovered鈥
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Classical 101Between Maude Adams in 1905 and Mary Martin in 1954, there was Leonard Bernstein!Adams lives in museums today and Martin on an enchanting TV film. Both鈥
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Classical 101Leonard Bernstein was famous. Not just famous for a musician. Famous, period. As in household name, as in friends with movie stars, as in appearing鈥
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Classical 101Leonard Bernstein was there at the beginning of Yo-Yo Ma's career. And in a special way, Yo-Yo Ma was there at the end of Bernstein's life.In 1962,鈥
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Classical 101It wasn't as if Leonard Bernstein was looking for work.By 1953, at the age of 35, Bernstein had already created two Broadway hits and had been on top of鈥
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Classical 101The year is 1941. War is raging in Europe.Here on the home front, Leonard Bernstein is 23 years old, a student at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music鈥
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Classical 101On Oct. 22, 1983, the Metropolitan Opera threw an all-day bash celebrating its 100th birthday.Singers active and retired, and some in between, were鈥
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Classical 101Conducting is both art and scienceAccording to Robert Krulwich, Leonard Bernstein's conducting can be analyzed scientifically. Krulwich is a Radiolab鈥
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Classical 101Conducting is both art and scienceAccording to Robert Krulwich, Leonard Bernstein's conducting can be analyzed scientifically. Krulwich is a Radiolab鈥