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December 30, 2009
Bernstein Agonistes
Raphael Mostel: “My most searing memory of Bernstein comes from backstage at Avery Fisher Hall, just as Bernstein and his ever-present entourage boarded the elevator. They were vainly reassuring him how great his music was. He broke away from them to ask me, a student at the time, and the only one in the elevator not known to him, whether I thought he had composed anything that would last. I was shocked at how deeply, how profoundly, he doubted he had. Nothing I or anyone else could have said could have rescued him from his personal, private hell.”
Originally posted by Alex Ross from Unquiet Thoughts, ReBlogged by newmusicrebloggers on Dec 30, 2009 at 08:10 PM