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Leonard Bernstein (An Appreciation)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Extract

We have no sacred monsters anymore, no larger-than-life Stravinskys whose every gesture fires the collective imagination. Even our performing artists are now sold as regular guys, while American saints are fundamentalist hacks snatching expensive haloes from each other.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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