Leonard Bernstein

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"The legend of Leonard Bernstein began with the fact that it was unusual for an American to conduct a major American orchestra. On the occasion of his New York Philharmonic debut, filling in for an ailing Bruno Walter, Bernstein was introduced by Bruno Zirato, the orchestra's associate manager, as "a full-fledged American conductor, born and entirely raised in this country." An American conductor was not unique, of course, and Zirato duly emphasized Bernstein's American education. In the 1930s, however, a conductor's education and opportunities could only have come from the European source even if it was located in the United States. The four conductors who had the greatest influence on Bernstein in his conductor's apprenticeship, and were all instrumental in starting his career, were the Greek Dimitri Mitropoulos (1896-1960), the Pole Artur Rodzinski ..."

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