Just back from class, where no one ever heard of VanCliburn (mentioned it because this is the 50th anniversary of his winning the first Tschaikovsky Competition in Moscow, one of our few international happy moments in 1958, since they had sputnik and we didn’t, and other diplomatic deals were not working). As it turned out, none of them ever heard of Lennie Bernstein either, although there were a couple of faint glimmers when I mentioned West Side Story and Candide. And, of course, his being invited to Berlin to do the Beethoven Ninth after the wall came down.But then, they don’t remember the wall and I think don’t believe there was ever a problem.
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