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“Life without music is unthinkable. Music without life is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace”—echoing the cry in Schiller’s “Ode to Joy,� Seid umschlugen, Millionen! (“You millions, I embrace you!�).
The president declined to attend the premiere, but Bernstein nevertheless received Nixon’s highest accolade when, on the Watergate Tapes, the president is heard calling the composer a “son of a bitch.�
Conductor, composer, pianist, writer, educator, lecturer, television host, human rights and peace activist, Leonard Bernstein was his own one-person Gesamtkunstwerk�
