On the road & off the record with Leonard Bernstein : my years with the exasperating genius

The Resource On the road & off the record with Leonard Bernstein : my years with the exasperating genius
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On the road & off the record with Leonard Bernstein : my years with the exasperating genius
Title remainder
my years with the exasperating genius
Statement of responsibility
Charlie Harmon ; foreword by Harold Prince
Title variation
On the road and off the record with Leonard Bernstein
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Language
eng
Summary
"Leonard Bernstein reeked of cheap cologne and obviously hadn't showered, shaved, or slept in a while. When he greeted his new assistant with, "What are you drinking?" the hapless hireling was certain that the maestro must be drunk as well. Charlie Harmon was hired to manage the day-to-day details of Bernstein's life. There was one additional responsibility: make sure Bernstein met the deadline for an opera commission. But things kept getting in the way: the centenary of Igor Stravinsky, intestinal parasites picked up in Mexico, teaching all summer in Los Angeles, a baker's dozen of young men, plus depression, exhaustion, insomnia, and cutthroat games of anagrams. Was the opera ever written? For four years, Charlie saw Bernstein every day--as his social director, gatekeeper, valet, music copyist, and itinerant orchestra librarian. He packed (and unpacked) Bernstein's umpteen pieces of luggage; got the Maestro to his concerts; kept him occupied while changing planes in Zurich, Anchorage, Tokyo, or Madrid, and learned how to make small talk with mayors, ambassadors, a chancellor, a queen, and a Hollywood legend or two. How could anyone absorb all those people and places? Because there was music: late-night piano duets, or the Maestro's command to accompany an audition, and, by the way, the greatest orchestras in the world. Charlie did it, and this is what it was like, told for the first time."--
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Dust jacket
Biography type
individual biography
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DLC
Dewey number
  • 780.92
  • B
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illustrations
Index
no index present
LC call number
ML410.B566
LC item number
H37 2018
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • bibliography
  • discographies
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