Felicia Montealegre was a stunningly beautiful Chilean stage and television actress making her living in New York. Leonard Bernstein was the wonder boy of the American classical music scene, who had made his spectacular conducting debut with the New York Philharmonic. They met at a party hosted by pianist Claudio Arrau, with whom Montealegre had studied. They were engaged a few months later, but the engagement was broken off after less than a year.
Life With Lenny: Leonard Bernstein's Daughter Explains Her Famous Father : Deceptive Cadence : NPR
Well, one cannotdeny one's sexual proclivities. The man was a genius, no doubt. Tom Cothran was more than just "Leonard Bernstein's lover. I do know he was academically brilliant in his music research. How must he have felt as he fell ill and approached when the "gay disease" was first recognized as AIDS, and so many gay men began dying. He was one of those who always seemed to speak a higher and rarer language than those of us who are merely smart.
For over a decade, Bernstein and his New York Philharmonic Orchestra introduced and popularized classical music to a generation of Baby Boomers. Though I am not musically talented myself, I can appreciate musical genius when I see it -- both my long-term lovers are gifted singers and musicians - and I was immediately impressed by Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein performs at a Young People'sConcert.
Tom Huizenga. Jamie Bernstein can't call her childhood a typical one. Jamie's father was Leonard Bernstein. To mark the centennial , Jamie Bernstein has published Famous Father Girl: A Memoir of Growing Up Bernstein , a frank recollection of family life and the struggle to find herself amid the "blinding light" that was Leonard Bernstein, who died in